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I have zpplied the foregoing rule to 
two cafes, and fhall make a few oblerva- 
tions thereon. 
Cafe 1.—A man and his wife, and one 
child, aged two years. 
Man’s wages per week, 9S. 3. woman 
earns per ditto, 3s. ; total, 12s. 
By thetable, if bread fells at 2s. 11d. 
a galion, the weekly income fhould be 
14s. td.3 the parifh will therefore allow 
rs. 1d. 
Proof 1.—Bread per week for man, 
t4ib ; ditto for woman, 12lb. ; ditto for 
~one child, slb.; total 31lbs. bread, at 
4d. per Ib., is 108. 4d. 
The difference between the price of 
' bread and the allowance is 2s. 9d. 3 mul- 
tiplied by 52, is 7}. 3s. per annum. 
Now no provificn has been made for 
houle-rent (1s. per week), 21. 108. 5 
cloaths, 21. 1cs. 3 foap, candles, firing, 
thread, &c., rl. ros. ; total, 61. ros.— 
No beer has been reckoned jor in this ac- 
count. 
This appears to be, and is, in fome 
cafes, an ample allowance; but perhaps 
’ for fix months in the year the woman can 
earn only 1s. or 1s. 6d. per week, and 
‘fometimes little or nothing ; yet fhe is ftill 
rated at 3s. The rating of wages, or 
fixing the price of a man’s weekly Jabour 
at gs., ard making him bring into the ac- 
count the excefs of his earnings above g9s., 
is a difcouragement to Jabour; for he 
cares little whether he works or not, 
It 
would be the fame if be was rated higher. 
_I would do this ; let him work by the 
great or otherwile ; allow him to retain 
his earnings above 10s. for his own ufe ; 
and let that be the nominal price of labour, 
at which rate, at all evenis, he fhould be 
paid. Add the earnings of his family, 
without bringing into the account the ex- 
—c¢efs above ros., and let the parifh make 
up the deficiency b-tween this aggrezate 
fum.and the price of bread; then will you 
encourage labour, and give energy to in- 
_d@uftry. 
Cafe 2—A man and his wife, and 
_fevea children, five under feven yezrs of 
age, the other two ten and-twelve. 
_ Man earns per week, 93.3 wife, with 
fo young a family, canearn but litcle, fay, 
as. 3 eldeft boy, 35. ; the other boy, 
(23. 6d. 3 total, 15. 6d. : 
|. Bread at the fame price, the earnings 
‘ought to be al. 13s. 7d 5 the parifh will 
‘therefore allow 18s. 1d. 
* Proof 2.—Bread for man, ralbs. ; ditto 
for woman, 12!bs.; foreldeit boys, 24lbs. ; 
for five youngeft children, z2slbs ; total, 
7sibs., at ad. der lb., is ass, 
owe = 
ae 
S.beme of Relief for the Poor. 
[Sept. {, 
Difference between the price of bread 
and the allowance is_8s. 7d. & 52== 
22]. 6s, 4d. 
Here I think our table is erroneous, as 
the cutgoines cannot exceed 70s. above 
the it caie; leaving therefore an excels of 
12]. 6s. 4d. in the Jabourer’s favour, 
whereby a man witha large family of fmall 
children is in a better fituation than one 
with a fmall one. In thisand the preced- 
ing cafe, if the price of other provifions 
be cheap, a labourer can live tolerably 
comfo:table, and allow himfelf a {mail 
quantity of animal food and beer. But 
if other provifions be relatively dear, then 
his wants can be fupplied by bread only, 
which ought to be of the beft kind ; the 
reverfe of which is often the cafe, as, if 
it is net mixed with other ingredien's, it 
ge erally happens that the quality of corn 
is bad when its quantity is fearce. 
I have only to hope, that, by circulat- 
ing this Table among your intelligent 
Correfpondents, a teniperate difcuffion 
may arile thereupon, and its utility and 
defects be calmly confidered, and that one 
uniform, krown, and approved rule, be 
pointed out—a medium between an extra- 
vagant and indifcriminate mode of relief, 
and a pitiful and fcanty one. 
This may be called an Hereulanean [a- 
bour: but if we can render the exiftence 
of one human being lefs miferable, our 
time will not be mis-{fpent, nor our exer- 
tions ill beftowed. Your’s, &c. 
Fuly 5, 1800. G. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AM much furprized that more invefti- 
gation has not taken place relative to 
the high price of provifions of ali forts.— 
Common fenfe fhould tell us, that when a 
thing :s dear through fcareity, it is te be 
feen by the fuoply of the market. When 
bread was dear in France about eleven 
year's ago, the figns of {carcity were very 
spparent. I have often feen the flour- 
market almoit empty, not having 20 facks 
where there ufed to be 2000, ‘and the 
bakers difputing who fhould have firit, and 
watching its arrival night and day. My 
fervant-cirl has often been obliged to wait 
from five in the morning till mid-day, and 
fometimes till three or four in the after- 
noon, before fhe could get one lolitary loaf 
of four pounds weight 5; yet with ail this 
real {carcity, bread was only twice its 
ufual price, and not half fo dear as it is 
now in England. I mean to fay, Sir, ir 
the moft uneguiyecal terms, that when 
there 
