202 
A year’s expenditure in provifions at the Shrew/- 
bury Houfe of Indufiry, taken from the accourts 
of the year 1789. 

Be ged. 
Provifions inthe flores at the com- 
mencementof the year’saccount 82 15 0 
Butcher’s meat - alae 6g 
Garden ftuff - - 573 7 0 
Flour - = 5 RL is Qos 
Peafe = aS cra at 
Cheefe, milk, and butter - 99 3.9 
atmeal, falt, andgroceries - 50 12 6 
Malt, fugar, and hops for brewing 154 7 © 
Provifions rémaining in the IAPS LUO 
~ ftores at-the end of the year 56 14 © 
Sri Ieee ete 
Nett expenditure - 1359 2 9 


The average number of poor in the 
houle that year was 324, to which is tobe 
added, the fteward, matrons, baker, and 
hired overfeers, amounting-to 8 more, and 
making ‘a total of 332. If the above 
fum be divided by 332, it will be 
found to amount to 41. 1s. 1odd. per head 
perannum, or rs. 644. per head perweek*, 
With refpe& to the other ground of 
imputation—my having ftated in my 
correfpondence with the Rev. Mr. How- 
lett, that out of ninety-one children born 
in the houfe, only four had died, at the 
age of two months ;—I have only to add, 
that no /eparate regifler was then kept 
of deaths. They were inferted 4n a co- 
lumn of the gczerg/ regifter of all the poor 
yeceived into, or born in thehoufe. I 
examined thatregifter, and no more chil- 
dren’s deaths at that age were recorded 
there. I was not inattentive tomy duty 
as a2 dire@or,-and noother inftance came 
to my knowledge during the period of 
my fitting atthe board. But as it has 
fince appeared that the fecretary was 1n- 
accurate in the keeping of that general 
reoifter, I do, as I betore obferved, ac- 
knowledge the poffibility of an emifion. 
T fhoula be afhamed to trouble your read - 
ers with all this detail, if Idid not really 
fhink it an object of much importance, 
that the compzrative falubrity of houtes 
of induftry, properly conitruéted and 
gonduéted, faould be demonttrated ; and 
particularly, that parifhes fhould not be 
led into fo capital an error, with regard 


* In the fourth edition of my. pamphlet, 
the ftatement of the average number of poor 
in the houfe was copied verbatim from the 
firft edition, and of courfe referred to the year 
ninety-one. In ninety four, the average 
number as ftated in my letter of November 
laft, was 364.—So ‘ealily is this difference 
reconciled.” bs ene: 
: Hiftory of Afironomy for 1798, 
to the expence at which their poor may 
be well provided for. 
And now, Sir, having, I truft, by a 
fair. and true ftatement of fatts, repelled 
the injuyicus imputation faftened upon . 
me in Mr. Good’s differtation, I have 
very little more to fay to that gentleman. 
I cannot, upon the moft rigid re-examin- 
ation, find a fingle fy]able in my firk. 
letter, publifhed in your magazine for 
November, that could have given caufe 
or provocation for that petulant «* phrafe- 
ology” Mr. Gord chofe to adopt in his 
reply. Perhaps I had judged better if 
I had deemed that reply unworthy of 
notice. It might have convinced me 
that my opponent was incapable of that 
liberal and manly ccnduét, which leads 
the ¢andid difputant to retraét a miftake, 
Mr. Good, by artfully confounding 
dates, by ingenioufly—not ingenuou/ly— 
amputating paragraphs and fentences, and 
then combining the disjointed members, 
has produced a monfter of his own erea- 
tion. I will not retail his charge of im- 
proper language, but I will affure him, 
that if ever I fhould be fo unfortunate as 
to be again involved in difcuffion with an 
opporent, who thus contends not fer 
truth but victory, I will, for his fake, 
immediately withdraw from the conteff. 
I now take my leave of him, with an 
humble but cheerful hope, that, fafe un- 
der the broad fhield of general candor, - 
I fhal] remain unhurt by the feeble fhafts 
of individual detragtion, With a ju& 
fenfe of my obligations to you, Sir, 
I remain, your’s, &c. 
J. Woop. 
Shrewfbury, Merch 16, 1799. 
neg 
Fox the Monihly Magazine. 
History of AsTRONOMY for the year 
6, [1793] read at the commencement 
cf the fitting of the COLLEGE of 
FRANCE, 
feven, by JeROME LALANDE, Infpec- 
tor and Dean of the COLLEGE, aygd 
eacicnt Diredtor of the Obfixvatory. 
Ae company permits me, for the 
| tenth time, to entertain the pub- 
lic with the progrefs ofa (ciencewhich has 
occupied my attentign for fifty years . 
paft; it is a fatisfaction to me that EF 
have to announce matter ftill more in- 
terefting than at the laft time ; and firft, 
the end ef the moft confiderable operation, 
the admeafurement of the earth, or of 
9° and two thrds of the meridian, from 
Dunkirk to Barcelona. 
From 
oo 
[April 
tke 29th Brumaire, year - 

