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the advance that has taken place in many 
articles of provifion fince that pericd, will 
not think that ftatement erroneous, or in- 
credible. At the prefent time butcher’s 
meat, bread, and many other items, are 
confiderably dearer at Norwich than at 
Shrewfbury ; and the poor at Norwich 
are zow ted for one fhilling and eleven 
ence each per week: yet that itatement 
in the Shrew{bury account, together with 
one other of leis moment—that only two 
children out of nincty-one bern in the 
houfe, had died therein wmhin two months 
after their birth—-Mr. Goecd confliders as 
fufficient ground for the following fevere 
ceniure :—‘* Such inaccuracies fhould be 
avoided, becauie they tend to difcredit a 
whole book, on whatever fubje@, and 
with whatever ability it may be com- 
piled.”"—-I can aflure Mr. Good, that the 
faét refpeCting provifions, was correctly 
ftated from actual experiment made by 
¥ery intelligent. gentlemen then in the 
direction ; nor after what I have above 
adduced, will 1t appear at all improbable. 
Our butchers meat was purchafed great- 
ly under the price Mr. Good has ftated ; 
and, at the prefent hour, evr buthel of 
wheat, which cofts feven fhillings, will 
produce 80 pounds of very good bread. 
Mr. Good calculates the coft of that ar- 
ticle, at twopence per pound. With re- 
fpect to the other particular—the numbe 
ef infants born in the houfe, who died 
there within two months after their birth-- 
IT admit that it is very poffible the fe-, 
cretary might have omitted regiftering 
one or more deaths. Iknow, however, 
from my own perfonal obfervation whilit 
in the Direction, that the general pre- 
fervation of their lives, during the two 
months after parturition, had been very 
remarkable. Nor is it fo ** miraculous,” 
when it is confidered that the mothers 
were generally taken from the abodes of 
fiith, wretchednefs and mifery ; ledged in 
warm and comfortable apartments; at- 
tended by nurfes, and provided with every 
thing that their condition required. The 
cireumftance by no means admits of a 
comparifon with the mortality of a whole 
diftrist. And if in the whole of the Pays 
de Vaud, the proportion is one if §9, is 
it fo incredible that in ome houle, with 
thefe advantages, only two fhould have 
died at two.months old out of gt? which 
was the faét I ftaied. 
- Another miftake of Mr. Goon’s Iam 
afittle iurprized at. He prefumes, that 
both at Norwich and Shrewfbury, a very 
confiderable diminution in the number of 
ia 
the poor im their refpettive heufes had 
a 
Mr. Wood’s Reply to Mr. Good on the Poor. 
[ Nov. 
taken place between 1789 and 1794; and 
on tlris unfounded pre/umption, calculates 
the expence per head at Shrewfbury for 
the latter year. It fo happened indeed, 
that at Norwich, there were 300 fewer in 
1792 than in 1789: but in 1794, the 
numbers were again advanced from 1141 
which they are ftated to have been in 
792, to 1481; and at Shrewfbury, 
from 324 in 1789, to 364in 1794. The 
events of the laft feven years have not 
been calculated te diminifh the number. 
of thofe poor who became chargeable to 
their parifhes, or the expence of their 
fupport. At Norwich, their difburfements 
in 1789 amounted to 17,486]. 19s. 11d. 
In 1797, to 25,5161. 7s. 8d. which great 
additicnal expence has been incurred by 
the increafé of what they call their out- 
door allowances, together with their pay 
to militia men’s families. i 
Mr. Goop then would have no juft 
caufe to complain, if I was to retort his 
charge and fay—** Such inaccuracies fhould 
be avoided, becaufe they tend to difcredit a 
whole book; cn whatever fubjedt, and 
with whatever ability it may be compiled.” 
But though I with him to feel that he has 
failed a little in point of liberality, I 
very readily admit the value ef his pub- 
lication, which is written with much 
judgment and general impartiality ; con-. 
tains many ufeiul fuggeftions, and is 
untingtured with thofe preconceived_ 
groundiefs prejudices, that have diferaced 
man, 4ate pamphlets on this fubjec. 
_ J. Woop. 
Shy -vsbury, Now. 19, 1798. 
P: Sin the printed account of the houfe 
of indy#ry eftablifhed at Dublin, the average. 
coft o¢ gheir poor for 1797, is ftated at 
31. os. rod. per head perannum. At Liver- 
pool, fxs the laf year, I am informed their 
provilions came only to 3s. 6d. per head per 
week. 
EE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AS it has already appeared, through 
the medium of your valuable Ma- 
gazine, that the public are interefted in 
the Diffolution of the Northampton Aca- 
demy, you will greatly oblige me, as 
well as gratify many of your readers, by 
inierting in the next number, the follow- 
ing papers, together with a few prelimi- 
nary hints. ; 
I fhould not have troubled you, m the 
prefent form, could I haye had juftize. 
done me, through another channel; but. 
the fimple fact is this: The paper -te 
which I have replied, and which ve 
wil 
