-fions. 
and equivocations. 
to {pend an evening at the houfe of Mr. 
1797:] | ) 
the buildings appurtenant to the farm- 
houtes, yards, &c. feem convenient. 
NoRwWICH is a large manufacturing 
city, and is,computed to contain 43,000 
inhabirants: thirty-two parifh .churches 
ftand in the city, and fourin the fuburbs. 
‘The manufaéture is principally camlets, 
calimancoes, &c.; of late, indeed, the 
weaving of cottons has been introduced : 
‘it is, however, confined, for the mof 
part, within the walls of the city, and 
is not, like the Yorkfhire manufactures, 
fpread out into all the,adjacent market- 
towns and villages. Tlte camlet weav- 
ing has experienced a very great inter- 
ruption during the prefent war, in confe- 
quence of which, foverty has been dif- 
tufed largely among the lower claffes. 
Many of the ftreets are narrow, and mutt 
be very dirty in winter; the market- 
place isa very fpacious f{quare, and, on 
the whole, the handfomeft I have hitherto 
feen ; it is alfo defervedly celebrated for 
its plentiful fupply of all forts of provi- 
A ‘river, navigable for boats, 
paffes through the city, and adds greatly 
tro the convenience of the merchants. 
The caftle, or gaol, is built upon a hill, in 
a fine open fituation, and commands a 
view of the greateft part of the city. 
The buildings are generally very good, 
but do not feem to increafe ; on the con- 
trary, in fome places they appear to have 
fhrunk within the former limits of the 
city. ‘The walls and gates are all either 
pulled down, or in ruins. Here I was 
fortunate enough to get introduced to 
Epwarp Rigby, efq. furgeon, a truly 
public-fpirited man, who, from his ardent 
defire to promote every inveftigation 
Yikely to prove ultimately beneficial to 
the community, not only gave me every 
information he was competent to fuggett, 
but politely accompanied me ‘to Mr. 
Alderman PARTRIDGE, prefident of the 
court of guardians, and feveral other 
gentlemen of authority, who obligingly 
favoured me with ample ftatements rela- 
tive tothe feveral fubjeéts of my enquiry. 
J am concerned, however, to fay that I 
cannot give an account equally favour- 
able of my reception with a certain gen- 
tleman, who tranfaéts the laborious part 
of the bufinefs of the poor in this city: 
all the anfwers of that fingular charaéter 
were expreffed by doubts, fears, furimifes, 
T had the fatisfaction 
RicBy, with a party of his friends, 
among whom was Mr. VoGHurmT, an opu- 
lent merchant of Hamburgh, accompa- 
nied by two other German gentlemen, 
 Monrary Mac. No. XXI. 
Loivr of England.—Norwich. 
Tog 
one of whom was an eminent chemift 
and boranift. Thefe three gentlemen 
had fpent eighteen months in making the 
tour of Great Britain and Ireland, and 
had, among their other refearches, paid 
cohfiderable attention to our mode of 
Maintaining the poor; on the whole, 
they feemed very well fatisfed with 
Britith humanity. Mr. Vocur had 
been inftrumental in new modelling the 
regulations for maintaining the poor at 
Hamburgh ; of thefe new regulations 
(which were found to anfwer every pur- 
pofe intended) he gives a detail in a 
pamphlet printed at Edinburgh, and 
which he diftributcd among his friends, 
and others, to whom the ftated manage- 
ment of the poor is an objeét of enquiry. 
In converfation, the arguments and res 
marks of Mr. VoeurT are not lefs juft 
and humane, than his manners are ami- 
able ; and it is greatly to be wifhed, that 
the obfervations of this philanthropic 
foreigner, relative to the ftate of the poor 
and labouring claffes here, may have their 
due znxfiuence with the Britith fenate, 
fome of the members of which he had 
been lately converfing with on this 
fubject. 
As I arrived at Norwicu in the 
evening of a market day, I had met the 
country people returning home for feve- 
ral miles together, in the latter part of 
my ride. In thefe groupes I noticed a 
circumftance fomething new: fcarcely a 
farmer, or gentleman, was to be feen on 
horfeback ; the {quire had his chaife and 
pair, or chariot; the clergyman and 
wealthy farmer were whirled home in a 
gig ; the common, or lefs affluent farmer, 
and even tradefman and mechanic, who 
kept a horfe, rode in what they call a 
market cart, which is made without fteel 
fprings or cover, is of various shapes, and 
is drawn by one horfe, while Dobbin: is 
commonly forced to trot at a pretty brifk 
pace with his load. Indeed, I cannot 
pretend to decide whether the farmers 
in former years have been accuftomed to 
thunder along the road at fo fierce a rate 
on their return from market, as in the 
inffances of my obfervation ; at prefent, 
however, it is eafy enough to account.ior 
their uncommon elevation of. fpirits. 
This mode of travelling is not without 
its advantages; if a farmer mounts his 
horfe, he can only take his wife, or 
daughter, behind him, while, in an eafy 
rynning cart, one horfe will cheerfully 
trot along the road with his owner, his 
wife, and two or three daughters, whe 
may all fit at cafe, with accommodations 
for 
