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of people, and both miferablein the extreme : 
the one bowed down with an immenfe ac- 
cumulation of z/ele/s unenjoyed property, 
with all its attendant burden of anxieties, 
and painful whimfes—the mifery and dit- 
fatistaction of pride, and that complete de- 
reli€tion of chara&ter, and total fuperlative 
wretchednefs, which the French fo power- 
fully exprefs by the term exaui. The other 
Geftitute of fupplies to the common and im- 
perious wants of nature. Whether any 
adequate remedy can or willbe applied, 
the Great Governor of the univerfe can 
tell. Perhaps the fad time is come at 
Jaf, when the mealure of national iniquity 
is full, and when 
~~ 
6° Quos Jupiter vult perdere, prius demen- 
tat.” 
I am, Sir, 
Your's, &c. 
fs Wer rer. 
April 9, 1801. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
[ The following paper, of which a few copies 
only have been printed, has been tranf- 
mitted to us by a refpe€table Correfpon- 
dent, as containing a plaa well deferving 
of general adoption. | ’ 
HE A&G of Parliament for taking an 
account of the population of Great 
Britain requires certain queftions to be 
anfwered in England by~ the refpective 
everfeers of the poor; or, in detavlt of 
them, by fome fubftantial houfeholder of 
every parifh, tewnfhip, cr place. Govern- 
ment therefore will receive, as far as the 
accuracy of the returns can be depended 
upon, an enumeration, claffed under proper 
divifions, of ali the parifoes and town/fkips 
in England wich maintain their own poor 
feparately ; and aljo of all extra-parochial 
places. If this information were tv be 
publifhed, it wouid be a treafure to the 
confcientious magiltrate, and to every prac- 
titioner of the law whofe object is to dif- 
cover and detend, rather than to perplex, 
the truth. The Index Villcris of Adams, 
the Nomina Viliarum Eboracenfium, and 
the co;ious index iubjomed to Carey’s laft 
Map of England, however ufeful in other 
re{pects, are detective in this, that they do 
not difizneuith the places which have a {e- 
parate economy in the management of their 
poor. When it is confidered from what 
defcription of pertons the information of 
magifirates is generally to be derived, 
Propofal refpeting Enumeration. 
- tion of this is illuftrated in the 
[ June ¥, 
when they are called upon to make orders 
of removal, and how inadequate their 
means are of correcting that information, 
it is not to be wondered at, that removals 
are fometimes made to places which are 
not townhhips, or to townfhips which do 
not exift in the county named in the order. 
Expenfive litigations enfue ; and the poor 
are harafled by repeated removals, which 
would otherwife have been unneceflary. 
Nor is it of fmall importance, that when 
the place of the fettlement is ill defined, an 
additional obftacle is thrown in the way 
of that moft defirable obje&, the extenfion 
of parochial relief to perfons refiding out 
of their own townfhips, who are often 
more profitably employed there than they 
could be if they were removed. Indif- 
ments too are fometimes rendered void 
from want of -precifion in the names and 
fituations of places. 
All thefe evils would, in a great mea- 
fure, be done away by the general ufe of 
- fuch a publication as here fuggelted. -It 
may perhaps be too much to hope that it 
could ever be made fo accurate as to be- 
come abfolutely an authority; but it 
might be compiled with fuch care as to be 
found a moft valuable affiftant. 
To make the arrangement clear, let us 
define a tocunfbip to be a ditrit which bas 
its diftiné? overfeers, and maintains its oxen 
poor feparately. A parifh therefore may 
conlilt of one or more townfbips. Let P 
fignify pari/h ; T, town/eip : then PT may 
denote a parifh confifting of one townfhi 
only, and P may be a parifh divided into 
feveral townfhips, each of which will have 
‘T prefixed to it. Cities or towns, con- 
taining more than one parifh, might be. 
printed in capital letters. The applica- 
ipeci- 
men ci the index, and in the page that 
follows it. A good index would be of 
great ule; and as there are many places 
bearing the fame names, it might be pro; 
per to have onc column for the place, ano- 
ther for the letter or letters denoting its 
title, a third for the county, and a fourth 
for the page waere it is tobe found. The 
advantages of having the places doubly 
arranged, firft under their feveral divi- 
fions and fubdivifions, and fecondiy, inan 
index, are apparent upon a very little re- 
flection. 
‘The attention of parliament is now fo 
much engiofied by more important con- 
cerns, that a propofal of this fort may 
perhaps be jubmitted to it in a future 
year with greater profpe& of fucccis than 
could 
