The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-07-17 00:00:00

PEWRONAL BEAUTY.

A PEARS, 53, WON-strait, Oxford-street, tole Pro-
./ 1.• prietor of tl:c folios ing elegant Articles for the Toilet, re-
spectfully arguairaslailics of Fashion and Distinction, that be con-
tiaues to nutr.ufacture them in that style of excellence which has
hitherto been his passport to public favour. Ilia indefatigable
anx;dy to please having been riwardcd with the greatest encou.
ragement from a liberal and discriminating Public, he with plea-
sure rt commends them as the nir or perfect of their kind, and such
as cannot be exceeded for real utility and adeantage :
Pli.lßS'S TRANSPARENT SOAP, for embelllvhing and
beautifying the complexion.
PcAIIS'S ROTA %IC CREAM, particularly calculated to be
tts.nl in Narstrics, and by persons whose tki..s are of so tender a
nature that the application of wap is too rough and irritable to be
used with plcasure.
dlAlloth.‘lt DF:NTIFRICE. for improving the Teeth, beau.
Vying the CUM.. and sweetening the Breuth.
Pl...lltts'S LIQUID 111.0031 of Ros Es. and Wliite Impe.
real fonder, famous for ,-ivirg n henn•ifut tinge to the Check sad,
Lilo, and the latter he'stovring a delicacy to the countenance,
strictly conipatible with a just it rd' female gram.
PEARS'S ROSH COIJOUIC or PINK SAUCERS. This
invention is for Drawing in \rater Colwell., Paimipg on Velvet,
tinging the Checks' Lips, &r. dying tzilk,-Lace, Muslim, Feathery,
Artificial floacrs,&e.

This is a most interesting ti-port, both as to the topic
which it embraces and the evi lenct: it . witohls. There is
no subject upon which the popular mied more renuiles to
b.!enlightened than that which reap:eta the trlstntestanes
of the pact. There is no tothj?ct on which ea* orrcrigno
doctrines prevail,
.nor any erroneous ilogiaiiggs "Licit hate
given }tittle to a system so fundamentally rake and fatal as
that under which, for the last (vital*, we hose !buttered
the idleness and profligacy of the lqwgt elarws.; and we
hare done this from the mistaken good Ittlabliwit a tra-
viding for the wants of the pout, and . giving sappect to
the destitute.

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Tile Report commendO thus :
?ruin th-r evidence, and othu iilornasfie c.dlcct 4by yaw Com-
mittee. it ippeari that, in amp: thilriCtil .o( the country. 41..:
rwatiier
burn lalZarers eri sent rouud to the Cannes", an I, Lg* POPF.
and income insunees biz .thu!..: e.i ba llece. sularr fie. um p 05,14,
wield, warkihi Npuh fig tout of isdkidmaid. T.nisinset web
drobilosa, I:unstirred al thite as a loons of employing aber surp.us
laboureneof a jssrfsti ; hot by an "Sine, "hilt is slime inevisole,
itAas het; ecorteshsjiafiso e roots i(olstgiser fin penult itp Dopler
Mt. Mini g Idlik awk relkele h..a ir. net, pf.;4!ur h:" pri,ate pairass.
elsusifreituently felwe Unshed's:sly &practice or sandir4 the
unemployed les:nous tiloa the fano in the parl.n. ,ine fawns,
fisehug leineeifyheiged of a greater quantity of lot aur
.tbeo Iso
requires, teleran, endeavours a ecoomaies..4 d4Viargill those
I„,antego, of whom he „boo the karts read, and !kir "PAL the
supply furnished 4 the parlit far week. hitherto pans: mini en-
tirely at his own asst. An nistince hat been Tinted. °la farmer's
ream standing still because the farmer had rot recen-14 the mollier
or noirldsinat hettected. Thus lh,. trii qf th;tp,,:.-liee. e ,i,zzeenie
ilse#* ; and the s . y hard-working labourer, condoled by
went with Isis rimier. is co everted into the ei;gruaceisol Wirt
penr;..nerLf Ma pride.
The re'.witicat foliow front the system abort deirrilseri, way be
thus enumerated e— ...

lat.—The employer dces not obtain efEcient labeler free the la-
bourer whom he hires. In pious of Norioik, for ingt&llN . • la-
b3uter is quite certain or obtaining an allowance (feel the gialialc,
sufficient to 'Lagoon his family ; eanseaurth!y b:ectit.:l eittle_r
ofiesigereitee to Di, cher At Nees a smelt anal, or a large oat.
It he obvicp, indeed, that a disinclination to work most be the
cosiewluante cif so vicious a system. Ile, whose subaicente irsi
cure 1r i Moat 'cork. and who cannot obtain more than a mere set.
dent, kcc the hardett work, will naturally be an Ilk cad eced:ss
lahattrer.

2‘ly.—Persions wba have no reef of farm-labour 1,11 Obliged to
contribute to the payment of work none fur others. This DIM hh
the care whsrerer the labourers necessarily etipploycd by tic
nicns restive from the parish any pat of a if :MX so
paid, would be paid by the farmens t
idly.--.% starlit/liar/feline L extuatrardeASKl wile regale koir
a small pittance know that they lure only to starry, nod t4it
billet Will be asizateatet! is proper-that to list it4mtah: r Cede tail.
drew. Hence the supply of labor it by nn mcauf • Wad by the
demand, and parishes arc burdened with dilrty4 l y, and fifty
I labourer., for whom they can find no einaployeasubs and who s
to depress the sitoation of an their .fiaiste taltotivitra la the a 'nee
pati,h. An intelligent witness, who is much in rise habit alert.
playing labourers, ewes, that when comp/wining of tistirallowance,
they frequently ray to him, "We will marry, and yuu must main.
tam as.

4.hly—By far the worst cons.laence 7f the system is, the dera-
datias of the character of die labouring els& '
The evil is here terribly stated, and the remarks upcia
it ate strikingly just. We create in this country the poor
we relieve. Baer& is a relative term; but what denomi-
nation of persons thould be ranked under the term
" poor," and be, cu that ground, entitled to subtdrtence
out of the parish rates, the Legislature has never yet been
at the pains to settle. Their title to relief is equally valid,
and is, therefore, enforced with equal arrogance, whether
their indigence arise from age, from accident, from misfor-
tune, front dissipation, idleness, inattention to economy, or
from any other of the various causes by which that Class.
whose only possession is their labour, may be itnpoverithed
and brought to beggary. It may be difficult, no doubt, so
to classify and discriminate the different elates as to tare
precaution against abuse; but what system cat be rectified
in its evil results without difbvulty ? end on what subjec
of greater national interest can the labour of an enlight
coed Government be so well bestowed? It must be ad,-
that the tuk of reforming this inveterately bad
sysktn is encumbered with difficulties, and therefore ti is
that it has been neglected; but consequences have orient.
by degrees, to a magnitude that forces them every where
and perpetually on the public mind, because thegreivancei
arising out of them are perpetn.:4•.y and every where felt.

With respect to the remedy for the evils pointed out, it is.obvi-
out to remark, that a great, if not the greater part, arires from t!:e
nial•admintstration of` the laws. Vet when this remark is wads, it
does not appear how, under the present sstem, the lass which ee.
gain! the poor should' be otheewise than illy administered. Where no
select vestry or assistant overseer has been appointed, the poor a:e
consigned to the care of a person named only for ate year, and iss
general anxious chiefly to get rid of his office with as Ii tl: tro:V.;:e
to himself as possible ; or, if he endeavours, is spite of ehenour
and vexatian, to improve the practice, his designs arc liable to be
overset by the orders of Magistrates, who, with excellent intentions.
are often not conversant with ti.e details of the management of the
parish in whose concerns they interfere.
The great object to be aimed at is, if post tible, to sepc•a'e the
maintenance of the unemployed from the wages of the employed
labourer ; to divide two classes, which have been confounded ; to
have the employed labourer in possession of wages sufficient to
maintain his family, and to oblige the rest to work far the parish
in the way most likely to prevent idleneia.
In order to effect the purpose of separating the wages of err-
ployed labourers from the poor-rate, it appears to us, that muck
might be done by affofding to wellants against the yearly at.-
counts, the easiest remedy of prhle* the law as. l'he Act of
50 George 111. c. 49, dire:ts, that the yearly accounts, to be n.ade
out according to previous .lets of Parliament, shall be submitted
to two or more Justices, at a Special flautist; ; and the Act em-
powers the Justices, " if they shall so think fit," to examine int,
the matter of every such account, stud to " disallow and strike out
of every such account, all such rhnrres and payments as they shall
deem to be unfounded, and to reduce such as they shall deem exor-
bitant.; and they are to specify the cause for winch any charge is
disallowed or reduced."
Notwithstanding this provision, it appears, that at present, even
when a complaint is made, that the sums levied on the parish hare
not been applied according to the intention of the law ; a practice
has in some places prevailed, of directing the complainant to appeal
to the Quarter SlNi10:11. This proceeding entails the employment
of Counsel, and an expense both of money and time, which is
both unnecessary and oppressive. There is some ambiguity rr-
tainly in the word '• unfounded," contained in the Act just quoted;
but there cannot well exist a doubt that it is intended to apply to
charges or payments which do not conic within the scope and ie-
tentien of the poor laws.
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()r. this, and on almost every part of the subject, we mei!' ot.
serve. that if the payers of the rates do not complain, and thereby
enable the neighbouring Justices to execute the law at present ex-
isting, it is needles* to attempt, by any new Act, to prevent Awe..
permitted or connived at by wore who have the clearest interest m
repressing them. Above all, the 111111101 themselves aught to pee.
cove, that any practice which teed, to degrade the charact:r of the
labours tends. in the same dqcree, to (Inrush the value et his
labour, and to reader agricultural property *as secure and ley.
desirable.

By the Act of the 33d of Elizabeth, it is ordered. ten: the
" f%eirchwartiens and Overseers" shall take order, from time to
time, with the consent of two or mote Justices, for so:Mg rti work
the children 6f all such al.° shall not be thought able to keep end
maintain their cluklren. This provision, elide it ckserly nln ca
that the framers of the Act never had it in enntemplsticn to tax:
a fund for the support of all the children or all labourers. affords the
means of remedying, in some degree, the existing evil ui adding
to the wages of labour fro:n the poor rate. Whercvs, trout disin-
clination to work, parents f Cfll less then they mfghedo, in order t
draw tenor the parish fund, it might be found highly useful that
the parish officers, with the consent of the Magistrates. should.
instead of giving money to the parents. set to went their children.
who would at toe same time be removes from the example of
or dissolute parents. But this remedy must be used wish 'stalk*.
and might be inexpedieat, if applied in canes where the hest !abm.
rem, with their utmost exertsns. canna earn antfiCkn: to bring uf
their children without parish assistance.
(To be coatinued.)

Ilynaovuosia.—Extract of a letttr fimu
gentleman at Venice to a friend in Perth :hire -----" If you
were here you would be much plea.eil with .t discovery
made at Udine, the capital of Friuli, a small pro'. uice be-
longing to this Republic. ,1 poor man lying under the
frightful tortures of hydrot.hobia was cued by some
draughts of vinegar given him by mistake insteast u!. :.siothts
potion. A physician at Padua, called Count Le9niass, gal
intelligence of this event at Udine, and tried the ,anue re-
medy upon a pati 'Di that was brought to the l'..*laais hos-
pital, administering him a pound of vinegar in the war l-
ing, another at noon, and a thiad at sunset ; alai the ma'
was speedily and perfectly cured."

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