The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-09-18 00:00:00

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The *heft Committee appointed to consider the several Re•
terse made to the Orders of this Huss* as 1119, 1110,
1111, and 19411, relative tu the Sums Assessed, Levied.
sad Expended, on scrums( of the Pi,sor to Egghead sad
Wales; sod to report an Abstract hf the same.loaellter
with their obiervatimes thereat', to the House; and to
whoa the Report Gum tie Select Committee oa Poor
Returns, warmed in the last Session of • Pediment, cad
also the Act 80 George lit. c. 59, were referred ; and who
were instructed to consider of new Protrusions for keeping
sod patsies the Accounts of Maoits eapesded oo the
Pour; base, pursuant to the Order of the House, coo.
mitered the Matters to them relating, cud bare agreed to
the following Report :

Your Committee have the satisfsetioa of reporting, that
the Returns referred to them, walairilmt statements of the
amount of the soma levied by way of Poor Rate, sod of the
soma expended oa the poor, is the year reading os Otis
March, 1921, are complete, with the very imeunsiderable
exceptions of [landau sod Manniaghast townships, West
Riding of York.
Connecting, therefore, these accounts with those coo;
housed 1u the Report of the 10th July, In the last year, the
Hesse hoe sow before it Returns Of the Poor Rates for Rise
osetessive years; composing three triessiial periods, reedits'
is March, 1821.
la cooformaity with the pen pursued by the Comenittoe of
lam year, your Committee brat present to the House an ab.
• street of the whole sum assessa and leafed, or in the last
I poi (for the remota assigned to the RepOrt) leriitt oily, in •
Ragland sod Wales, is every year for whkb.Heritras exist,
with-as becalm of the payments made Oben:oat for other
perposesibla the relief of the pour, sod of theism, actoolly
expended epos the poor.
This athimmeot makibits a contioned redoetioa la the
levies from the year 1817.18, so that to the last year the
ansmoot woo lee* by about 300.0001. thou the year 181940;
and lees by 900,114101. than is 1817.19. But Itwould appear '
from the IPeamena, that the Sweat of the eapaaditare for
ottottpselellass]birie the Wider ilse poor, hat bees %eons: '
ing fa the Ise these !mere (I), while the sums actually im-
peded spots the poor • have diminished. Whether this eir-
comstaoce is I. soy degree in bie accounted fur by a dot-
ferret, sad probably more correct mode, adopted by
parish officers, of separsting the two statements, your Com:
mates callow decide. Nes le Ike tweets* of the one bead
of
charge concomitant with the decrease of the other ; a dr-
emmstasee sacemarity involving s suspieion of immcorarry
is the Retorts, because it is well known list in ti, period
znatecerient to 1812, the expenditure for other purposes in-
creir.;•d more rapidly than the expenditure on aecouot of the
poor.
Your Com:l4ltteei however, think it conveaiest, now that
a third trieaniat .cried is completed, to give s County Ab-
stract of the Retarne referred to the former Committee and
to this, dlati•guialriog :he sums so exploded for " Other Pur-
poses." The pecedlog plan are already before the House
to mach detail.
It may be convenient to repeal bete the penal statement
gives hp Set year's Committee, of Ibt pe!gresa of the Poor
Rates:
" The pecablary amount of the levies by way of Poor
Rate, pi ogresstvely and very largely inereased from 1748 to
1812.
" The moon* of the sums applied to the relief of the
poor Increased within the same period progressively, sad
very largely.
" The amount expeaded fur other purposes iocressed pro-
gesesissely, and still more largely than the expenditure on
eceonal of the poor.
" la refereare to comparisons with the year 1503, your
Commaittee have to observe, tbat there is so account of aay
*forage of years between 1783 44, sad 1813.14.1 b ; nor any
bessaant of any siuele year Wiriest those periods, except that
of the year 1803. The Noose will judge whetbror there would
have been soy materially different result, if as average of.
1801.2-3 had been takes, instead of the year 1803 only.
However this may be, it is clear that is 1819-IS, the tapes.
ditto', both for the poor and for whir puppet's, greatly ex-
ceeded the amount in 1803. Since 1812, the total expeadi-
lure in both branches has still further increased ; and the
remark made upon the former statement., that the expendi-
ture for other purposes rove more rapidly than the expendi.
tore on the poor, is not applicable to the later yeast:"—that
is, the years between 1912 aid 1819.
The following obeereat loos of your Committee will he op-
plieable aolely to the 4ums stated to have bees espended trr
the relief of the poor. Of three they a County Abstract,
similar to that given in the last year's Report, with tbe ad.
dition of the year 1820.91.
And your Committee lay before the HOlate a statement,
in which the former Retort'', so far es they relate to the ex-
peditors upon the poor only, are also distinguished by
twenties and the nine later years are av eeeee d in three per,
nods :—The first, of three years ',drag la March, 1815, be.
lag the period which was seder the coosideratiuu of the
Committee of 1817, sod which reached to the first year of
peace ; the second, embracing a like period of three year*,
eadi•g in March, 1818 ; and the third, comprising three
years to March, 1821, instead of the two years gives in the
Report of that year; and they b4ye added a table of the
number of the people in 1821, as wr II *a is 1811. •
It in mill true, as stated in the Report of last year, that
the expenditure has increased from 1812 to the present
time; More
The first period to March, 1815 averages.. £6,123,178

The second period. io March, 1818, iterates 0,84,,290
And the tbord mind, to March. 1821,

&hinge, 7,273,229
gait it is •Ito still true, that the I lICTPIIIIII hia not beets pro•
greasier year by year, shier 1817.18; sod that it is not
now proerets:ve. tits the contrary, each of the three yearn
of the third period has ex►ibited a diminution as compared
with the year peeeedied.

le 1917.18, the sasuust was
Is 1818 10 .„.. ditto

la 11119 SO ditto
t. teto•tl