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theHaase in 'Utast et length the evils that grew oil Ili 1114
With* 01- elaglaval of the pour, he 'trusted to he indiateml s
with Its 'Mattoo ice' a tho., time longer to tort soMe I,
of the utsjettliess which had been started to the ill. 1
Perishes were to contemn internee with rob otter *tot the
aettlerneni of ram from other parts of the rounds.• It joss ,
• said by many, .If yew .1a away with the removal elan pen, •
i people will poll does the cottages in country parishes, mid j
i dr.ve the pour into pepubius Iberia." So far from dist, it
I hml heretofore hors Nand, that idler the statute of Eli! s-
beth had ponied, people built cottages fur tbe poor, and to •
mods ea eldest *SA that the ease, that an Art ens
passed to prevent it. the Houeerible. sod Lenneed
Drollness proceeded to read some eatrarts from Dr. •
Berns relative to the practice of hiring servesiti fiat half, or
• quarter of a year,or the monde or the week, or la say Odom
way, Apr as to avoid giving them a settlement, and i• este el
their heiug hired fur the year, of pirkiue • quarrel wills
them to isdisee them to quit before the time esmred, in order
to prevent their gaining letsleinems.—(Laughler.)-4-Theie
taught be Gentlemrst in that House eho wore out aware
that every Quarter Sessions 111 the kingiluns furnished
• multitude of cases of that description, which it require-I
all the Wright of talent mid ingenuity of big Honour-
able and Learned Friend to meet. The extract then
proceeded to mention the pulling clown of cultage• to
depopulate the parish of the poor in order to lessen the
rates. Thus the House would see that Dr. Burns ascribed
• the pulling clowis of the coitag.s to the present law of re-
move'. That law had also • very pernicious operalmn upon
the moral treatment of the poor. With respect to their owe
poor, the parishes took paiiss to find thee, empluitatat sad
to promote moral habits mount them in order to keep theta
frees becoming burdensome; but it was frequently foetid
that of those slot belungiug to the parishes the moral coo.
Olio, was wholly neglected, becomes iif they applied fur
relief they could give them a shilliew and aced them away.
He had received • letter OH that sullied from • very Imola
and nut uundellieent iuhabitant of • parish in Cumberland,
who slated that in that parish all possible care was taken of
the morals of the young women who were so tleil in the perish,
but that those of the strangers were wholly neglected, they,
being poked upon as fair game, because they curl.' be
removed whenever they became troublesome. if the
power of removal were taken away, the overseers
would take care to inform, themselves of the circumstances
and character of reels poor person, and relief would oat he
gives to the indolent and profligate, aud every one of the
evils of the canting system would be removed. There were
persona who objected to the repeal of the power of removal,
that it would be taking away • pewesfel restraint epos the
' indolence and viciousness of the pour. That argument, if he
understood it aright, conrertiod Ihe law of removal into a pe-
nal law to puaisli the idle an. dissolute. If that were the phe-
eiple of the objection, it would be better on that ground to
take away the right of settlement altogether, and to allow of
the removal of the idle and dissolute pauper tr., any place 150
miles disbud horn the parish in which be bad been' 'befog;
and bad Invitee hurdenorne. That same moral rents/et esti
are y to stimulate the indent., end activity of Hoe
laboodue poor, might he veep too, bet that traneporta•
dust from the place where they were lisle, was the brat
' mode of atiatuing it, was what he denied. What geed. Ina
• asked', weld possibly be derived from it, either to the
• individual in to the pariah to, which he wee sent 1 He
• would asy that it was • great evil, beeseve it operated
useqestly. It was well aware. to every man et all acquateted
orith the subject, dist lanai attaehorems were stronger in
the minds of the eirtuue• and industrious thee of the idle
• osseproffteate; bet poverty might overtake hole sad hods
alike became subject to removal. It wee a qmseitthr with
him, whether • profligate poor mew would care about being
removed front his faculty from one of the itlitgilmod to dot
other; hot it would set with grew. severity Os the virtuous.
' The best moist restraint wetted be found Wallet destine
which woald lead to Moony Into the cheese's* daa petircon.
duct oldie individual; sad apportion theerhief to he Oka
him accodiag to his writs. Some Petition/ which hod
been presented against the Bill mated as a peel hart.
ship, that sander its prioresient *Ward wotH be al-
lowed to' liar le of bastard eloklre• in the parishes where
they might be eseployeti, old be. become ertillbd to
support he theaseelres and eseeitrimaie pronely. The
amount of that negaimeit in plant Ismourisge wan this ;
that the ntsnuratternsa towrs, ter it was from diem thee
these pentanes came, bed no objection to hoe the yowl
women fresh from the country, to have them got with elide,
Ind thee sent beck to the colour, to he delleerrd. A peti-
tion, presented by his Hon. and Leorned Friend, the Member
fur Nottingham (Mr. Denman), on that suliject, slated, that
io • parish in Nottingham there were sixty-nine' women in
that condition; and it was thought • greet hardship out that
they ilhould be got with child, but that they should be deli-
vered there, instead orkiellegsent into the cooed', where they
might hove she benefit of parer air and healthier ludelogo.
The rein objection was to the maintenance of those Obit-
deem Bat he saw no reason why they should be obliged lay
mensal' them; there wee no moral' obligation ; they milder
do as war &ire io Scotland In those cases, give the wdeaSti•
wt order of maintesenre on the lather of the child, sud if
she complained of his refund, then die order might he ear.
/breed. Tie espouse of reamed often led to a cempeolaisee
• between die overseers of the parish to which a peeper be.
longed with those of the parish iu which he was midis;, for
the payment of whatever might be allowed by the latter fur Ws
maiatenaace in order to prevent his removal. The effect of
ouch, practice sass to i eeeee se the choice orbit mairsteamter ;
for overseers bad Imo objection to make a liberal allowanee
when another parish had to pay. The general effect of this Bill
would be to produce in every toot) it England a greater dis-
position mid ureessify for strict inquiry into the character,
eeeduct, end condition of the poor, In order to' ere that
relief was giver to those only who were deserving. ft would
lead also to greater care of the moral and religious tidbits 6f
the poor, and to the diminution id their numbers. It would
• also relieve the agriculture of the cousory•from much of the
ioconvenienee of beteg subjected to • Create. proportion oldie
burden thaw war due. It was not fair that the royalty should
rinse men that the usantifacturisig monis shoold have the bene-
fit ef their labour until they became changeable, awl thee stud
them back to the eumstry to be maiutmord by their parishes.
Much of 'hat evil might he removed by the general adunties
in manisficturied of the rho followed in a factoryat Salford, '
where •fund was formed by the stoppage of a peony a week
from each man's wages for the summit oldie sack mid infirm,
the effect of which had beess, that no man working in that 1
factory had received soy relict feuni the parish. The pre.
sans Bill world get 11,1 of she whole most or invonity whirls
we, kept up at • mat expense tii support aft artificial ;vv. ,
lent w Inch was must' perniclue. in its effeets.--(Hear.).--Thcm
were the results +bleb had presented theMselece to his stood '
upon in attentive and orlon, coosideration of the siihjeet. •
He was bet an humble individual, and, unters•the House were
hulloed to support him. he mint pure up the further pur-
suit of tins measure. But, if the House fill inclined by its
support to encourage him to go on, he would persevere,
whatever difficulties he might have Ist overcome, wheleore
the unpopularity of the measure 'riled he, and whatever
odium or evert ridicule miglii be raised against it. Ili. con-
eluded by moving the Order of the Day, for the securd
reading.
The Order of Ilse Day having been read—
Mr.
SCARLETT moved that the Bill be now read • se-
cond time.

Mr. MANSFIELD said, the feeling of bi■ conottlemets
hither hems so straggly expressed stalest this measure, he
felt it inzumbent on him to oppose it. He did so nut only
twrause it pressed severely me those who had to relieve the
poor, but elm because it did particularly so ON those who
w• re to be relieved. Hit concluded by moviag as au sewed-
meet, " Thu the Bill be tbul a sewed time this day its.
mouths."

IHr. MONCK said be was reedy to adroit that the opera-
tion it/ the poor laws offered at best but a choice of evils;
but Ise thought that ander the present system the evil was
Ins than it would be with., the alteration proposed by the
Hon. sod Learned Gentleman if it should be adopted. He
then ►ntered into a succinct ellitllleUt of the origin, progress,
and alteration at carivas 1111111% of the law respecting settle.
meats, sod' contended that the uniforms feeling of she law,
as Astro by those enactments, was to Moment instead of le-
creasing. eases of removal. by addle, to the difficulty of
obtaining etillemeals. Voider the present law, the system
pursued in country parisbrs was to pall down the cut-
logss and depopulate the pa►ishes, is order to lessen the
rots. He had seen that ststedi acted upon in the