The National Register.
London, England, 1816-10-14 00:00:00

M.trnim 11.tit.v.tE, M.D.

[As the answers to the above questions were in substane'e
much in favour of the opinions of Mr. Cooper and Dr. Pens-
het ton, it will be needless to repeat Ikea' here ; we therefore
procced to another part of his evidence.]
What is the state of heat, as ascertained by a thermometer,
in which children might work without injury should say,
that the temperature which is upon the whole most favoura-
ble is about 60 degrees of heat.

Lt :riving your -opinion on this subject, do you take into
your consideration the situation nt %%Inch children would be
placed, if at an earlier period, thi y were not employed in
such factories 2-1 do not know that the whole of this pressed
on my mind, but certainly it was not absent from it ; I drew
the comparison between those children as employed in 111%.
init'actories, and the ordinary employment of children in the
country.

IVotati children of the age of ten he employed in the ordi-
nary business of the country:—No; but they would be doing
a good deal of %stark of various kinds, AS going of errands or
%%veilmg, awl a thousand employments %elicit I cannot at pre-
sent call up to my mind.
'l•hat answer seelUS to refer more partienlarly to children
in the country; as the manufactories are generally in tout's,
it does nut apply to thew; therefore the Cunnuittce wish to
know whether you einteekc, it• children at on early period of
life were prevented by Act of Parliament from winking in
factories, their situation would be better than it is?—) con-
ceive it would be more favourable to health to be at large,
although they might sometimes be not well nourished iattel
although sometimes they would be in hot 1)0111S, they Pi mild
have a great deal more time in %%Melt they could be playing
about, and using th.•ir faculties of uliservitt:tat.
Theis if those children were left on the pits ish fur support,
and many sent to the uorkbouse, their situation would be
better than at present think that children would be bet-
ter situated in a worklunise were they not so employed, thau
iu 11/1111lifACtories.

Do you give ibis as an opinion that you derive from an ac-
curate observation of facts, with resiwet to the coalition of
children in factories, or do you give it upon general n 4t4•11-
-Url general rewoning.
Then you are nut really acquainted with the condition of
children employed in such manufactories? I am not really
acquainted with the condition of children eanyloyed in such
manufactories; Lilt I mention a hat I suppose must be more
or less the influence of confinement which children are sub-
ject to in those 111.11111foelUries 1111011 their lwAtli, from the ge-
neral principles than guide as iu ascertaining the cruses that
maintain health or lead to sickness, with I evect to the human
holly generally.
I las you Beer hail reason to conceive that there exists in
the lower cl.issts peiple a want of affection and tender-
ness fur their children believe you will' find vet), often
lesa Alice' ion, both of an ti 'withers, for their childree
in the lover classes, than iu the middle ranks. But at thu
saw.: time there are Many strung instances of the purest
maternal and paternal idi.cetiait in the lowest of so.
vie:y, where there may he vet y great difficulty to rear chil-
dren : they %vat often submit to every kind of priy aeon re-
specting themselves, iu order to roar the children with some
degree o. comfort.
'lhen the lowest (daises arc not the io.l 3ons where the

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