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pendence is thus tales away, fig instead of a hardy,
useful, industrious labourppi fagr Ina. becomes
a querulous and idle pauper. I regard these pro-
ceedings as equal to a conapiracy to compel the
Clergymen to compound, and as compelling one
farmer to pay another farmer's degraded paupers."
" Princel and Lords may Sourish, or may foie ;
A breath can make them, as &breath bas made;
But a bold Peasantry, tieir country's pride,
When once destroy'd, can mover be supply‘t"
John Spalding was then sworn ; he was a labourer
in Hollesley, with Mr. Barthropp, from March till
harvest ; his wages were ls. per day, and made 16s.
Gd. in all ; he received this from Mr. Barthropp ;
understood Is. per day was from his own pocket,
and the rest from the parish ; he received those wages
from March till June, when his girl went to service;
he then received 13s. 6d. Mr. Barthropp employed
22 Mai; does not know bow many acres Mr. Bar-
throw occupies; there was no want of work at Hol-
lesley at the time when he received 1.65.6 d. or 135.6 d.
Some items were then read from the parish books,
to prove that Mr. Barthropp had entered £1 1. 7s.
nd. as relief paid to this man.
W. Richardson was then sworn. His.evidence was
very similar to that of J. Spalding ; but besides what
heproved respecting himself, he proved that about
27 persons giving their names, were similarly em-
ployed by Mr. Barthropp. Eight other persons save
similar evidence of working for one or other of the
prish officers.
R. Bridges sworn. In January, 1811, worked with
Mr. Lloyd . stayed till April ; was employed in fen-
cing and thrashing; received 13s. a week; does not
say'how those wages were paid ; had no idea he had
any parish relief; has two children ; has a house of
his own and two acres of laud; not know he• was
a purr.
Mr. J. Woodnough sworn. Is a parishioner of
Hollesley ; occupies about one hundred and fifty acres
in that parish ; is' acqttainted with the other occu-
piers ; there are about three thousand acres in the pa-
lish. Mr. Barthropp has 1100 acres; cannot say how
much arable; about four labourers are required for
100 acres of arable land; large occupations require
fewer; about one in eight less. Mr. Barthropp em-
ploys tweiaty-eight or thirty. Mr. Lloyd has 150 or
160 acres ; has the same proportion of arable ;. em-
ploys Ave or six men. Mr. Waller has 550 acres ;
about the same proportion of arable as Mr. Barthropp
and Mr. Lloyd ; employs about sixteen men; the fair
wages of a labourer are.about 2s. 6d. a day; a la-
bourer can maintain himself, a wife, and three or four
children, the wife doing something ; he is a director
of the poor in the hundreds ittf Loes and Wilford ;
when the wages are 2s. a day, the labourers are al-
lowed from the workhouse Is. 6d. for each child more
that three ; he employs six labourers ; pays each two
shillings and sixpence a day ; some work by the piece.
When they work by the day he pays them Is. 9d.
All have allowance. When labourers receive al-
lowance they have no more wagft.. In Hollesley,
parish, in the common course of husbandry, eighty
labourers are requisite; there are not eighty labourers
in the parish belonging to it; last year all labourers
were sent to their own parishes to be employed; some
•f his men were on the parish about six weeks, be-
cause the labourers working for other farmers recei-
ved sixpence a day wages, and the rest from the pa-'
rish ; he had found the bad effects of this, having to
pay part of others' labourers as well as his own; two
years ago his poor rates amounted to £29, the fol-
lowing year to £79, and then in half a year to EGO.
About last April he paid his men their full wages
again. Broom was Mr. Bolton s tythe-collector ; he
knows not en what terms, for part of the work done,
he took more of Mr. Bolton than he himself paid.

Cross-examined.—He was at a parish meeting; the
men were distributed ; he took none; he produced at
the meeting a scale of relief fixed by the Magistrates
for men who had not wort ; some were to have more
than fifteen shillings a week when they had large fa-
milies. He discovered by the Act of Parliament that
the scale was illegal ; most of the officers were in-
formed so ; the Magistrates said they should have
I twelve shillings a week, the rest according to their
family. About four men are requisite for 100 acres
of arable land ; wages ought to he the same to single
' men as to married men with families, if they work
the same ; a man in health can earn 15s. a week—,
what he requires more must be made up by the pa-
rish ; he has nothing to do in this appeal; he employs
Imore men at harvest than at other time. Mr. B.
does not always want the same number of men.
•

Examined by Mr. Notam—A man, whether sin-
gle or married, if he earns the same, has a right to
the same wages ; some single men endeavour to save
a little money before marrying.
John Capon sworn.—He is acquainted with Hol-
lesley ; has lived there forty years ; there are about
sixty-five labourers in the parish belonging to it; there
is sufficient employ in a regular course without crea-
ting work for the purpose ; he keeps a shop.
Mr. PRIMROSE summed up the evidence with great
ability, and Mr. Jassort made a very energetic
speech, of considerable length, indulging much ram-
vective against the appellant, and concluded by en-
treating that if the Bench would disallow some part of
the accounts, they would not go to the extent orruin-
ing the officers; and reminded the Magistrates, that
justice was always best administered when tempered
with mercy.
A little after six o'clock the Magistrates withdrew,
and in about half an hour returned, and delivered
their decision, that they disallowed 1:68 10s. of the
plccounts, which, with a balance that appeared in the
book of 18s. 2d, making in all £164. 3s. 2d. they
directed to be paid over to the suoceeding officers.—
They farther desired to express their abhorrence of
the principles on which the officers of Hollesley ac-
ted, and hoped their decision would have the desired
effect.

Monday night the house of Mr. Jour; CHAPNfAN,
of klolyfield-hall, in the parish of Waltham Holy-
Cross, in the county of Essex, was broke open by a
very numerous and daring gang of robbers, amoun-
ting to ten or twelve men, armed and disguised.—
They plundered the -house and premises of proper-
ty to a very large amount ; among it were Bank-
notes to the amount of about £74, four watches, with
a variety of seals, chains, &c. one of the watches was
a valuable gold one. The gang made their escwi,
with the whole of the property, and still rerriain un-
discovisred.