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svoweely brought in fur the purpose of preventing ot
punishing such an offence. If then the ancient law
f the land was sufficient, where, be would -ask,
was the nercsaity of continuing this new tangled
e:casere'--Cllrnr, hear.)--He was sorry to bear
I is Honourable and Learned Friend opposite (Serjeant
Onslow) ask for the reasons upon which the repeal
el this Bill was called for. His Honourable and
Learned Friend ought to know, that it was for those
who supported the necessity of the measure, to chew
the grounds of that necessity. • This was a measure
which, if continned, would increase the discontent
and irritation of the country. If it was true that
there were people in the country anxious to inflame
and produce disaffection in the public mind, nothing
was more easy for them than to evade those Acts.
It' then those persons were in earnest, the Act was
wholly useless : if not, it was wholly unnecessary;
and its only effects would be, to loosen the bond low
tweets the throne and the people, and to destroy that
road and independent feeling which had ever been
entertained by the inhabitants of this country. Al-
leding to the Blasphemous Libels Bill, the Honour-
nide and Learned Member contended, that nothing
was more difficult to be defined. It was found that
one Jury had acquitted Mr. Hone of a charge of
t.Lisphemons libel. while other Juries found persons
guilty of charges of a precisely similar nature. The
JPrinition of a blasphemous libel, according to the
Iloaourable and Learned Member, was any thing
which tended to bring the King or Oovernment of
the country into contempt. Now, so far from this I
beim; the instance, he maintained that Orcumatances
aright accrue under which it would be the duty of every
..nhject to point out in the strongest terms the exist-
ence of a grievance, and the necessity of redressing
it. lint bow could this be done without using lan-
rear which would give a Magistrate the power of
transporting him as a felon ? For what purpose was
a meeting called but for pointing out grievances with
a view to their remedy ? And yet this would subject
a man to transportation under the new Act which
Fad been so much eulogised by the Mentionable and
Learned Member opposite. The Hon. and Learned
Alember, safer some further observation., concluded
anpporting the motion.
Mr. Serjeaat ONSLOW explained.
Mr. MAXWELL obaerverl, that he had atipportell
t measure in question from a conviction that it
woul.l prevent his Constituents from the evils which
awe: rut of the Manchester Meeting. The Nobto
le
Lard (Londonderry) hatieg said that the Bill was
h.. a temporary one, he (Mr Maxwell) felt himself
ple•lgeri not to rote against it at present ; but with
record to the Blasphemons Libel,' Repeal Bill, he
felt himself under no such pledge, and would cer-
tainly support it.
Mr. HCTCHINSON sup; oiled the motion.
After a few words from a Member under the Gal-
len-, whose name we could not learn,
Mr. MIERCHOMBY said, that he had originally
senported these Bills, conceiving them to be necessary
tc• the trampsillity of the country. lie would now
rove for the repeal of the Bill in question, as he con-
ceive lit to be no louver called fur. One reason,
reong others, which induced him to do so, was the
conduct of the Sheriffs of certain counties with re-
soect to public meetings. He was aware that many
Sheriffs had conducted themselves with the greatest
ropriety, bet others had acted with a degree of
e..price which hail a tendency to put the people in
ostiiities to the laws. Ile could not, however, help
s•nting, that the motion of his Honourable Friend
e?ottltl, unless it was curried (of oi'lich he had hot
hopes), have an injurious tendency by exciting
i the public mind feelings and hopes which could
cct he realised. Under such circumstances he could
r ish that the motion was withdrawn, but if it was
p-resed be -lipoid certainly Tole in favour of it.
Mr. LENNARD, in reply. said. that he wonlil cer-
t.. rliy divide the Hongr on the in aion. The people
o:* England world see, that though there were too
a-arty Members in that House determined, at all
events, to support the measures of power, there were
ethers anxious to stand forward in sitliport of the in-,
v.:ded liberties of the country. •
Sir J. NEW PORT rose, avid cries of "strangers'
wit's raw." From the nose which prevailed we were ;
at.le only hear the Right llottonrable Baroret de-
c.e.e. that, as no case appeared to I
li to have been
rr .tie out by Ministers in favour of e Law. amight
to ;re repealed, he would feel it his ditty to vote for ;
tt motion.
:lie Bonte then divided. when there appeared--Fur
the motion, tile_ Against it, r9—Majority against the
F.:6es. el.
On on • ri -admission, we funnd Mr. DENMAN on
1 'a legs, speaking on the motion for a repeal of the
Seditious and Blasphemous Libels Bill. The lion.
aq Learned (lent. reprobated in the strongest manner
ti,e principles of the Rill ; it inflicted a severe, cruel,
ani barbarous pneishment. tl a• of exile, upon any per-
mir who might be a second time convicte:i of pelpllall-
- what a Jury might think wag of a libellous ten-
ers cy. When that Bill was first in•roduced into
P.srauseent ; he cotsteasphiteti it with a degree of
horror. he hoped that no gentleman in that House
w•;nld say that such a law was now necessary. Pub-
Lcations of a blasphemous and seditious kind were
Ira down--intt down not by the force of that Rill, but
of the old laws of the land, and there were now no
furls fur restoring a nuisance which was allowed to
lonsinne so long. Prosecutions under the old laws
Fat down those pnblirations. bitt since the enectment
Mt the statute, circuniatance• of a most frightful na-
ter* came to light.—(Near, bear, hear.)—rhe most in-
fe.raoss libels that had appeared—liela above all
others best calculated to excite the people to acts of
violence, perhaps of actual rebtllion.—(Hear, bear)--
were traced to certain spies and agents who evidently
wished to goad the people on to ncts of mutiny.—
(Hear.)..--He called upon the House, as they valued
the illeSeld liberties of England. to repeal a law odious
to the people, so it was incompatible with the exist-
ence of their rights.
The Hones then divided, when there appeared for
the Motion, 116.. Against it, Sa.—Majority against
tt-e motion. 24.

TEE POOR LAWS.
- Oh oar rradatiasioa, we found dtr. it're•rrn and the
Marquess of Loirnistosaar engaged in a conversation
on the salijeet of Mr. Srarlett's BM relative to the
Poor Laws. Pio nth, noise that prevailed, occasioned
by th rash of mamma, we were It It able to collect the
satire et their obeettstioes.

THE

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14r. SCARIATT then tame and said. that as the
House :wetted disposed that be should then state the
grneenda of the Bill which he iutentled to Weaker, to
amend the Poor Laws, he would do so as shortly as he
contd. He was aware of the great tuagnitnJe of the
subject. Nee subject, indeed, could call fur more deli-
berate consideration. Any measure on a subject 00
important, was certainly deservine the support of a
liberal and enlightened tiovernment. and he w3i not
without apprehension in bringing forward the present
Bill without the previont sanction or countenance of
Ministers. If he had thought that the measure,
any thing like it, would have been brought forward
under the sanction of tiovernment, he weeeld not have
obtruded it on the Howse. If Ise had any reason to be-
lieve that any Member of the Committee appointed
some years ago to inquire into the state of the Peter
Law., and whose Report contained so much valuable
information on the subject—if any Member of that
Committee had shesen any disposition to act upon the
suggestions contained in the Report. he (Mr. Scarlet%)
would have altogether abstained from the subject.l
The subject of the Poor Laws had for many years ere-
copied his attention. The measure which lee proposed
was not the result of hasty conaideration, nor the ef-
fect of any deliberation of his since the Report
of the Commit•re had been puhlishol. He had
not an opportunity of seeing the valuable information
which they had imparted on the subject until after he'
had proposed his Bill ; it was however, a emitter of
great satisfaction to him to find that the views which
he had taken of the question were supported by the
Committee. The great evil which resulted from the
Poor Laws was, that an unlimited provision was set-
tled for the Pomo—(Heat, hear.)--The effect of that
unlimited provision for the poor, to reason on it a
priori, was. that it operated as a premium on poverty.
—(Hear.)--The House would rot be at a I .11% to see
that it would neceasarily create Wirier:es. liereeiousuess,
and immorality.—(Hear, bear.)—It was the condition
of human nature to labour ; nothing could be more un-
fortunate to &country than a system of law which dis-
connected the ieleaa oil:thew and profit ; yet such wive
the immediate effect of the Poor Laws. they gave re.
liege to indolence, they operated so as to remove in-
conveniences %Odell %honk% always be allowed 10 fe n-
conveniences
vice ; they eleeramleal the character of the man who
received relief under them. breaumme they lowered him
in his own estimation. They bail the tendency to in-
volve in their fatal circle the whole population of the
conntrv. The Hone had but ton much reason to
fear that this evil %lout.; go on rapidly increasing
the time would come, it was fast
.approaching,
when parishes would be foiled not sufficient to sup-
port their population. Imired. at the present
moment, there were parishes in England where the
land was not woe tie more, after paying psrish rates, than
the price of the labour expended on it. He would now
proceed to state the result of the inquiries which he
had made, and tiro as to the effect of those laws on
the feeling« of the people. The relief was scarce ly
considered in the light of charity, there was nothing
of grace about it : it was bestowed without compas-
sion, and received without gratitude—(llear, hear.)—
There was another conaidet mim% whirls was para-
mount to all others, namely, it dissolved between the
poor and the rich those ties which hail formerly hound
together the different order( of society ; there was no
longer gratitude on the one hand, or real charity on
the other; the poor received witbout thanks what
they were entitled to receive. :111.1 the rich gave with-
out compassion what they weir compelled to bestow.
On looking to the result of the law. the House would
find that the increase of the Poor Rates Iraq so rapid.
that unless some check was given to them, they mast
eltimately, and that at no very distant period, absorb
all the landed property of the country. Ily the Re-
port of the Committee men the Tahle of the House,
he
found that in the years 174,, 1719, and 175(1, the
average for the three year" amonnted to 659,97 I!. In
twenty-six years after, the Poor Rates increased toe
1,530,504/4 in 17e3, they increased to 3,437.000/
in 1503, they increased) to 4.2ei7,963/.; in 1513. they
increased to 6.1429.00 W. Thu- during the period ler
had stated, the Poor Rates itecreastal half a milliou for
the first thirteen years, ball a million for the next
seven years, one millinn for the s seen succeedieigi
rearm. and one million for the flee aelleartittent years. 1
ISIS. the last year included In the Report of the
Committee, the amount of the Poor Rates wash
6.129,531/. It was an ittepertant fact that both in
peace and in war, the Poor Rates went on progressime-
ly increasing. and if sore meatier, were nut adopted
to stop the evil, it was tent too much to be appre-
hended that it would go on increasing. until a' length
no maintenance would be left for the poor. The Hon.
and Learned Crew. next read an extract from a Re-
port of a Committee of the House of Lords, on the
4- ae of the parish of Namptnich. in Cheshire. In
the year Itll6 the parish office rs addressed a public
letter to the inhabitants, in which they stated that
the increase of resident pauper' from 1781 to 1015
was from M 1 to 90. The increase of met paupers for
the same period was in the same proportion. I n 171.4
l
there were six bastard children dim geml on the parish.
In 1515 they increased to 37. Vet the price of corn
was nearly the same it both period". and wage* con-
siderably higher. The House, he was satisfied would
agree with him in thinking, that a dependence oe
parochial relief caused a diminution of indirioluel ex-
ertion. au inattention to economy, and a relaxation of
moral.. It was remarked that in proportion to the
liberality of the parish was the increase of panperi,
the increase of vice and dissipation. Parochial aid
extended to persona supposed not able to find. employ-
meld, was found to be attended with consequeuree
most injuiiona, most destructive of the beat habits and
the moral character of the people. It took away the
necessity of labonring—..llll•ll to indulge in Welless
became paupers. Thus the feelingsof the people were
gradually blunted, and the !shim ing chats. formerlv
considered with so much justice the very strength and.
pride of the State. were in danger of becoming a dis-
grace and a hurthen. The evil eves oils of a mom
alarming kind—an evil which Parliament would lie
anxious to remove unless in removing it the countryi
should be repotted to still greater danger. The evi
consisted in an unlimited provision for the poor; the,
obvious remedy was to limit that provision. The
measure, therefore, which he would wish to submit to
the Hume, was to declare a maximum; Ilse tate* of
the last year, though aot the highest, were nearly so;
and it was perhaps the best period to select. because
the nominal value of money had more nearly approaelt-
ed Its real value than in the preceding years.
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rsie
would therefore propose 10 min a* a nratimunt. the
rates of the rear ending; the 25th of March, 1921,aud
accordingly to declare it to be unlawful to pay any
larger sate for poors'-rate than was assessed off the
land for the year ending the 25th of March, 1821.
The next question was, the propriety of enforcing a
different system in administering relief. It never was
the intention of the Parliament that passed the Sta-
tute of Elizabeth, to relieve persons who were able to
work and who preferred a life of idleness. The object
of the statute was to relieve those who, by age and in-
6rntities. were unable to labour. That wise and hu-
mane principle was departed front in modern times,
and incalculable miselt!ef was the consequence. At
the present moment, persons who were married, and
had large famlies depending in some degree on parish
relief, coal.' not I.e fairly •leprived of that relief.—
Tinse should be allowed to enable those persons to re-
cover themselves; but the evil had been carried to so
great an extent, that persons marrying looked forward
as a matter of course to have their second child sui.
ported by the parish. Ile would be glad to know why
!inch persons ought nut to practise those industrious
and economical !habits which all other persons in so-
, arty were compelled to practise. It was for the pur-
pose of stopping the progress of this evil, that he pro►
posed as the second part of the Bill, that after the
passing of the Bill, no Parish Officer or Justice of
Peace should be authorised to give relief to any person
who, at the time of the passing of the Act, should be
unmarried, either for himself or for any member of
his family, finless such person should be afflicted wills j
infirmity of body or old age. The poor and industrious \
man was now obliged to provide for the idle, and the
natural effect was, that he was inclined also to become
one of the idle class, whom lie saw often provided for
better than himself. llis third measure was
respec ing which there was likely to be a great
iliffereare of opinion. though he had given it so much
i consideration that he did not think his own mind
could be shaken respecting it. It was to repel% the
laws anthorising the removal of persons chargeable, or
likely to become chargeable. to a parish.—(Hear.) The
present ',Faints originated with the 13th and 14th of
Charles li., the effect of which was to restrict the free
! cirenlation of labour, and sy.lijecteil the labourer, if lie
\could not, from any temporary cause, find bread in the
parish where he resided, to be removed to the parish
where lie was born, or allege his father or grandfather
Iwas horn, though perhaps there was a certainty that lie
could not find employment there, and that he must re-
main a pauper all the days of his life. A more oppres-
sive law was not to he found iu any code in F.urope.—
(Hear, bear.) It in fact made poverty a crime. If a
law was now propoaed, specifically and avowedly sob-
jerting a man to be banialied from one place to another,
because he conld not find employment from sickness, or
any other rause, or conld not get enough to feed his
family from the dearness of provision, the man would
he ale-need nut only mail, but inhuman.—(Hear.) Yet
this in reality was the law as it existed tinder another
name.--(dear.) This law had been found so oppres-
sive that many attempts hail been made to modify it by
exceptions—as fur immure. when a man had been hired
for a year in a parish, or rented a tenement of 101. or
paid parish rates, or served parish offices. It was said
by Dr. Burn, that there were more decision' on this
Act than on any law in the Statute Book. The Doctor 1.
might have sail--more litfration.—((dear.) There was
probably more litigation created by this law than by all
the laws front Magna Charm downwards. An artificial,
absurd, and oppressive system had beets created, and it
became half the linsitmea of society to execute it. He
(Mr. S.) therefore proposed to make a provision that it
should nut he lawful to remove any man from the parish
in which he resided, as the ground of his being charge-
able, or liliely to berome chargeable. Ile expected that
the manufacturing, town: would object to this as they
had dyne to the provision for making two year's real-
thence a settlement. (*oiler the present system, when
there was atry cessation of employment in a matinfac.
luring town, the labourers were scattered all over Eng-
laml. From Manche ter. for instance, be had inch'
loads sent to London by the coach. and some even to
the West of England. Ile should take
alas tow
of
Manchester as an example, becanae he was best ar-
yl tinted with it. and because the Poor Laws were very
exactly administered there. The effect on that town
was. that in Manchester the rates were less than in any
agricultural parish io England. Their highest rate,
which in lalti was as. Oil. and at that time a great mass
of county rates from the northern part of the county
was thilliWll Ull the town. There rates now were
.Is. 6,1., or four-fifths of the rent, while many
parishes in the Siritli and Writ of England, with
agricultural population, paid t).14. in the pound.—
Thi4 effect. tearing the poor entirely oat of the linea-
tion, was not just. The poor who had enriched the
town of Manch/stet by their labour, were sent away
on am re: Cation of trade, to burthen agricultural
parisli!is that had derived no benefit from them.—
(Hear, hear.)—By abolishing this system, the strong-
est motive would be given to economy in the adminis-
tration of the poor rates. He knew an instance of a
large factory at Manchester, where not a man had ever
hecome chargeable to the parish, because a regulation
wan wade by which all per% ins employed there sub-
scribed to a fund to protect themselves against casual-
ties—lint what would the effect be even upon Man-
chester? let 1515, 16, Manchester paid fur the pour
of other township' which it maintained, 25271. of
which probably great part would be returned to it. But
on the other limo!, Manchester paid to other towns
14721.; 2721. fur removals; .21101. for a charge. he
I should be tender of counsel's fees: 21,01. for Soliciturs''
bills and other entente', which, with these, amounted
to 2.332/. %miss; a balance of only 1921. iti its favor;
sod in the next year, which was the greatest ere,
known, the balance only amounted to 6001. This was an
approximation to the inerease of charge which might
hr thrown by his measure on such a town as Manches-
ter ; but even if it were 10,0901. a-year. it was but fair
that it should pay for the maintenance of the labourers
by whom it was enriched. 'lnc law fur the removal
a the pour of other eunntries he did not now intend to
meddle with, though he had an opinion respecting it ;
host he shook& remark. that ois account of the injurious
manner from which the settlement laws operated upon
the English labourers (for lathe massfaetoring towns
all expedients were resorted to to prevent them from
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Ilials had been collected at Manchester. The Leith
poor formed a large holly., tea the saint applied to their
maintenance varied from 1,6 a 6/. W ii.Olitti.; bat it was
remarkable, that from the !titbits of that excellent awl
Industries's people, the Sews, then were only full(
families that had ever required relief. The lion. and
Learned tieutleman then recapitulated his tirme
measuree--1. to fix a maximinu of poor's mos—
t to deny relief, moist to the impotent— 3. to take
away the oppressive laws of settlement and removal.
He knew, lie observed, that it had been held oat that
the fear of removal operated as a check to pauperism.
This check would not be needed when his Other atm
sores were adopted. 't he proper check was the fear
of poverty. That there would be times when there
wonld be need of relief for pores ty, beyond what 14‘
measures would supply, he admitted, *but to reale:,
this they might trust to what bad never been le noun to
fail—the benevolence of the country. Tenyorareji,
tress should be met by temporary remr•les, betties
should not perpetuate a law which went on incressmi
the evil which it professed to remedy. lie coachelel
by moving for leave to bring in a bill to amend the
Law relating to the Relief of the Poor in England.
—(Hear, hear.)
LORI( LONDONDRRRY gave his thanks to the
Honourable and Learned tientlesian for bringing this
subject before Parliament ; and hoped licit because be
(Lord 1..) now abstained from giving a decided opi-
nion, it would not be thought that he wanted zeal oe
the subject. The House would be better able to form
a jedgment when the measures were before them in
the shape of a Bill, which he hoped the Honourable
and Learned lientleman would bring in.
Sir R. WILSON said, that though be mint *Anew-
lege the good intentions of his Honourable and Learn-
ed Friend, he must deprecate any proposition to take
from the unemployed industrious poor a subsistence to
which they hail just the same tight as every linden=
i had to his estate. if they wished to reduce paaperhm,
they should reduce taxation.
Mr. CALUR.wr thanked bin Hon. and Leaned
1 Ft lend for hating brought the subject forward, thork
' he did not agree with his views in all respect% to
! talking of the amount of these rates, the mum et
the increase hail always been left out of sight. Tice
I amount of taxation, and the mistaken administrative
iof the Poor Laws themselves, eitfficiently *meats&
for it. When the subject was discussed in detail, he
Iwould undertake to whew that as the price of rem
increased, tie wages of labour diminished; aid that
thence an irresistible necessity had arisen of eepplyisg
from eonte other fund than wages, the food of the
labourer. The mischievous practice had theirs arises
of paying a part of the wages of the agricultural
labourer in the shape of Poor's Rate, so that it ern
unfair to say that the real preesure of the Pool'
Rates had increased in proportion to its nominal
atnonnt. The first proposition of his Honourable
and Learned Friend was to establish a me.rimew of
rates. This had been tried in the loci! Bills, and
failed. The second to bring back the strict Admi-
nistration of the law of Elisabeth, was a wise met-
sure. Since the Report of the Committee on the Poor
Laws. however, the mode in which the Magistrates
ailtaiaistered these laws was more strict, curtest, sai
effiracioes than before. Those who with itlea(lfr.
Caleraft) were old enough to remember the otitis of
the more lax interpretation of the law of Elititt,
knew that it bad been caused by the political state d
the country. He ens then acting as a saris/giatsig he
the Country, tied there was so sudden l
price of provision, unaccompanied by a rise in the
wages of labour, that they did not know what lei
with the labouring i•optilation. If they returned tot
strict administration of the law, the price of pro
visions must he kept down, or the price of Wow
must rise. As to the law for repealing the soft
itlaws,
twist
laws, he was thothtful as to the effect, and fearoi
would meet with much opposition. He had, here
ever, no objection to tier producti.m of his Honoerabb
Friend's Bill. He (Mr. Calcraft) did not view with
such desponding feelings, as • e others, the Org.
lion of the Poor Laws. Ile saw nothing in the che
racier of the labouring people of this country to be
duce him to entertain thaw feelings. A mote ewe
Retie, laborious, intinstri t•tt s, and more obedient peer
lotion never existed in any country in which thee
was any spirit of liberty pervaditoc society--(Htet.
hear.)—Seventy years ago there were the eater OW
1 ropheclee that were now heard of the effect of the
Poor Law', in depraving the utorsle,,and snresseers*
the energy of this country. Yet the prog uf the
country ite commerce and agricnltstre, and its w
yew' in arms had been more sign .1 than at any lee
tore petite!.
Mr. S. BOCRXE congratulated the House that de
subject had been taken up by bands so able as 00°4
the lion. and Learned tient. A. to the pesPv`iti's
for a maximum. it had been tried in the Isle condo Wght
which to this purpose was as
in the
puge tio
as a separate comusenity, as all the hes of tbit
island were united. yet they bad been obliged Pat
ply to Parliatnent to remove or alter the nosilt
Ile (Mr. S. H.) should he ineonsiftent, if he 11 in
agree with the principles laid •lown by the 110. "1"
Learned Gentleman, as be bad attempted to detslir
'ch he bsi
them in the Report of the Committee of wht
been Chairman. Bat he bad found a great 4111111'1
ids'
in proposing a thorough change in a system oi.
woven with the whole state of the country. t. 7..
endeavoured, however, to bring the whole %obit(' in
before the Honer, proposing, at the same titee•
__%"'
sores for improving the administration of the 7,_
laws, which might be subsidiary to any
fete
pavement. The Select Vestry Act bad prat
best effects. though it was oppose". in wake to
bv the Parish Officers. who had au interest in tke Pl'
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lax interpretation to tat
t it had been canoed by the political stilt d
a.
ry. He mss then acting as a Meg-lents%
try, ar.d there was so sudden a rise laths V
provision, unaccompanied by a rise is ths
labour, that they did nut know what tells
labouring ipopulatiun. I f they returned Ms
ninistration of the law, the price of pre
must he kept down, or the price of labile
As to the law for repealing the untested
was doubtful as to the effect, and Weill
eel with much opposition. He had, lie*
abjection to the promineti.m of his Hennerabb
Bill. He (Mr. Calcraft) not view with
pending feelings, as ,Dote others, the err
,he Poor Laws. Ile saw nothing in the At
r the labouring people of this cotton is it
nto entertain those feelings. A mot mrt
iborions, intlnstri t•tt s, and more obedient pepr
ever existed in any country in which thee
spirit of liberty pervatline, society--(lletr.
-Seventy years ago there were the fame glow!
Iles that were now heard of time effect of the
stvs, in depraving the morals, aml anomie(
rev of this country. Yet the 'progress annul
tie
r iscominerce and agriculture, and its sw
in arms had been more sign .1 than at any fe-
rial.
S. BOCRXE congratulated the Hesse that t‘r
had been taken up by hands so Ole 0 Wok
In. and Learned tient. As to the preposifie
taximunt, it had been tried itt the Isle ef %NO
to this purpose was much in the flame coaditio
4I
'paraie community, as all the parishes of di
were united, yet they loaml hern obliged
Parliament to restore or alter the sesii•-
Ir. S. B.) should he ineon)iftent, if he o_lll4
with the principles laid down by the MO.
ed Gentleman, as he had attempted to
in the Report of the Committer of which beim'
Chairman. But he had found a great 4641! 4,
'posing a thorough change in a system •it'
n with the whole state of the conn:ry.
ivoured, however, to bring the whole subject f°l
r the How, proposing. at the same thaem
fur improving the adutinistration of the Ifeel!'s
, which might be subsidiary to any fate e
ement. 'the Select Vestry Art hail premiered
effects, though it was opposes! in some iod°ll7:
Ito Parish Officers, who had an interest in thew':
inistratiou of palish money. In Sperm,
-ipnry, the rates bad heels reduced Is. 34.;
r near Richutond (Ibirkshim e) in the sante Mr
k h 110
and. ill the town of Preston, :bey were 001! 411'
re it' the pound illi the quarter, t-ong
been Is. 3.1 the su ttttt ter quArter, Wilirb.
'rely attributed by his tornwootislent 10 dot
a til;
try Bill. Ito should have another appertin ,
to his opinion respecting the propral
a. As for the pruposit;on for 'fitting
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rd plat, great objectios has' Vett 011:7.01.
troll for osakiag two years' residencst
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