munication is on parochial relief, and the mode and principle upon which it has been administered by the magistrates of the hundred of Stoke.
I cannot close, without suggesting to the reader some of the very beneficial effects, which may be produced by union and perseverance in a proper system of conduct with regard to the poor; our present parochial expences being at the same time diminished, and a very gentle and gradual variation being made in our code of poor laws.Let it be imagined that the landowner may be awakened to his real[1] interest, and the industrious labourer supplied with a sufficient portion of garden ground, and, in many instances, with the means of keeping his cow:—that neat and comfortable cottages supply the place of those wretched hovels which disgrace many parts of the kingdom;—that the fire-places of cottagers be improved, and their supply of
- ↑ See the Earl of Winchilsea's letter on the advantage of cottagers renting land, 1796.
