bourers are to receive. This is a not exceed the following allow

When the family shall consist of a man and his wife, with one or two children; or a man with two or three children; or a woman with two or three children-To each of them the price of a gallon loaf, of the best wheaten bread, and 4d. each over per week.

ever, let us see it first, and then When the family shall consist of a

make our remarks

it. upon

New Regulation of Allowance to

the Poor.

AT a Meeting of the Magistrates acting in and for the Division of Fawley, in the county of Southampton, at their Petty Sessions, held at the Grand Jury Chamber, Winchester, the 31st day of August 1822: Present

The Rev. Edmund

And a large and respectable number of the Yeomanry residing within the division, who were requested by the Magistrates to attend on this occasion.

man and his wife, with three or four children; or a man with four or five children; or a woman with four or five children-To each of them the price of a gallon loaf, of the best wheaten bread, and 3d. each over per week.

When the family shall consist of a man and his wife, with five or more children; or a man with › six or more children; or a woman with six or more children To each of them the price of a gallon loaf, of the best wheaten bread, and 2d. each over per week.

Poulter (Chairman), the Hon. and Rev. Augustus George And whereas a practice has been Legge, Sir Thomas Baring, prevalent amongst the labouring Bart. the Rev. William Hill classes to absent themselves durNewbolt, D. D. William Ne-ing a part of the year when their vill and Geo. Lovell, Esqrs. services are most required, and to the Rev. F. W. Swanton, and return after the harvest, and bethe Rev. Robert Wright, eight come a burthen to their respective of his Majesty's Justices of the parishes, the Justices recommend Peace; to the officers of every parish, when and his wife, or a man with one child, the family shall consist of a man to offer to each such man, 4s. per week from Michaelmas to Lady Day, and 5s. per week from Lady Day to Michaelmas, so that he might be enThe Magistrates having taken gaged to serve the whole year; and into their consideration the allow- any man refusing that offer shall ances usually made by this Bench not be entitled to any relief. If no to Paupers applying for relief, and such offer be made, or no sufficient the diminished price of every ar-employment can be found whereby ticle of life, resolved unanimously, any such man can maintain himself That in future the Magistrates, and his wife or child, the allowance acting at this Bench, in making is to be 3s. 6d. per week, and no their orders, either collectively or individually, for the maintenance and relief of such Paupers, will

more.

To every unmarried man, the Justices recommend the officers of

every parish to offer 3s. per week | WILLIAM NEVILL and GEORGE from Michaelmas to Lady Day, and

4s. per week from Lady Day to Mi- LovELL, who are simply “Es chaelmas, so that he may be en

gaged to serve the whole year; quires," the world does not know and any unmarried man refusing that

offer shall not be entitled to any relief. so much about, how well soever

If no such offer be made, or no

sufficient employment can be found, they may be known in Hamps whereby any such unmarried man shire. The rest are persons of can maintain himself, he shall be

allowed 2s. 6d. per week, and no great weight to this community;

more.

To a woman with one child, 38, 6d. per week, and no more.

To every single woman, the sum of 2s. 6d. per week, and no more.

I mean yourself and the five para

sons, whom I shall take one by

one.

You are the owner of an immense estate, which was the Duke

And the Justices do declare, That all paupers maintained and relieved by their parishes, and able to work, shall, for the allowances so to be made to them, be compelled to of Bedford's. Your Father was, perform such proper work as the parish

officers, shall direct or require of not a great many years ago, them; and it is earnestly recom

mended to the parish officers to trader in the city of London, under provide as far as possible employ

ment for all such paupers, and if the name of FRANCIS BARING, they neglect or refuse to perform the work found for them, they will

be punished as the law directs.

Ordered that the foregoing resolutions be inserted in the Hamp shire County Newspaper.

who became a great maker of

loans to the Government. Your

brother ALEXANDER has the estate

near you, which belonged to Lord NORTHINGTON; and some of your family have lately bought the inmense estate that was Lord PETRE's in Suffolk. Of the connexion with BINGILAM of Philadelphia I shall not speak at present, though that family was great in its way, too. You have two brothers in the House of Com

the large incomes that the most of them derive from those posts. mons, besides yourself; you being

.

one of the Members for the Bo- of Alton, and who has besides, rough of High Wycombe. Your the livings of Holybourn, Binpedigree, as I find it in the Baro- stead and Kingsley. I will just netage, traces y you back all the add that this Chairman married a way up to a Dutch descent; but

what is greater than all these

sister of the late Bishop of Winchester's wife.

The Hon. and Rev. AUGUSTUS LEGGE, is, to begin with, Rector

claims to distinction, I find your name enrolled in the Bible Society, in that for the Propagation of Wonston, next he is Archof Christian Knowledge; and, to deacon of Winchester, and next crown the whole, in the Loyal he is a Prebendary of WinchesBridge Street Association for op- ter. He has a brother who posing the progress of disloyal is Bishop of Oxford; another and seditious principles, where brother a Commissioner of the I find you down for a subscription Navy; another an Admiral; and of ten pounds ten shillings; which his nephew is the Earl of Dartyou will observe is rather more mouth. than one year's wages, allowed by this manifesto to a labouring man; those wages being no more than nine pounds two shillings.

The Rev. WILLIAM HILL NEWBOLT is a Canon of Winchester, is Rector of Morestead, Rector of Mottiston and Shorwell, Vicar

The Rev. EDMUND POULTER, of Collingbourn and Vicar of who was the Chairman upon this

occasion, is a Prebendary of Win

Kingston.

The Rev. F. W. SWANTON has

chester, and is Rector of the pa- the Living of Hillington in Norrishes of Meon Stoke and Sober-folk.

ton. He has one son who is The Rev. ROBERT WRIGHT is Rector of Buriton and Peters-Rector of Ilchen Abbotts and field and also Rector of Burstow. Rector of Ovington. Another son he has who is Vicar

Thus these fire Reverend par

Diminished price? Diminished means lessened, or lowered; and, certainly, the price is less than it was a few years back, and even less than it was last year. But it year

sons have, amongst them, o e" their consideration the dimiArchdeaconry, two Prebends, one" nished price of every article of Canonship, four Rectories, two "life" Vicarages, and three other Liv ings; besides what things are in possession of their relations. This is all that I get at from the books that I have in my possession. Persons possessed of better is not less than it was in the sources of information would, doubtless, be able to discover still further reasons for supposing, that these must be men of great and surare merit.

Having now brought my read-ers acquainted with the parties, from under whose authority this document came forth, I shall now proceed to remark upon the document itself.” It has been published; and published, too, by order of you and the rest of these

1790; but it is, in fact, a great deal more; for there is the additional duty on malt, salt, soap, candles, leather and a great many other things. It is clear that the, labouring man's wages ought, therefore, to be greater now than they were in the year 1790.

Although I have so lately (in my Letter to Mr. Fawkes,) quoted the evidence which Mr. ELLMAN gave before the Agricultural Committee of 1821, I must quote that evidence again here. Mr. Ell

magistrates. It is said to contain your unanimous resolution. The man, in the first place, told the only reasons, on which the rates Committee: "When I began buof wages and allowance, is found-siness as a farmer, forty-five ed, is to be found (if it can be " years ago, there was not a lacalled a reason at all), in the" bouring man in the parish who following vague words, "The did not brew his own beer, and "enjoy it by his own fire-side.

M gistrates having taken into

"Now, there is not one of them week's wages then gave eighteen

"that does it." Here was matter gallons of the best wheat; while for a Legislative Assembly to re- the week's wages in 1790 gave flect on. Here was a proof of the only, about sixteen gallons and change that had taken place, dur a half; and, besides, the labouring those thirty years that our ing man of 1790 had to pay on rulers had been bragging of pro- his malt, his salt, his leather, and various other things, more sperity.

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And now let us look at the cause than twice as much tax as the of this melancholy change. For labouring man of Mr. Tull's time had to pay. Accordingly, the many years previous to the year ninety, wheat had been on an poor rates in the year 1790 were average, at about four shillings two millions and a half in place and threepence a bushel; and of being about three quarters of a million as they had been in the Mr. Ellman's evidence tells us, that the common daily wages (ex-time of Mr. Tull. clusive of hay-time and harvest) Great inroads upon the labourer had been one shilling and six-had, therefore, been made by the pence; that is to say, nine shil- hellish paper - money, by the lings a-week. So that the day- ruinous and cruel system of loans labouring man earned two bushels and paper-money, even in the of best wheat a-week, and rather year 1790. But, then, the labourmore. He was not so well off ing man got nine shillings a-week, then, as he had been in the time or the price of about sixteen galof Mr. Tull; for it appears, from lons and a half of wheat. Since Mr. Tull's book, that the daily the year 1790, the tax upon malt pay of the labourer was one shil- has been doubled; the tax upon ling, when the price of seed-wheat leather has been doubled; the was three shillings a bushel, nine tax upon, tea, sugar, soap, has gallon measure; so that, the been greatly augmented. There