now are, should live on the distresses of a community; and any government permitting such an abuse, deserves to be dismissed. This fund is said to be about twenty thousand pounds per annum.
I shall now conclude this plan with enumerating the several particulars, and then proceed to other matters.
The enumeration is as follows:—
First, abolition of two millions poor-rates.
Secondly, provision for two hundred and fifty thousand poor families.
Thirdly, education for one million and thirty thousand children.
Fourthly, comfortable provision for one hundred and forty thousand aged persons.
Fifthly, donation of twenty shillings each for fifty thousand births.
Sixthly, donation of twenty shillings each for twenty thousand marriages.
Seventhly, allowance of twenty thousand pounds for the funeral expenses of persons travelling for work, and dying at a distance from their friends.
Eighthly, employment, at all times, for the casual poor in the cities of London and Westminster.
By the operation of this plan, the poor laws, those instruments of