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4 | f ilM El ^ absfclv the poor rates o € England w ^ e < & $ && * & & yOfoOWM * a yeax , und tt » e population of E ^ Wj ^ waj » ab ^ u | ^ qi ^ ' l W tm ^ fc > that of Irtl ^ ia -tto iraesrat -dityY , : M > ; .,, He denounces the voluntary principle , and to show tlia dagger mt trusting so important an institution to it , he describes the
declining state of the mendicity societies . It appears that the subscriptions % o the Dublin Mendicity have decreased on ^ -half ill ft . few years . The dispensaries have met with no better fete ; they ai $ frequently discontinued , owing to the impossibility of ebta&ing the funds required for their support . Thinking that ibid $ y * tem is likely to be brought forward in support of the
Voluntary ey * tem , he at some length shows that the law connected tlttpe ^ ita i * based on a mos t fan tastic pri nciple , and ; open to the * r « 4 * a&t abode . Mr llevans then gives it as his opinion , that in tut present state of Ireland it would be impossible to raise the lum requisite for the support of the poor .
*• Ireland , in her present state , does not cost Great Britain less than Z rititttOfc and a half annually for military and police . It would b& J well ; 4 ^ lry whether SOOjOOOJ . / employed to prevent the fear of destitution ^ would not be more effective than 1 , 500 , 000 * . expended to cdetfcft-those who will not starve quietly . 1 cannot believe that the people , who gave 20 , 000 , 000 / . to serve the claims of the negro , will not give half the annual interest of that sum to as&ist thoat
. whom their money ha $ been so lavishly expended to degrade . But I have one word more to say to the English aad Scotch , a * . mftR of . bu&iuesa . If they do not , ia a direct manner , undertake the 4 « peafte of relieving the poor of Ireland , expedients , in the sh * pe oi Gove « M 9 e « 4 loan * ( which will never be repaid ) , will take ten time * the
upOuot from their pockets , and they will have the discomfiture of nftdtfia that their money has been lavishly expended , to the benefit 6 t a Wff private individuals , whilst the miseries of the poor remain unmitigated /' Mr llevans proposes to pay the money out of the Exchequer , In Which we woula certainly agree , at least for the first few years ,
rather than have the cost a question in the way of giving Ireland p oor-laws forthwith . He proposes putting the Irish Foor-laws into the hands of the ^ English Commissioners , and furnishes , we think , good reasons for so doing . He then discusses the question of relieving , by employing the people on public works , and shows that tlie machinery of an institution for so doing , to l > e « flfeotu ^ l , would be most costly , and that peculation to the most tremendous exten t * could not be prevented . Other ( eviJU are ajso ppiixteci out , md he < # nclu 4 ^ that tli e relief o Irelan d cannot t > e foi ^ n ^ in public work * , In tJwjjrBwin we agreewitU Mr Itevan * in , l ^ xex ^ y Air Jrewi , > TfM * Que » tion p , U tUejre any ot ^ . ^ f ] y )^ y ? yf $ know g £ tton $ i and it remains with oux op ^ oa ^ aU 4 ^ t jpj ^ l y ^ * show that
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 518, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/58/
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