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comforts elsewhere; and if well-disposed, and
not spending his money at the ale-house, he is
induced to marry to have a home to which he
can resort, encouraged to do so by the cer-
tainty that the parish will provide for his fa-
mily ; and that his pay will increase with their
number." "In every other station of life there
is some spur to exertion, in the hope of bettering
the present condition ; the mechanic can rise to
be a master in the trade of which he is only the
journeyman; the manufacturer by his attention
and usefulness, may obtain offices of higher trust
and emolument ; but the agricultural labourer
has no such encouraging incentive; whatever
his prudence and industry may have been in his
youth, he has nothing to which, as soon as his
strength declines, he can look forward, but a.
dependence on parochial relief,"
After these truly christian and affecting obser-
vations, our Reverend Author quotes a remark
extracted from a pamphlet, entitled, *" The case
of Labourers in Husbandry, by the Rev. David
Davies, Rector of Barkham, Berks." " Sound
policy," says the Author, "requires that as
many individuals as possible in a State should
have an interest in the soil, as attaching them to
* See Appendix, No. 4.—A List of Publications.