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Lord Camden, Lord Gage, and several other noblemen
and gentlemen, with equal liberality and success;
indeed in almost every part of Sussex and Kent, the
kindest exertions are making by the nobility, gentry
and clergy in favor of the unemployed poor. However,
I cannot help regretting that the impolitic division of
our land into counties, and our unwise laws of settle-
ment, should prevent the County of Kent taking
advantage of land so favourably situated for the em-
ployment of her poor. It is well known that whilst
the County of Sussex possesses such an immense
quantity of waste land, the County of Kent adjoining
her has not more than about twenty thousand acres,
the soil of which is in general of a bad quality, abound-
ing in gravel and sand. Surely then she should be
assisted by her neighbour, Sussex, who has an extent
of waste land far beyond the power of her population to
cultivate.
I have omitted mentioning, that I felt much concern
to observe in those two counties, that at a time when
the dwelling-houses of all classes in his Majesty's
dominions have been so greatly improved, the poor
alone should be excluded from similar advantages in
their habitations. I am sorry to remark, that in general,
the houses of the poor, though let to them at a very
high price, in Kent and Sussex, are not in such a state
as they ought to be, In particular, I observed a house
within a mile of Tunbridge Wells, in such a state, that
no person who valued his hounds or his pointers, would
keep them in such a dismantled cottage; so out of
repair, that the elements were not excluded. I found
in this cottage a miserable inhabitant, who has brought
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