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 ¬what can be saved amongst the lower classes, instead of being deposited weekly, for their own benefit, is consumed nightly, in haunts where liquid fire is prepared for them, utterly destroy- ing their constitutions, and disqualifying them from all the duties of good husbands, or fathers, or subjects, not one of which an habitual drunkard was ever yet qualified to fulfil. ¬" But the subject of your pauperism is far from being finished. — Humanity cannot pronounce that the poor shall receive no alms when they can work, if there be no work for them. — ¦ Every thing therefore you have said regarding those oppressive burthens, in the whole of which I have just concurred with you, must go com- pletely for nothing, and be without any possible remedy until this radical and destructive defect in your present condition is removed. ¬" Your laws for the support of the poor were made in a sound and wholesome state of your country, when it was a just legal presump- tion, ¬