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xii The next communication is upon workhouses of united hundreds; an inquiry of no small importance at the present moment.The mode of their management, and the objections and inconveniences that attend them, even under the best regulations and management, are stated with clearness and perspicuity.The rules of a spinning school, established with success at Oakham, upon the principles of author:Benjamin Thompson, are the next in order;—a school, where the poor attend with pleasure and regularity, and thankfully receive the benefit of a cheaper and more nourishing diet, supplied to them at a very small price;—and for these reasons simply—because they are allowed to continue free agents, and to retain an option on the subject; and because they have the whole of their earnings inviolably at their own disposal.May the example be speedily followed in other parts of England!