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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783; With Notes and Other Illustrations Volume 23 - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ...that nation we h_ave_ so much despised, as we were at the beginning of the war. Ruin stares us in the face in every part of the kingdom. Every manufacturing town is labouring under the greatest misery. London shows no less than eight thousand Spitalfields manufacturers who are starving. Norwich, another great trading town (from which I have appeared in the convention as a delegate) is in so dismal a situation, that the poor-rates, which were at first, two years ago I think, or 18 months ago, hut 3s. 6d. in the pound, now amount to the enormous sum of 17:. 6d.; and, by Lady-day next, they will be 20:. in the ponn, owing to the present war. Gentlemen, I hope you will not think it iinpcrtinent in me to follow the example that has been set me, of reading from a newspaper. It is not altogether so pleasing a fact to me, as that which the prosecutor stated from the Gazetteer was to him. It gave him satisfaction that it criminated me,---it gives me pain that I am obliged to criminate those who are in office. I will read to you a letter from a clergyiiian who visited the Spitalfields' weavers, and made a report of that visit. You will by this sec part of the distress in which they are now plunged, owing to the war: it is a letter addressed to the reverend Mr. T Reads it from Morning Chronicle as follows: To the Rev. Mr. T. Dear Sir;--You desired me to give you my opinion of the present state of want and distress among the weavers in Spitalfields. Being physician to the London Dispensary, where between two and 3,000 of them annually apply for medical relief, I am called frequently to visit their wretched hahitations, there the first thing that commonly presents itself to view, is an em ty loom, and a starving.farnily. Some have had only half their...
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1763-1835
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1130698556
- ISBN 13 9781130698558
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages630
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