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ed on lately to witness its effects—to see its
misery. One family at Repton, a family of
eight children, has been left entirely without
provision, by a man who enjoyed a situation of
five hundred a-year in quarterly payments.”
“That man is, however, guiltless. What
could he save out of five hundred a-year?- How
could he live on less?”’- replied the doctor. ~
“Live upon four, and insure his life for the
benefit of those children. Nay,” continued
Charles, in the vehemence of his feelings, “the
man who does not provide means of. existence
for his helpless children, until they are able to
provide for themselves, cannot be called a rea:
sonable person; and the legislature ought to
oblige such to contribute to a fund to prevent
the spread of the worst sort of pauperism—that
which comes upon well-born children fromthe
carelessness or selfishness of their parents. God
in his wisdom, and certainly in his mercy, re-
moved the poor broken-hearted widow of the
person I alluded to a month after his death;
and the infant, whose nourishment from its
birth had been mingled with bitterness, followed
in a few days. 1 saw myself seven children
crowd round the coffin that was provided by
charity; I saw three taken to the workhouse,
and the elder four distributed amongst kind-
hearted hard-working people, who are trying to
inure the young soft hands, accustomed to silk-
en idleness, to the toils of homely industry. I