A Brief Review of the Causes Which Have Progressively Operated to Enhance the Price of Provisions, but Particularly of Bread-corn: With Suggestions As ... the Recurrence of a Similiar Calamity - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801 Excerpt: ... L (' 86 ) Comes would have enabled them, forty or fifty years ago, to live in a comfortable way; though many of them now cannot procure the bare necessaries of life. There is not a class of the people more in need of relief in times of scarcity. They-were once in a decent middle class, but now they are the most helpless, and consequently the poorest, of the poor. Whether by any means their case could be ameliorated, especially the aged and infirm, is a subject well worth the attention of political calculators. As to the poor clergy and superannuated officers, it becomes us to leave their case to the consideration of the church and government. With respect to other classes of the people, societies might be formed in each parish, similar to Doctor Webster's scheme for establishing a fund for the widows of the clergymen of the Church of Scotland. That fund has increased so much since its establishment about fifty years go, that now it is rich enough to afford to p?7 the widows double the original annuities, or to reduce the annual contributions by the clergy to half-the sum stipulated by the plan when instituted. There is scarcely a trade in the kingdom which has not a fund made up of the annual contributions of the members for nearly the same end; and there are many other societies incorporated by by voluntary acts and rules peculiar to them selves, for the like purposes. The scheme which I hint at may he more difficult in the arrangement, as the society will he composed of people of different classes and trades, a.1 the funds should he for the benefit not only oe the widows and infant children of subscriber. mt j$ /. even for the subscribers themselves,.r inay happen to be reduced to indigent circumstances through age or infirmities, after the lapse of i...

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