The Pamphleteer (Volume 15-16)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON THE INCREASE OF CRIMES, EDUCATION OF THE POOR, ADD THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS; 21 better TO SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH. By WM. LISLE BOWLES, A. M, One of ha Majaty's Jiuticct of the Peace for the County of Wiks, AMD CHAPIAI.N TO BIS KOYAL HIGHNESS THE PEINCE REGENT. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: ADVERTISEMENT In what I have said of the immoral tendency of a certain mode of antinomian and un-apostolic preaching, it ought to be observed, that many in the Church are as blame-able as those out of it, but none are so pernicious in this respect as the Seceders. For the want of novelty in what is here said respecting the operation of the poor Laws, I trust it will not be thought necessary to make any apology. I am convinced that if the amelioration begins to be visible, it is owing to the accumulated evidence of individual information. N. B.?The price of labor, and allowance from the .parish rates, are stated according to the scale of the district in which I reside: they are higher in other places?in Somersetshire I believe they are lower. THOUGHTS ON THE INCREASE OF CRIMES, ITT DEAR SIR, Having had occasion to address a friend of yours, some time since, on a subject materially connected with the welfare and high moral character of the country, I trust I shall be forgiven, if, once more leaving for a moment my immediate and appropriate avocations, and actuated, as I was then, by no other motive than regard to truth and humanity, I venture to submit to you some Thoughts on the Increase of Crimes'' in the present day: and, together with this momentous topic, on the Education of the Poor, and the National Schools. I have been led to address these Thoughts to you, in consequence of the part you have taken, the tempered energies, and the ...