iv Although you should not proceed beyond the Bills which you have lately introduced, you will still be a more effectual reformer of the Poor Laws than any of the Eminent Men who have heretofore made similar attempts. If to these Bills you add some further measures, conceived in the same spirit, you will probably have done all that can be done, or ought to be done. It is to be hoped that a powerful auxiliary to these temporate reforms will be found in the Society for the suppression of Mendicity, to which you have given your public sanction:-for, certainly, a Law for the systematic relief of Indigence, and the extensive prevalence of Mendicity, ought not to be found in the same Country. I must be permitted to add, that regarding my association with the Members of the Committee on the Poor Laws, as the most gratifying occurrence in my short parliamentary life, I esteem nothing more highly than the opportunity which it has afforded me of improving an acquaintance with the Chairman. Believe me to be, My dear Sir, Yours very sincerely, THO. PERE. COURTENAY. The Right Honourable William Sturges Bourne, &c. &c. Sc. .V CONTENTS. III. Of a total, but gradual Repeal of the Law of Relief; and first, of schemes for withholding the benefit of the Law from VII. Further observations upon the subjects of the two preced- ing sections; and especially on the connection between Wages and |