16 Parishes without the Walls, in London and Southwark, average 60_l._ each 960 0 0 --------------- £.1,930 0 0 23 Out-parishes in Middlesex and Surry, average 100_l._ each 2,300 0 0 10 Parishes in Westminster, average 100_l._ each 1,000 0 0 --- --------------- 146 £.5,230 0 0 --- This sum (which is supposed to be not much above one half of the average Annual disbursements of the 146 Parishes above-mentioned; especially since it has been shewn, that the expence in St. Giles' and St. George Bloomsbury alone, has been 2000_l._ in one year) will probably, with oeconomy and good management, be found sufficient for all the relief that is required; more especially as the object is not to maintain the indigent, but to put them in a way of supporting themselves by occasional pecuniary aids well and judiciously applied. The experiment is certainly worth trying. In its execution some of the most respectable and intelligent individuals in the Metropolis, would gratuitously assist the Commissioners, who as taking responsibility upon them, in the direction of a most important branch of Police, ought undoubtedly to be remunerated by Government, especially as it is scarcely possible to conceive any mode in which the Public money could be applied, that would be productive of such benefit to the State. If that utility resulted from the design, which may reasonably be expected, it would of course extend to other great towns, as the private _Soup Establishments_ have done, and the condition of the poor would undergo a rapid change. The destitute and forlorn would then have some means of communicating their distress, while information and facts of the greatest importance, to the best interests of Society, would spring from this source. With respect to the general affairs of the poor, much good would arise from consolidating the funds of all the parishes in the Metropolis. The poor for instance, who are supported from the parochial funds of Bethnal Green, and other distressed parishes in the eastern parts of the Metropolis, are the labourers of the citizens and inhabitants of the 97 Parishes within the Walls, who, although opulent pay little or nothing to the Poor, since the city affords no cottages to lodge them.