The consequence of which has been a constant increase in the number and wretchedness of the poor, and in the amount of the poor-rates.

Yet here again the burthen does not fall in equal proportions on the aristocracy with the rest of the community.

Their residences, whether in town or country, are not mixed with the habitations of the poor.

They live apart from distress, and the expense of relieving it.

It is in manufacturing towns and labouring villages that those burthens press the heaviest; in many of which it is one class of poor supporting another.
Several of the most heavy and productive taxes are so contrived, as to give an exemption to this pillar, thus standing in its own defence.