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FOR THE

GENERAL IMPROVEMENT

IMPROVEMENT

OF THE

STATE OF THE POOR

OF

IRELAND.

DEDICATED BY PERMISSION

To the Right Hon. Robert Peel.

It is the province of all Governments, by wise regulations
of internal Police, to call forth the greatest possible propor
tion of Industry, as the best and surest means of producing
National Happiness and Prosperity.

COLQUHOUN, on Indigence.

BY WILLIAM PARKER, ESQ.

CORK:

PRINTED BY EDMOND BARBER, BROWN-STREET;

For the purpose of contributing by the profits of the Sale,
towards the establishment of a SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY

for the Parishes of Passage and Monkstown.

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