An address to the publick, on the expediency of a regular plan for the maintenance and government of the poor: in which its Utility with respect to Industry, Morals, and Publick Oeconomy is proved from Reason; and confirmed by the Experience of the House of Industry lately established in Dublin. With some general observations on the English system of poor laws; and, an Examination of the Chapter in Lord Kaims's Sketches of the History of Man relative to the Poor. Written at the particular Request of the Corporation instituted for the Relief of the Poor, and the Punishment of Vagabonds, &c. in the County of the City of Dublin. By Richard Woodward, LL. D. Dean of Clogher, and Chancellor of St. Patrick's, Dublin.

Date:

MDCCLXXV. [1775]