Report addressed to the Marquess Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland / by Elizabeth Fry and Joseph John Gurney, respecting their late visit to that country.

  • Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, 1780-1845.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Report addressed to the Marquess Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland / by Elizabeth Fry and Joseph John Gurney, respecting their late visit to that country. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lotment of small portions of ground to the poor at an easy rent, which they might cultivate on their own account. 5. The distress produced by high rents, uncer- tainty of tenure, and the barbarous practice of de- populating estates. 6. The evils arising from absenteeism. 7. The importance of encouraging the domestic linen manufacture. 8. The immense pressure of distress existing in the towns, and the necessity of some public provision to prevent starvation ; an object which might proba- bly be accomplished through the instrumentality of the Mendicity Institutions. 9. The proper direction of the charity of indivi- duals among the distressed inhabitants of the towns and cities, and the great advantage which would arise from the formation of “ District Societies.” 10. The relief which might perhaps ensue to Ire- land, under its present disordered circumstances, from emigration cheaply and beneficially conducted; and the method by which the expense of such a mea- sure might possibly be defrayed. 1 ]. The low state of morals existing among the poor, and the affecting prevalence of crime. 12. The peculiar nature of the offences most com- monly perpetrated in Ireland. Some of the causes of these offences to be traced in the poverty and de- gradation of the people—in the national tempera- ment, prone to violent emotion—in the immoderate consumption of ardent spirits—and in extreme and brutal ignorance. 13, The good moral consequences which must en-