ON THE INJURIES OFTEN INFLICTED ON THE MEMBERS
OF BENEFIT SOCIETIES.

TO WHICH ARE ANDED

DIRECTIONS, RULES, &c. FOR THE USE OF THOSE WHO MAY
WISH TO ESTABLISH

Ensurance Societies for the Poor.

DEDICATED TO

THOMAS BURCH WESTERN, ESQ.

Ill fares the land, to bast'ning ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade,
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold Peasantry, their Country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.

GOLDSMITH.

COLCHESTER:

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1827.

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THOMAS BURCH WESTERN, ESQ.

Of Tattingstone Park,

Suffolk.

DEAR SIR,

THE circumstance, which chiefly induced me to solicit the honour of dedicating the following pages to you, was the attention, which I felt assured, that any subject, connected with the welfare of Agriculturists, to which your name and support was attached, would meet with, from your Tenantry, and others in the neighbourhood of Colchester, whose interests are mutually concerned.

It was not with a presumption of laying before you, or the public, any original or unknown plans of improving the condition of the peasantry, that I have ventured to publish my own observations, but because I have generally found, that any local Pamphlet, however trifling, creates a greater interest in a neighbourhood, in behalf of any public measure of improvement, than one published at a distance, though it may contain every necessary information upon the same subject.