Excerpt from Illustrations of Political Economy, Vol. 4 The fair and fertile county of Kent has long suffered peculiarly from the poverty of its labour ing population. To the traveller who merely passes through it, it looks like a fruitful garden, capable of affording support to as many ih habitants as can gather round its neat towns, or settle on the borders of its orchards, hop-grounds, and corn-fields yet it is certain that nowhere, not in the alleys of Manchester or the cellars of London, - is more abject, hopeless poverty to be found than in some of the country parishes of Kent. One class murmurs about tithes, and rages about poor-rates, while another sets law at defiance, and fills the country with news of mur derons poaching expeditions, and of midnight fires - guilty adventures, of which the first brings in only a precarious and dearly' bought advantage, and the other is the most effectual method that could be devised for increasing the very evils under which the people are groaning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.