ABSTRACT
The public have a right to demand that rich Lancashire shall make that contribution which Mr Humphry suggests only, as the Scotch would say, to pretermit it, and to pass to another mode of relief. The distress of Lancashire accuses the wealth of Lancashire of laches. In default of this exertion, benevolence will not hold back, for the people must not be suffered to starve while the question is in dispute who are most especially bound to succour them, but benevolence would be much cheered and encouraged by seeing its exertions aided heartily and vigorously in the quarter where lies the strongest claim.
