ABSTRACT
Charles Mingay Syder was a physician who wrote many essays on his profession; he also spent a year in debtor’s prison, so he knew poverty first hand. ‘In the summer and autumn of the past years,’ says the ungrammatical document which is called the Queen’s Speech, ‘the United Kingdom was again visited by the ravages of Cholera; but Almighty God, in his mercy, was pleased to arrest the progress of mortality, and to stay this fearful pestilence.’ The most dangerous liars are said to be those who verge upon the truth: and such is really the fact. It is true, that the people live in times of great plenty—nature has seldom been more prodigal in her supplies: comparative cheapness is the consequence: but that the ‘great body of the people’ are in the enjoyment of her liberality, is false as Satan.
