Workhouse

,—the abode of wretchedness and despair, filthily fitted up for the reception of decrepid old men and women, orphans, and widows, of those who have been killed in battle, fighting for despotism and tyranny. The poor are first derived of all means of subsistence in the commercial way, by the destruction of trade and then thrown into this filthy stew, to be eaten up by verin, the offspring of nastiness and a putrid atmosphere.