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FP" ;:t- • , • '. ••• •. • • • • at' • _ ~ 1 ;4 r -•''' 1 5 -‘ 4.0 r I'' AL.7 l ' 0 1 1" • A.. 111 Pf-.7v •I; ,/ -- .; ..at ~~ 1 . • t 4 _e r ,SI . R • -11 Y t r V‘Aak% ..)11 .lifi t i t tr - • • • _l l . * 04'.11igislijmi • , r d ./ 't" ... r ot-2;, / . ••".• • •• •• `'• f, 4.1 ". . • O 0 80 • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, PRICE S r VT. CALEDONIAN ASYLUM OFFICE. THE QUARTERLY MEETING of the GUARDIANS of this CORPORATION will be holden oa Tunasaar, the Sth day of December nest, at One eeCiadl precisely, pursuant to the Act of Incorporation. JOHN *ALT, Secretary. Caledonian Asylum Oiler, Sikh November, IStB. . . Subscriptions continue to be received at the Ranking HOUSCS of Mears. Couto and Os. Messrs. Patton, Cockereli,Trall and Co. Messrs. Down, Thornton, Free, and Down; Messrs. Marsh, Stbbald and Co. Messrs. timmmonds and Co. Messrs. Herries, Farquhar and Co. Messrs. Smith, Payne and Smith ; Messrs. Prescott, Grote and Co. Messrs. Moreland, Ransom and Co. by the National Banks of Scotland; and by Johp Galt, Esq. Secretary, Covent-garden. SARACEN'S HEAD INN, SNOW-HILL. 10P1 EDUCED FARES, by the Old BLENHEIM J-S) Light Pon Coach, to Oxford, Woodstock, and Witney ; through Braconstielti and Wickham, front the SARACEN% HEM) INN, Snow-hill, Loudon, every Morning at a quarter past Seven o'Clock. i s rajar FOR TAKING AWAY LEAD ASHES. . NAPY-OFFICI. PRIMCIPA OFFICERS and COMMlS ,sioNEßrehis MAJEarrs PrArr,de hereby:ins Notice, Ng s e WEDNESDAY, the 11th of December next, at One lie whey will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be Ma courser for taking LEAD ASHES out of his Ma- Ind at Deptford. o f the Tender way he seen et this *se. p i kr wdi k received after Oas o'Closh on the Day if Treaty, diner:ties' the Party,or an Agent for him attends. T o ler atsevitaniod by a ktter, adtiressed ts sh e ,i r d by a respfsilie Person, sagaging to becoste &vitt iks Porno tendering, is the Seas e A2OO, fsr the doe Per- I tie Contract. • , TO GRAZIERS, BUTCHERS, Ste. glut is hereby given, That Tenders will be fecz y m i o n MONDAY, the 9th December, from those that t o ester into a Contract for Three or Six Months, to wens employed in his Majesty's Dock •yard, Victualling, 04,sece Departments, io the number of Three Thousand, oryseulies with good Os or Heifer Beef, likewise Veal, ar ilMotton, of the best quality to express the price per the different joints. security is ro be given by both the due per'orntance of the Connect. a br, to be pot paid, and addressed to the Committee of , 10 ,4g0g Society, Union Brewery, Southsea, near Ports gy Order of the Committee, J. C. SABBEN, Secretary. $ Ths Tenders received on the 19th November were not • r- lost Poblisbed, ILAcittustires, 101, Strand, and may be bad of all Print and Booksellers in the United Kingdom, WHOLE - LENGTH PORTRAIT of het tai Highness the PRINCESS CHARIOT I'E of SA XE glotlitG, engraved by Meyer. from the Picture by A. E. his, It A being a Cumpaulon Print to the Portrait of his SY. albsbeess the Prince of Sate-Cobourg, by the same Artist, Wel a few months ago. Fourteen incites by 10--Prints 1, It. Pools AL es. cra ---- This 'day was published, In ime Volume, ilso. price 15$. boards, TREATISE on the DISEASES of ARTE- AIRS and VEIN 4 : con t a inin g the Pathology and freat- ' c i Aneurisms and Wounded Arteries. By JOiEPH HODGSON, ' Member of the Royal College of Surgeons hi London. 41. 6 , by the same, in one volume, Sto. price 21s, in boards, ;Inesastsca, accompanied with Explanations, intended to re some it the Dioemes of Arteries. Jet Printed for T. and G. Understood, 31, Fleet-street; • mach, Edinburgh ;J. Smith and Son, Glasgow; and J. r , Dubitil. fliday was publiihed, a new Edition. Prit:c 2s. WERVATLONS ON THE EFFECTS OF, J EARLY DISSIPATION, in which the most destructive short prevalent spectes of juvenile indiscretion LI investigated airciamed; with an humble hope that the Author's remarks, twill on long experience, and supported by unquestionable shakier, may give a check to that progressive degeneracy in lithium race, which appears to he making rapid strides to its witasivetion. Ilse whole interspersed with hieudly ,Medical klawitions to You'll of both Sexes ; with instructions bow to 46ms feeble and restore au itttpaired Constitution. By M. VE7.EI., M.D. • • "Qurelturr mottos, " puerisque beats '• 1 ' Crean& oxor ?" soa. Bpist. ItZttand sold by the Author, at his house, No. 10, Al ikdford-aquare • sold also : by Sherwood ant, Co. Pa tna/mm*l Green, Oxford-street ; Parsons, 166, Flect-street ; Wigtp beselltts. COLCHUT _.'ER BAR RACKS.—SECOND SALL TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE. TO SOLD BY AUCTION—By JOHN TAYLOR, Irk *e Authority of the Commissioners fur the Affairs of Itv _rub, without reserve, on Monday, the 9th day of Decent he, 1916, BOUT TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN- ThEN LOTS of BARRACK FURNI l'URb., FIX MI, end UTENSILS, comisting of Officers' Tables, chairs, Hire lows; Soldiers' Fables, Forms, and various Utensil.: in comply, Wooden, and Tilt Ware, with sundry ; amongst which will be foun d upwards of Forty Wheel s, le eery good condition. Aides 111E4/AY, the inth day of December, 1814, and wslellowing Dap. nearly the W1401.L of that 1)1VIiION of diARRAtI:K BUILOINOS, compti-iii; . ; the Arun:A y Sores, beds, Forges, Workshop., and Stabt.es, built of Timber, led'. Footings. and covered with Pantiles. • Isehlaterial. generally will be folititi in excellent condition; tie Gun Sheds, In pit-Ocular, deserve the attention of Pur etipecteily this..e requiring actonnot.drion for ttall.feed • ne, sr other farming 'peculation. fur which tkis &scrip -011111 building is pecsliarty calculnted: Whines, with Conditions of Sale, will be really for area- Awe Week prier to the Day ot :Sale, at the Auctioneer's, (*Mr; Kelham's Library, Chelmsford; Mr. Cana s, Weodbrldge; ot the Clerk of the Works, Chatham ; at the Auction Mart, London ; and at one of the ; _olglitus in the neighbouring Towns.—The Sale to cotumence u Mese') o'Clock punctually. TO PREVENT FRAUD. [VIE Public Are most earnestly requtirted, when Pitchashig DAY and MAR I IN's BLACKING, to ob ktlat Address is perfectly clear arid correct, particularly limber 97, as a sure means to prevent their being imposed lltr; swum and vile composition iustead of the original, the Nis r qualities ut which have ensured its universal use for 11 11ort. DAY •:111) MARTIN, 97, H'gb Holborn. iRti.COUPLR, MUNR()E, and DUNCAN, .Phy,iciatis to the Medical Hoard at Charlotte House, _ Road, hav e a wertaitted that upwards of WOO Patients world annually of prevailing disorders, that hundreds were in .... • g state, owing to tptavking themselves, and by con. '"•1111en ignorant of the profession, who deceive the public *lll'apecious promises and itumoral advertisements. Erupt ~ lathe head, face, and body, ulcerated throat, swellings in `` ktktnoits on the shin-bones, pains in the head and litifirs, l•taily taken toy ibt is matitm, swelled ancles, and nervous de ''!, are aseares Witch appear years after, and the consequences , n ' l littutter treatment. Drs. Cooper, Mantoe, And Duncan are l'tid daily from eight till eight 9 or by letter, containing a . ' . 114 the poor halt; advice on l'ueed4ys,'titursdays, and Son -7'l tip 1 2 o'clock, there is a side door and private ruocas fur A._ DIXON'S Alsks . lllll.lollS PILLS. riEsE Pills long since obtained it just celebrity i g .,, • "Al vrawe practice of the Proprietor, Mr. DIXON, S L i a L t'Cf "! r ) ; PM% front their great succe<4 in mny bstinate -7, , be n ders, on numerous Patieuto of dimi a licoo o a, rarli. ri.„.ti . Doke itf IiEDFOItD, the Dowager I .ady SAY ~4 , LE, the Vi s c ountess BULKELZ.Y, &c. &c. he was per -74 to offer them to the Public, under sanction of their names. t !bry , are icr,/nd to b e an incomparable remedy for iodises kzloal renorinE the tone of the stomach. They remove ha oland t . i!nana costiveness, sick hed-acits, and helm born. s., t " ?Pslog f ro m the acrimony of the redundant bile, intent ,,, !)Itt or drinking to cx-ess,,and Will be found a most „tale.' Medicine to be resin fed to upon every indisposition . , dc. 724 by a thserdered ctati. (.1 the Stomach mad Bowels. i t 71 ,4 Messrs. Duvet and boos, Nu. 4, Chrapside, London; ~!' 'i. es. a,.1 74%4 N and also by Mr. Oar.iner,Georgc ella. eburgh; Me ssrs , e wbory and Sons, Dame-street, • Y am d the Mixiitittelic.tidets hi every City sudallivil In LA Kills,,,eli. ! n al ••ts'.. l C.I. J :r Mt{l t ;43 v. MEETING AT THE AGINSIOAVIOUSB. Yesterday a Meeting was convened at the Mansionl House, for the purpose of promoting subscriptions is aid of the charitable instivatioos for Cie relief the' distressed Manufacturers of Spitalfields,.and the other north-east districts of L•indon. By hal( past one o'clock the Egyptian-hall, which was allowed by the LORD MAYOR for the accommodation of the Meeting, was nearly filled. Seats were reserved for the Ladies, _ _ a considerable number of whom attended, particularly of the Society of Frieecls. At two o'clock the LORD MAYOR entered the Hall. took the Chair, and opened the business of the Meet ing. He began by expressing his happiness at se ing so numerous and so resrctable a Meeting. especiall ) when he considered the benevolent and praise worthy object which called them together. On no occasican was the claim more urgent on the compassion and. liberality of the rich than that which would be pre sented on the part of the districts whose sufferings the Subscriptions this day to be recommended were intended to relieve,,which comprehended not only the parish of Spitalfields, but the north-east quarter of the Metropolis. _The scene of misery and distress was extensive, and entirely without the means of relief within itself.. The utmost liberality that could be expected could only produce a slight alleviation ; tor, in the general state of poverty and misery in which all classes were placed, a complete remedy could not be found. Oar poor laws had for their (eject to procure the means of subsistence to those woo were unable by their own exertions to earn them. and bad in practice the effect of preventing any one from dying tot want of mod ; but until lately their Cult operation was happily never required, and a laudable feeling of pride made many prefer 'privation and suffering to an application for parish assistance. He was of opinion that this feeling Glenda still be en ccissraged, and that the best way of assisting the poor would be to maintain their indepelideut slit* I ..we ther with their industrious habits ; and by providing. for them the means of labour, to teach them to be lieve that they assisted themselves. Many thousands, he was persuaded, were willing to l ib-)ur to preserve themselves from pauperism, if they could be employed at any rate of remuneration which would admit of their earning the means of subsistence, and that they would turn their hands to any thing rather than be come objects of gratuitous charity. He had no doubt that the Committee of the Association who called the present Meeting for the relief of their distressed neighbours, would be glad to listen to any hints by which their bounty might be expended, so as to en courage labour While at supprated ind'geace. His Lordship professed that he was akays averse to any measure that tended to encoutar idleliest or promote pauperism, and his reflections had been much directed to the means of alleviating the pr. ssure of the times without doing rioter. His situation exposed him to witness many instances of distress. and daily pressed on his mind plans for removing or alleviating it. He Was sometimes in the habit of sending 30 or 4.0 a day from London to their parishes; and it was ex tremely distressing to him .to think, mat lie must, either burden the criunty with the expenses of their transpire, or send them home with an order which imposed on the parishes through which they passed' the charges of their maintenance. With respect to the employment of the poor in some sort of labour by which, while they were receiving national assis tance, they might. be increasing the national resources, he had thought of many plans, one or two of which he might mention to the 'Meeting. •He had made a. representation to the Ministers on on of those plans,. to which little -attention had been paid. He had suggested that 50,000 acres of waste land might be' brought into cultivation, by which '20,000 men might be employed. They might be see at work with • small expense, and in a short time would cease to cost the country a farthing, while they were increasing its produce. He had turned his attention to the best means of relieving those distressed manufacturers whom this day's charity was intended to assist ; and he was led to suggest, that a subscription of one pound from every, individual able to contribute, for the purchase of the goods manufactured in Spital fields, would be the most beneficial charity. This collection would form a fund for the purchase of the articles that now found no market ; and every sub scriber would receive the value of his subscription at , 'the plate of his residence, with no other. condition titan that he took Spitalfields goods, thus employing the manufacturer without injuring the shopkeeper or , the retail merchant. His. Lordship next alluded to a -species of employment by which the means, of sub: sistence might be provided for al conststerable number of the destitute poor, and as .the cold season was aJ .vaucing. a considerable saving of fuel tr4bt be effected. He. had - seen, when he vas in Wales, a species of mixture which produced a good fire, made of clay and coals, two parts of the former to one of the latter. The mamstacture of this article might .employ a good number of hands. Mud ittr the pur pose might be easily obtained from the Towner, :and 'the viiroaehing whiter would create a midi market, . . while the poor themselves would be supplied with fuel (which he was told in a letter he had received today was as good as coke) at a chva?er rate than formerly. The Lord Moor said he had throyni ndt these hints, a$ he beltercd in doing so he might be 'baking usifill . atiggestions, and was sure at least that la offering the fruit of his reflections directed to such objects, he was complying with the spirit of the Spitalfields Associations, and was acting in unison with the feeling of the Meeting. Labour must be found, or general distress mu .t ensue.— No poor rate short of i general irnd oppressive bur den on the country could at present alleviate to any extent the miseries of the labouring and manufactu ring classes. Before he sat down he could not help adverting to one thin, on which he thought these was a general and a groundless complaint. We had heard much clamour on the high price of the at tides of subsistonee, and the exorbitant profit exacted by butcher's and bakers; but it there realty was any cause for this clamour, it might easily be checked or removed. Esicourageatent, might be given to those who sold at reasonable rates, and those who did other wi,e should be deserted. For that purpose he would recommend to all who now heard him to go to the markets themselves, mad not intrust tie purchases for their families to their servants. .They would thus see with their on n eyes who was the honest and re.ison able butcher or baker ; and by encouraging such, would force all to imitate their example, and sell as cheaply as they could do c msisttn:tly with a proper remuneration for their own lah , ur, anti a reasonable interest for their c.tpital in trade. 'lbis Wai the prac tice he himself follotted, and he found it extremely useful in being supplied clue tply and honourably.— He had ritthing more to ..etain the meetiag with at present, and would nom propose that they should pr.iceed to the business of its assembling, with a re commendation that, as it was coiled for the pur poses of charity, nothing but charity should be heard from the lips of tlinse who meant to address it.— i Loud aNdaute.) Heise M. J.- J LisTalt, Secretary to the Associa tion, read the following Address : " The Committee of the Association for the Relief of the Industrious Poor of Spitalfirlds and it; neigh• bourftcoti, address themselves to the public on behalf of the district to which their labours have been de elect, in full confidence that its condition needs only to be known to receive the sympathy and assistance isf the benevolent. " That part of die metropolis which is commonly included under tl-e general term of Spitalfields, com prises, besides the parish of that name, these of Beth. 141-green. Shoreditch, and part of Whitechapel; the Hamlets of Mile-end New Town, and Mile-end Old Town, and some other places in the vicinity. The number Of opulent individuals, in this district, is es ceedin small, and its etiormous pftpulation is chiefly . ssi the inatittfacturing and Lamming classes who are employed by persons residing for the most part in the city. In favourable times they are in ge mral able, by their industry, to earn a comfortable übbistence, thong') eve.. then, from sickness and ca. s.ialties, there ate always to be found many instances • A indivtdual buffeting ; hut when a depressi .n in trade materially diminishes the demand for labour, multitudes are at once deprived of employment, and suffer all the miseries of Want. The applications to the parishes for suppo:t soon become mote than they CAA relieve. A large proportion of those who are called on for the pant rate are themselves at these t:mes 'in need of assistance, and under such circumstances 'to advance the assessment would• increase the diffi culty of collecting sit, and often render the payment' altogether impossible. Thus the utmost pittance that can be dealt out to the indigent is insufficient to sup port eiisteece, and the distress becomes extreme. •• This was the state of Spitalfielt and its neigh bourhood when the Association was first instituted, in the year 1812, and from the exertions made at that time the Committee have the happiness to\know that many were rescued from perishing. Their operations were suspended as soon as the pressing necessity for them ceased; but they have now been imperatively called upon to resume them by an extent and severity of distress that has net been equalled at any forma period within their knowledge. " Of the inhabitants of this district a large propor. 'ion are dependent on the silk Manufacture, and form, in some degree, a separate class—possessing a character of their own that peculiarly entitles them to c intoiiseration. In offensiveand quiet in hisdemea-1 nour, and accustomed to decent and domestic habits, the Weaver is in general industrious in prosperous' times, and patient in adversity—he is seldom found addicted to licentiousness and dissipation, and his . earnings, when in full work, enable him to live with respectability ; but his sedentary employment induces a want of bodily vigour that unfits him for bard la bour; so that when his usual occupation fails, his con. dition is particularly helpless. " Of this class nearly two thirds are at this time unemployed. and without the means of support ; as well as a multitude of porters, labourers, and mecha nics in different wades. They cannot disperse them selves in the country, which is already overburthened with poor—and where at former times of difficulty, temporary work might have been obtained, numbers 'ot old hands are.now dismissed. Even the resource ot the Army and Naty no longer exists for the desti -Imm ; and many are refused admission at the teak -1 1 houses, which are too crowded to receive them. " To lighten in some degree this mass of cala mity, the Committee provided a depot ; where they have sold, since the middle of September, at a very 'low price, 92 ton 18 cwt. of salt •cod, 280 bands of herrings, and 16 ton 8 cwt. of rice ; by which a loss has been incurred of more than £6OO a and in order the better to Assist the most afflicted cases, at more than one hundred Members compose the Onnatittee, they have divide i n.emselves into 38 Soh-Commit tees,. *each eft which undertakes the visiting ot a Dis trict. Llurinig the last eleven weeks they have. paid mots thin WO visits, and distauteil £856, mostly . . in mime of from one . t . tl three Iphiiii%46 l. 4'::onv, WM. families, . Which contain also* 14;409 indliklu ‘lll-i. and while engaged in altisiereice,, their ,have riot* ed an extremity 01 starring, ,of *hicb thifse -whO sic not themselves accustomed to taplore.tligilintlei of poverty,. Can form but .an . inadequate idea . . find numbers who had been accustomed to lap . TIA their faidilies respectably, reduced from long want 'of employment to sell or pawn their forniturei which had been purchased with the savings of inemer yeirsi to obtain food. Their beddint:, their c/7thes, and the very looms andtools on whip the y were aectis tomed to depend for subsistence ate; in many in; stances, got,eand little is left them but Ofe bare walls of the;r rooms—Pauperism is spreading to ati extent truly alarming. Many decent families 114,4 had all they were possessed of suited, to psy Arreani i:f refit—others are deeply in debt lor the Com m on neceasariti,of life—some have a-Lusted their homes in despair, unable to endure the bight of their starving families; and many pine under lingering . diseasesi imiught On 7rom the want of fond and cl Ailing., " The partk' t ilars of every ease Visited are pre: served, and Open to the inspection of any person dee sitosts to peruse them.• Ti,e following may serve 01 A specimen : 0. V. Swan.streer, Brick-lane.—Thi: pont 'man has heen ont of wort neArly twelve rcont:o. His wile • has Lately heen cottoned with tier kwentieth child. They now in the greatest wel!it. Their eldest son, a y. , Ung min 23 years of age; caught a cold write time ago (throtwll the badness cif his shoes when searching about. for employment); which hat broity;ht on a decline, and he lies on his death bed, in his tathees apartment. T:lis young man hat a wife and two children. " IL W. a weaver, Bryan-street, has a wife and family of seven children, whom he has supported with comfort until within a few months; but from die want of employment, he has been obliged from time to time to pledge the little stock of furniture and clothing they possessed to misty the cravings of nature—until, from extreme distress and sickness, thy have been induced to ask lei- an asylum in the woikhouse—but which for want of room they have not been able to obtain. " Multitudes of cases like these are to be lief with in all parts of the district. To relieire such widely extended misery, the finances of the Coniniits tee, though liberally assisted by the Generil Aims elation, have been altogether inadequate—and with their utmost endeavours to contract their expenditure, it has considerably exceeded their reteipts. They have. made application to Government for help, and obtained a grant of 801) pair of shoes, 1000 blankets, and SOO palliasses ; but with an expression of regret, that there was no money *hien could be made available for their use ti and they now feel it their duty to appeal earnestly to the humanity of the public. The Spital-fiAds Soup Society has lately recommenced its operations, and *um sells 3e(;0 quarts of soup daily ; but it stands in need of large supplies to enable it to continue in action. The Spis tal•fi:,-Ids Benevolent Society also, which has long been a blessing to the poor, is assiduously employed in conjunction with this Association—and as the three Institiitions have but one objeci--to give the most effectual assistance to this deeply suffering district, it is proposed that such funds as may now be raised, be appropriated to their joint use. " The Committee ate sensible, that employment is the only permanent and effectual remedy for the evils they deplore—and while they are willing to Julie that this will teturn in the Spring, they will be thankful for any suggestions that may tend to open new channels for labour. But in the mean time the liberal aid of charity, and the indefatigable exertions Of those who undertake to dispense it, are urgently required, to alleviate the horrors of the approaching winter—to support deserving poiertyi that trembles on the brink of ruin—in Save them that are ready to perish. Those in happier citcomstances that and who are there but must feel for the overwhelm ing afflictions of their indigent neighbours, may be assured, that what is granted by their benevolence will be applied with strict economy and caution." Mr. T. &terms then rose, and spoke as follows: 84 My Lord—As one of the persons who were in strumental in convening this Meeting, it has been in timated to me, that it is my duty to explain our ob jects—this, and this alone, I can truly say, has urged me to place myself in a situation more prominent and more considerable than any other circumstai:ce would warrant. It has been my lot to see something of the distress OA rages in our unhappy district; and who ever has siren, as I have seen, the utmost ravages of hunger, cold, and disease, would excuse the trans gression of propriety I feel I commit io coming for ward so early, would do, as I do, would endeavour to enkindle in the breasts of others those strong emos dons of compassion which the sight of such distress would raise in his own mind, and would feel mast deeply interested that sonwhing this day may be done, may be nobly done, for die relief of my poor neighbours, sunk as they are to the lowest depths' of misery. But first allow me to state the causes in which it -originate:, because they are generally un known, because they are very curious and peculiar, and because a knowledge of these operate as an apo: logy for this public application, as it will shew that this district has claims not only on your compassion, but something like' claims even on your justice, not only those claims which, distress always has .on the . benevolence of the affluent,. but those intima te s and almost legalized claims *bid) the labourer possesses 'on his own employer, the rnechanieon his own mas ter, the pauper on his own parish. I mike bold to think that I can convince you that' the persons for whom we plead are your own labourers, your own mechanics, and your.own poor. In the Act-by which the Loot Laws were established in'thiscountrhAhere is a clause enabling Magistiates, •where any parish ii too poor to support its oivo inhabitants, 'to conjoin 'with it other parishes word nompetent. This is right, and, if it stopped hire, this Meeting would be super.