The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-01-02 00:00:00

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• I,iaat tt t this Ailylum. part of which has been
hmutea fah the- use of the Subscribers to the Feud
for the nouselkee Poor, was opened' for the temp-
hell of the wretched. The 'Committee had Met
shirty to the dey for the pagmet of alperintendiak
seep* memory alterations io the Workhouse fur the
wagiansaisidatiew of the Helletshmr• -
hitititte the Committee were employed in the new
epplioatioe was =de by Mrs. Pry,
=VIZ:: *my genet issereme of 'unfortottetes
• hint* her bat, to the Dietetics, to permit the ad-
mission of such females. as might be discharged '
t sum she. prism, 4ti which she dispenses her churl-
'Mt. The applicttion woo accompanied by on
. sheaseare that lhattinellentara, in granting such o
heentiosisma thoOldhsoh op lathe spirit hsf the Act
Porlimeaserhiefl idas NsegMetion of the
,Honse.
r he sethilleh hi he "AMP huteliediate eorwridenstion.
• 11 haeltioneutletimeissed* the Committee, that
the mama( foe admission. shall nodesgo
the otrietekt, ismenesliate .elietiheatioo. that vas Ake
pavaie, and that none shall he rem :iced who hate h.
distiuct legal Claim ipso my perish. The oblect
t Cheltstilea peofemis the mein from stateetems,
tar the fatal deviator ellothmeete to the held. thyme
who hove so tecorsisablecluieeta 'Mach* telief.t
the emietiesophierth I hat pariaboteetirveallt heist
h the most. that cats be motertaitsedt4lith
.rtiehisth an • sate,. apology to the affluent for
withholding the requiate aid, and rephoenting all
heights as uuisunces and lazy wretches, who, would
not apply for relief where law gave theta a right to
demote',
The Caeihnihee emoider that diepormitei flo itet,
and are not, Obliged-nor empowered to relieve rig who
are starilithh flit t the, are thousands iii this neth•
• tropolis groan's aid the rich
.from all quarters
of thehillithohletie hhi right to claim tiny thing
'. from auy Vitelae they cannot prove them-
selves of mieh. and that if those whose hufferings are,-
ot it were, eliaregarded by the statute, and flung out
of trig rule of social recognition, do not comment.
rata their want to ethers, and ask relief, they must
'either
rob "Or -die. These unfortunate persouo, in '
fact, in asking, confer a favour on Christians, by
'Rising them ad opportunity to exert their churity,'•
hied to dispel* of the use of superfluities., the jinni°.
derate use of which to festal to the rich, in the same
proportion that want of bread and covering is fatal
is the, poor.
-It hes not 'escaped the notice of the benevolent
'Men who thou go shoot &lug good,' that cases
'are continually occurring in a metropolis difihreht
from those which occur in the couutry, and fur
which • differed or rather au additional muds of
it necessary ; that in the country. even in large
lowa% people hare a knowledge of each oilier, acid
dish** never rises to that frightful height so often
ho be seen perishing sojourners in the streets of
London. •
Members are to be appointed from the Cogs.
.11811.•015 to moor the markets and pent-houses of the
metropolis nightly, in march of fit objects for the
notice of the Committee. They calculate that
hunger is taut ' amongst the ortponable wants."
acid that many a young man collies tip to London
full of expectations, and with little or no simnel.
and utile*. he can get immediate esuploY, he
as already half undone ; that boys bred up in
Loudon without nny means of livelihood, and, as
often happetis, of dissolute parents. are in a still
worse condition, and sisieents out of place are not
much better off.
To remedy this deplorable situation of a great
Jost df the population of Loudon fur a time, will be
the object of the Society, which is thus rearing its
Lead umongat the most sublime Institutions that
have disfulguished the national character of Britain.
dt is true that one-hundredth pan of the misery
which existo—toUthe misery which is not to be seen
so 'tie street., but which lingers through *home, or
siektiess, or deshair, in a garret, is tot known to
slime who are able end willing to relieve it. line
luetunately the helm...sleet and charitable have al-
most as mach difficulty to break through forms, sod
hume at the wabappy and harm their real wants, as
the wretched base to come at them.
Through the medium of the Committee the inter.
• course between the rich and poor, which has teems-
eh/ such dangerous checks from political manou.
wes. may be established. without producing any other
consequence then upon the one side.. and upon the
hither the delightful refiectimai which spring frees
the science of doing flood.
It is aeceasary soothe. that during the period when
abetter was afforded 4ast winter to the poor in Mr,
Nicks warehouse, in hisondoss-wall, one thousand
live hundred and twenty-two prisons were relieved;
and that the extreme metered was little more than,
opals an average, 9s. each individual. The Corn.
.mistee of last year ascertained, that there are at all
hives perilous in the reetropoles 'IN want of nightly
shelter. Several of she Gentlemen who composed
0,4 Committee, amongst whom were Messrs.
Gault!. Ware, Statisfirld, and Hyde. traversed the
arversl dietricts, that the accustomed haunts of
she mimesis!, were deserted by the former hero-.
bends. They visited also different watch-houses, cud
srotivrteed with Night constables., patroks. stud others,
th different parts of the town. who all concurred hi
tilpit • bait improvement Was. discernible
en the state of the streets during the night, since
the opening of the Refuge for the House cis, end
she Coatsaitter felt, liettiselves warranted juin.„..ri.
thrl the Asylum tins not only affiirded relief
to horny ilithastrootta and deserting •prrsosis, at a
,h,eriurt whelk their occapasions were suspended, and
thvir sufferings snore thaii usually severe, but that
it hail also iu no issetinsiderahle skiver lessened the
ahportuiiity fur, and the temptation to, the com-
mission of .critste.

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Poor Dammam°, late of the Bri►tol Theatre,
host a blued-iirrarl some testae .go at Chtltroluain,
+sad DOW lit* HI a itat.eiese state.

ACCIDINT.--.011 Su sirley evening last, as a chaise,
with tutu bows, belnaging to Mr. MiicifaisT, of
.itse Union Cruse lssss, was on iii return
irons Bradford, it was precipitated down that vvry
ptreat drchirity at Booth Town. its consequence. it
•• supposed. of thf driver being so mach afFrcted
ta, the severity of tbe %realism, as to lose pH emu-
mend of ebt.lss.rses.. One of the horses was titled,
she chaise' of ni complete-1y broken iu Niters, and
four persons. who were Ni thr inside. providentially
escaped without sustaining any very lief 1004 injury.