The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1815-09-06 00:00:00

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REPORT" tooth run room or COMMONS ord%
THE STATE Or MENDICITY IN THISSIETNONILIs.
(Continued froth our Paper of yesterday.)

Philip Holdsworth's !examination contiatted,
Is there any• vieitation?-e—The cloarchwnrdens
conic once a month.
At fixed times ?—No ; when they choose; they
never tell me when they will come.
Have you ever infectious disorders in the house ?
--No; they have come in sometimes with a fever,
then as soon as we can we send them to Guy's and
Bartholomew's, all eases of fever; there are two
taking-in days, Wednesdays and Thuisdays.
Are the children vaccinated ?—Most of them.
At your expense, or that of the parish?--At
mine; I employ a Doctor.
Is that any expense to the pariah ?---Only ii
lying-in-caste.
Do the parish officers inquire into the treatment
of the painters?—Yea, they do; they inquire of
aloe paupers hew they are treated, rind they ea.
amine them very strictly iu regard to their ditet and
their treatment.
Do you ever alldw them to be out at night ?z--
No; we discharge them in that case, we do not
take them in without a fresh order.
When the children arrive at a certain age, are
they put apprentices out of your house?—Yes
they are put out by the purisho cud they give a
',terbium with thern.
At what age are they put out ?—After twelve.
Never before twelve ?—No.
Have they instruction in your house ?—Yes.
At whim expense?—Dine.
Have any been sent to cotton manufactories in
the earth ?—None from me; they have from houses
I have kept ; I have kept a larger house than nay
owii, at St:Leonui d's Shoretlitch and St. Saviour's.
Can ell those children read ;Hid write when tines go
out ?--Yes, a little; we let them go to the parish
school and some to the Sunday school.
Can they write ?---No, not much; they can read
the Bible imul Testament.
Do you put the children to read the Bible ct any
particular hour of the dew ?---The children go Coll-
staidly at eleven coil stay till twelve, and regain at
two in the afternoon and stay till four; with the
mistresses they Wire they just learn to read.
Now do you keep Sunday in your house ; does
any clergyman come on a Sunday ?---Yes, we have
got a chaplain.
Is 'service regularly performed in the house every
Sunday ?---Yea.
By wham is he paid ?--By .me.
Without any charge to the parish ?—No ; I
charge so much to the parishes, according to the
number they have in the house ; there was no
chaplain when I took the house ; I had seen chap-
lains at parish houses, and I thought it looked
awkward not to have one at my house ; I begged
them to let tae have one, and the gentlemen agreed
to pay the so much it year.
The parishes give you no allowance for the
school-mistress ?—No ; it is very trifliug, it is only
a shilling a week she charges.
She is one 'of the paupers ?—Yes.
Do you mean to say, nil the pauper children
most nut of your house, are really taught to read
when they go out ?-11.1oless they are very drill, they
may kern ; they are all put to this maitress, and
she is a very good scholar herr. elf,
They all hive the opportunity of learning to
rend ? —Yes ; and we endeavour to make theni go
by persuasion.
Do you chance to know, whether any of the
children taken into your.linume are the children of
bee;grirl about the streets P—Ols dear no! the pariah
officers would strictly look into that ; they belong
to the persons who come with them, who have sets
tlements in the parish, or Some ',ethane the orphans
of those who lore belonged to the parish.
The nee. Gurney, called in, and examined.
You are Rector of St. Clement Danes, and
Minister of the Free Chapel in ‘l'est-street, St.
Giles'a ? I air; ni the Free Chapel there is ne-
coininorlation for Geri poor. In the course of my
mmistry there, I have had a great deal of occasion
to visit persons in very great distress, mei I have seen
as great deal of suffering:. I have ascertained that
there are four different sorts of, beggars or persons
not having habitriiiiiiis, or rather Emir different ways
of bogging; sonic are by keters, which they send
by the put ; and sonic are what we call knocker
beggars, who go from house to house knocking at
every door.
By what name are the persons who write letters
known ?--They call them twopenny-pout beggars;
they generally send their letters by the post, or
some other bonds but their own ; those who knock
at the door get a knowledge of persons from others
residing. in the street, mill if they can get informer-
, tion of any (me residing in the street, they go
ti that house, and if they succeed, or even if they
do not get any thing, they say, I have been to
Mr. Gurney's, or some other persons, and I
want to make up a airmail money to •pay rent ;"
whereas perhaps they tray no retit. There are
three or four sorts of beggars, as different as the army
tool the navy ; some who are stationary the whole
flay, they ramie to their *tend at a certain hour, and
they stay so many hours, and Own are led perhava
to another stand. There is a min with a dog amid a
hat, kneeling in Picendilly : I was iu the habit of
gibing every day, except Saturday and Sunday, to
Kensington Gore ; I always saw him at a certaiu
hour ;'he was about knee-lino between nine and team,
and there I fouuttlinu when Irrturued ; these persona
get a deal of money, rind live very well, e.spe-
cially if they are pretty well maimed, or if they are
blind, or if they have children. There are others,
women and children, who are moveable itinerant
beggars, they move about with the people, not par-
ticularly by the street but with the people ; for in-
.stance, tit the time of the ptay they use always very
' near the tlwatres; and if they see H young gentleman
mid lady walking together, to deep conversation, they
will pester them, and rut, before them till they give
them a pens y or twopence to get rid of them.
Those people at other times of the day, if it I* a
Sunday for iiiatatice, will be found near chapels
where there are large congregatious; they know as
well where the large congregations are at possible ;
• not that they ever go withireside the doors, the,.