The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-03-27 00:00:00

ASSOCIATION FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF
ENDICITY IN DUBLIN. -
THE hatlefol practice of Street Begging,
which has prevailed in Ireland to Barret almost pro-
verbial, has been nearly eradicated in Dahlia. A valuate/my
Associative was formed in Jemmy, 1918, among tie re•
spectabk tubabitaula of that kletrupoho, whose object It to
remove all pretence for *reeking alms, by affording week to
ahle.bodied Semis, and subsistence to the aged and infirm,
and children. Since the commencement of the labours of that
Association, upwards of 7,500 eases of Mendicants have
brio iuvestsgated, of which about 2,900 have been deemed
proper objects of either temporary or pennaiseut relief; sad
about 4,200 strangers have been supplied with the means of
returning to 11w pursuits of industry in the places of their
nativity.
Of those capable of work, the females are employed In
spinning linen ..nd woollen yarn, and in making straw plait
soil other works ; the males in cleansing the foot passages,
and the obscure and retired lanes and alleys throughout the
city ; the infirm, and the aged and incapable, receive an
allowance partly in food and partly in money; mid • school
has been opeued for the children, who are also instructed is
route useful empluyinesit.
The ge of the expenses of the last year, including
those of outfit, arc. was at the rate of 1,0001. per month.—
This amount was raised wholly by voluntary contriblitions
from the friends of the measure. The expenses for the car-
rell! year will he comparatively smaller, as the profits of
the labour will defray some portion of the charge. Still,
however, the actual outgoings are large and immediate, the
income irregular and uncertain. The want of • fixed and
certain fund to meet the demands of the Institution is most
sensibly felt in the purchase of implements and materials
fur labour, arid consequently in the difficulty of furuishing
adequate or profitable employment—for employment is the
mainspring of the whole machine—to teach the pauper the
Identities of indnstry,sqg to afford him the means of self-
exertion and self-support, are the chief objects. To do this
Iwith the least esthete& to the community, by making the
labour of the mendicants conduce, in part at least, to their
subsistence, is • point ever kept in view; spinning linen
yarn has been proved by esperierice to be the most effec-
tual and economical anode of employing the Mendicants,
by much the greater part of whom are females; about six
hundred are thus employed already. If the funds of the
lustitntion could admit the purchase of a asilleient number
of spinning-wheels slid other materials, not only upwards
of a Itemised more, now either idle or unproductively eins-
plinjed, could be *sale to contribute in • similar mouser
to tfieir own present support and future independence, but 1
all the female chthiren could he insured a kind a astpkop
meet which would guard them against the temptations and
miseries of Jest dolma.
The demands for these purposes have been met by the
resident iabahitants of Dublin, with an alacrity and
lity equally indicates. . of their good feeling and good sense,
but the resources of charity 43 a city now deprived of a
large portion of its wealtbaud inasonce, are rusequalfelly to
meet a claim increased beyond all former extent or force, iu
consequence of this very deprivation; under these circum-
stances, the Association feels it an imperative, though painful
dirty, to call upon those whom Irish birth or Irish property
naturally constitutes the national guardians and protectors
of the Irish Poor, and who, though removed from actual
view of the evil, cannot but have • powerful interest in
alleviating the sufferings and amending the habits of the
lower orders of this country, alto have been deeply, though
not incurably, injured and abased by the toleration of idle

vagrancy.
To obtain contributions in aid of Ibis object the Mana-
gers address tin mselves to all their countrymen resident in
England, and particularly to those who possess property or
receive meme from offices in Dublin; and they do this
in full confidence that every body connected with !reload,
must be very noxious to uphold an Instituting, which has
proved that a population reduced to idleness and beggary,
by disiriss and want of work, can be relieved and reformed
—an livititut which, by its local influence and general
example, must contribute greatly to improve lie monl
condition of the run', by recalling them to a life of industry
and good order, from one of vagrancy, wretchedness, and
crime
Sithsrciptiont In this Institution will be received by all
the Bankers in Dublin, by Messrs. Puget and Co. of War.
wiekiJane, and Mesa's. Hopkinson, of Regent-street, Water.
loo•place, London; by Sir Benjamin Hubliouse, and Cu.
Bath ; and by Messrs. Turner and Cu. Cheltenham.

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