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London, England, 1818-05-20 00:00:00

Wesel of ilotT ;to feirer'still it 'has been granted "rlore s
1,6• of predicatius by an art uf such munilleessre.
" Now let se earseetly reqmst you In insider fur • few
"-inverts. what, in all probability, sushi have been the silos-
' ion of lb. poor Children. whose cause I advocate, if they
'L el not hero releved by this Society. Of all the stll•eting
p.etaeleeohirli suffering humanity presents, nune tulle for
osin'passion More than • destitute child, in a corrupt and
I " "710.4 inetropnlia. He sees nothing, and hears nothing,
the: t la 'good, our ulsieh excites loss to good ; but much he
c•TI. ana hears which torshly drags his to vice tied misery.
Ile is lir slight sip ie ignorance—grovels in the Inert haunts
..1 i Sienese—associates with the vilest of bottom brines—
nothing bat solar ho wormiest and lawlessitess--and, at
tile end of a few yews, has reels essisfirmed habits of evil,
it heroines almost impost:We to guide him into the
plats of virtue -is' It is •• easy, says one of the ilispirel
writers., for the Ethiopian to change his skin, as for those to
do good, who have hem accustomed to du evil' e"
" I have presented to your consideration the distressing
state of the destitute and neglected children on the metro-
polis--permit me now to contrast with it, the couilitiou of
the eliildreu educated by the Associated Charities, which you
are, this day, solicited to patronise. They are instructed in
the religion of their parents • they are taught their duty to
asol their ne:ghbousr ; trey 'twelve •• much learning as
is likely to be 'mini to them; and acquire habits uf
sho-
di. Ore and repasts ills. Thus, they arc made erosible of the
value of virtue in this life, and of its rewards iu the nett:
they are mailed to gain a livelihood in comfort tied decency ;
sire fitted f.sr creditabk employments ; and, if Providence
&lambi p 6 age to piece truster advantages sithin their rsets,
ve pinioned to avail themselves of them. We may expect
form them—instead uf a bold and blasted race, reject.ii of
Chid, and abhorred and dreaded by malt, as they might
others Ise have been—s virtuous and an honest generati .....
roof wtsshle in themselves, 'seal to their employers, credit.
able in this life, and happy io the arid
U lost a smsfortone, then, would it be, that meth an Insti-
tutions storied fail for want of rapport! Sorely you will not
permit its fsilare. 8.1 f Area leave my little (-brio. to
plead their own ranee Their little Orator has humbly stood
before you poi hive heard his little Mu ealers voice, telling
yno the diaterse of himself and his coseipasions, suit im-
ploring your f ! You have seen his little harmless
hassle stretched not to you fur relief; yes are all their sileut
sad onpretending looks.
"‘ They leave it to the Ministers of God to discourve on
the p.eerpt of charity, sad oft the punistimmits which await
the haul-heated sitaisdhey oration not the invisible haul,
which, we all know, al this very moment, esti. in this very
room, wrote, in the basic, tin which the I)ivinsr rye is eter-
nally fixed, the name of every person who is, and
of icily
room oho is col, kind to the poor.—they mention not the
awful hoer, she, the merciless sod hard-hearted will rail use
the mountains to cover them, while the (sfiend uf the poor
child will hook up, in humble hope, to the pour child's father.
" Them solemn words never pass the lips of these pone Clads
dein ; all thee venture to sly, is, we sue pour ! we are very
poor! we ask nothing of you, the want of which you will
ever feel !all tie wish is, to be your servants ! to be your
workmen ! your labourers ! to he qaalified for theme servi-
ties !—Do sot reject nor humble supplication !
" I have done—To your own hosourshle and bind feelings
1 now comegn them, mud propitious to them be this—proba-
bly the most important hour uf their lives."

• That this picture is not exaggerattil, is too clear, from
t►e remelt of the late ingtories into the state ~t the Mitsui
poor in this metropolis. From these, it ~'ears, dial Lori.
don contains nut fewer thin 0,000 pto► children, under the
ate of fifteen years who hive no lawful occupation—who
Lyre no means whatever of subsistence, list thieving and
pilferint. and artiste°, thieves anti pilferers...4nd who Ire
in regal orainir.c, under old and hardened offenders, for
minim still more ainrciors. In the course of the Mat
year. many w• re senteime.l to trampurtstioa—oeveral
to death. Whose soul is nut appalled at this &dieting
and formidable representation! Surely every principle
of Miura its, every sootiest of religion. every feeling of self.
preservation. suggests to us the Arcemity of tusking the
greatest earritons to subdue this alarming evil, sold prevent
its future growth. The out, effectual SWUM of doing it,
is istablisbiug schools like the present.

King's Minis-

tern. It is thet77,l,i th..t the communication will refer to the
thrOng of the present Session.
They write from Tombola', that M. Dobernard, the de-
fender of 'savior', has distrihnted &MOO( public charities
the thousand crowns he had received for the defence of this
person. The new proreedingr about to be instituted against
some presumed accomplices i■ the sarassiustios of M.
Fosldes, w.ll,it is ihonght, Ike tin less iatererting than those
just terminated. Yeace Estonronel, one of the accubeit,
is a man evil about bf) yearn, who had hitherto enjoyed a
good reputation. Beinieres-Vrynte, Bastide's nephew, is a
young wen. lie was token an ill, it is mid, when confronted
with Rim, that it was impossible to carry on the examination.
Some f Arra and chasers have heels lately arrested at
Lyons, accused of snaking topper hurts of the Usurper.

We hare received German Paperito the 6th inn.
The following ate retracts :--
trirrte, nat. t.

The Lclmde fair has been by no means au favourable as
was expected, but at the same time. not so had a one as t►e
couipbrints made every where might Wail us to conelnde.
1 he buyers from the North, whir are prep.., ly the Pont of
a Ii irk fair, were not so numerous, and as the fair was
or es,tiicked with goods of all kinds, sonny of the sellers did
not bud their advantage iis it. It is indeed certain that the
qamitity of guoils mairisfsetnnal is much larger than t►e
quantity consumed. The English were numerous, and threw
away thrr Ewalt at Very low prima, and as the number of
Jewoh Fellers increases every year, it is not to lie wonder-
ed at that the Gmanin maisufartarer did not meet with
muc► demand. It t be affirmed that any article
was eagerly pundit after. In general there was not muc►
done on a large scale, lint floe am tof goads sold
in small quantities was vim conriderahle. The weather wall
very fine all the time of the fair, and att►acted many pur-
chasers from far and near. The iiiinilwra run ut ry people who
visited the fair was very great. Printed calicoes of elegant
patterns, met with a ready pale, sod flannels were not to be
had toward.' ILe raid of the fair. Listens Maintained the
prier ; fnrP were is request. In general all faphilinsble Sr.
ticks, which united 'nattily awl fineness, were much month*
alter. Colonial goods wire not in demand ; coffee, however,
was high, the pound being teem nine `roaches to nine grus.
chess and six pfenning.

The Rook fair was so !'sr good that the booksellers who
were prt semi pail ready ntimey ; but the axle of Rooks ms
scientific subjicts were ?anent' ly small; thuse which hail
the hest sale were such as related to the politics of the day,
almanacks, awl such as colic. rneil the secular festival of Ike
Reformation. Mary obi bookseller; Bummed con. nrrbut wet
the balance of their aeroutat.

PVIIIT7ItIILAND. WAY A.

la the representation made to the French Chambers re-
sp►cting the liquidation of private claims on France, the
payments to he made to Swiiserland are recognised to the
amount of Ave millions of francs, and in this is included
Massenet Loan from I be towns of flellar,Znrich, and St. Gall,
amountiug in 2,133,074 francs. The paymetits in inscriptions
at the actual course of racking, are 'Nowa that' other cmdi.
eon. II it nut 33,000,0110 as English papers have said, but
20.000.040 which the Cuintnissimier, Mr. Von nailer, at first

demanded, and the treasures taken from Brun Zurich, do.
tertaisily etintrihoted the grumbles t part of this sum which the
British Mediator was antleirized to reject, as he is stated to
have done as a claim founded uu a false interpretation of the
Treaties.

The Conneil of the Canton of Lucerne has Waned s very
severe edict against lotteries of every description .--(4 raft
Gazette.)

Yesterday Viscount CASTLEREAGH had an audi-
ence of the PRINCE REGEN T.

It bap been stated in letters from St. Helena) that
BONAPARTE has lately receited, by wane uses
known mums. 400,000 francs in gold, and a large
quantity of diamonds. Money sloes not seem in he
wanting either to bun or any of his ailliereists. LAS
CAsts, it is asserted, very recently drew hills for
3000/. by the way of Frankfort on is banker in
London, and they were duly honoured. It is even
said that a draft for 10,000/.. signed NAPOLEON,
was lately presented to and paid by • London house.
—( Ereming l'oper.)
To SATE IS TO GAIN.--Tliwite who delayed to
but Tickets nod Shares i•• the hest Lotter• had to
pa) 301. for a Ticket and 40.. for a Sites 3111: yet then there
were only 100 Capitals, and 114.000 ; how there are
107 Capitals, and only 11,000 Tickets, and the prom, at
present, is 19f. for • Ticket sod 27.. a Sixteenth. That they
will nut be lower is re►lain—that they will lie higher is
esefafi—.lll4t those who delay to buy will pay more is
ce►taia—teas those who du wit buy cannot get a Capital
Prize is tertatro—that the first IA Prisoi drawn on th► King's
Media/ay will be all Capitals is terlais—soul that she
Reader may get suite of the Three Twenty Thuussods, if he
boys iminidtatt ly, is uiso certain.
FRENCH EXPEDITION TO SIIIIEGAL.—We are
refill-sled to tame, that the authentic and detailed
account of this disastrous Expedition, whirls took place in
1616, it just published, illustrated with she interesting
Note* of M. [twilit (now in Africa) It eoulsisis the pas-
breviary of the shipwreck of the Medusa, the sofferjogo of
the crew, and the various oecarreisces on board the raft in
the Droll of Zama, at St. Louis, and at the Caw ref
Darrard. It has been justly observed by the Quarterly
Reviewers, t►at " This well authenticated little volume
iirraessis the details of a scene of horror that ran warmly
be conceived to have taken place among men in a stale of
civilised society. Never was there a recital more terrible;
it makes one shudder its every page, and tremble in even•
liar. The subierrane•oua *reuses of Ansi Radcliffe, and ill
the imaginary horrors ;lour melo-dramas and our tragedies,
shrink to oohing before—the real horrors of this dreadful
catastrophe"—Mr.C•ditatt, the publisher, receive' sob.
acruptiuus fur the relief of the survivors."
The Kaleidoscope has been received by the public
with so ninth pleasure, and so great is the eagerness
of families, In procure them, that it is thought the
inv,enious Dr. BREWSTRX would have smote an ion-
nieliae sum by the toy, if he had used more precau-
tion in bringing it lotward. We donut, however,
whether lie mould have maintained his claim to the
originality of the invention. Indeed, we are iwr-
goaded be could nut, though, from our knowledge
of his integrity of character, we believe lie thought
the iiirtidion urigsual. ‘Ve happen, however, to
have now before us a volume printed in 1710, which
describes the invention latently, and giver a plate,
by which any person might make the instrument.
The book is eirtitled. " New Improvements of Plant-
bopped Gardening, by H it ll AHD BRADLEY, F. H.S."
'l•he tinarumeot is described to he " a new invest.
tion for the more speedy designing of i„riertlen-plats,
whereby we may produce snore variety of figures in
an hour's time, than are to he found in all the
modes of gardening now extant."

'I'IIE BRITISH PRESS. 1
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79/9 LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1818.
--..........—.
Last night a Bill was introduced into the Houle
11 of Lords for amending the Regency Act, by grant-
ing to her MAJUITY the power of nominating some
iithlitiiiiial Members to her Council, whose duty it
would hr to reside permanently at Windsor, and
i . I.y providing for the meeting of • new Parliament
it.t'i ill easy of her MAJESTY'S demise, at • moment
when Parliament might chance not to be in exist-
rice. By the Regency Act it is provided, that, in
I are of her MAJESTY'S eternity, the Parliament, if
it
under prorogation, should immediately nssemble,
!i and if not iu existence, that the previous Perlis-
silent should be again revived. The object of the
4.
present Bill is to enable the Crown, in case of the
• urinal dissolution of Parliament, to mots a
new Parliament, and thereby obviate the necessity
of reviving the old one. Eve, Gael' suggested the
i.. 4 propriety of • general revisal of the Regency Act,
and referr,•d particularly to the necessity in the
present state of the country, of limiting the 'nor.
'nom. expenses attendant on the establishment at
!,' ' %Viiid•or. The Bill was read a first time. and will
i,
. •e discussed in principle on Thursday next.
I'.
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We have received Maio Papers of &fur-
- flay lust. On that day it was expected that the
i Ministers of the Crown would present to the Legis.
;• 1 Lime Chambers the Act for closing the present
Se.wion. The Ministees will have ample cruse for
Cosio,reulating thenwelves, the Deputies, and the
1 country upon the character and tendency of their
Legislative labours.
i t
The Five per Cents. are 68 1. 40 ce—Bank Ac-
!. tints* 1,535 f.
The following are extracts :-
1 1* non, 114 T ii.
i .
Y. sterday the Roman of the Murex? of Peer., having the
Li 4Gaud Chaueellwr at their bead, presented so the King the
. 7 viroj-rt of the Imiv of Finance,adoptad on the preceding day
by the Chamber.
A. i On his return his Majesty received a visit fr'inis the Duke
i of (Weals*.
Ili. Serra, DiThricas the Duke of IBoartion, now prince
of Coliilr, arrival yesterday at three o'clock, sod at font
1 waited ua the kin, and the Princes and Princesses of the
i Itiiyal Family.
iI The Chamber of Deputies • ill meet to-morrow in public
Weston, to receive a communication from the King's Minis-
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