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NUMBER 4771.

LONDON, WE.

INEtDAY, MARCH 25, 1818.

PRICE SEVEN-PENCE.

The maisagemeat, Zealous in 'Very thing that can eOntri-
WC to puhre accommodation, hes availed itself of the
short Ewer recess iu warming awl ventilatiat the Inte-
rior, in hinting the Douse by a new and splendid Cima-
delier, and in beautifying and decorative the Saloon. •
The Stoves, which have been constructed epos • new pria-
ciple, exclude the cold and raw air, and Introduce into
the body of the Noose • mild and refreshing temperature;
while the active mod powerful Ventilator draws off the
damps, and readers salubrious the auditory part of the
Maitre.
Tbe new brilliant Chandelier, lighted by Gas, is an improve-
meet upon every thing that has hitherto appeared : it
sheds a clear, soft, sad bramiag light over the Haase,
neither obairecting the slew, nor dinsiniskiog the interest
of the Stage.
The Saloon bas undergone a thorough and complete change,
and will be opeued, as award, for the accommodation of
the Half-price Company.
MR A TRE-R0 YA L, DRURY-LA IT R.
THIS Eve••Illg, WEDNESDAY, March 23.
their Majesties Servants will perftwas (fur the Gast
time) • new llontantic Drama, in three set., called
ROIL ROY, THE GREGARAH.
The Mary pertly origival, mid pertly frenaded oa the palmlike
Rommiee at that mime.
With new SconeeT, Machinery, Dresser!, kc.
The Overture swarmed mud selected, and the incidental
Mimic composed by Mr. T. Cooke.
Principal Chamfers by Mr. Powell, Mr. Illearrugh, Mr.
Rae, Mr. H. Johasion, Mr. Holland, Mr. Barnard. Mr.
lVallark, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Kent, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Smith,
Mr. Woolf. Mr. J. Swath, Mr. Knight, Mita Smiths's*, Mrs.
Glover, and Mrs. Bland.
The Prologue to be spoken by Mrs. Knight; the Epilogue
by Mr. Wallach and Mr. Knight.
After which. the Farce of
FORTUNE'S FROLIC.
Robin Roughbead, Mr. Delivery; Snacks, Air. Hughes;
Frank, Mr. Cooke; Rattle, Mr. Barnard. Newry, Miss
Iran; Margery, Mrs. Sparks; Dolly, Mrs. Deere.
'the Doers to be opened at Six o'Cluck—the Play to begin
at Seven.
Bose., 7s. • Second Price, 3s. Ild.—Pit, 3s. Sri.; Second
Price, U.—Cower Gallery, 21.; Second Price, • 15...-Upper
Gsllrry, ls.; Second Prier, 4.1.
Boxes and Places to he taken of Mr. Spring, Rotund',
Brydges street, from Ten till Four, and of who* may be
Dud • Private Box nightly.
A sew Farce, called The Sleeping Draught, will be pro.
dined in a few days.
Various Novelties are in active preparation.

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ON Tu E
EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN IN
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preached at St. Patrick's Chapel, Sullos•-shell, Suho, by
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NATURAL 11 (STORY, general and purti-
the C t DE BUEEON.
The HISTORY of MAN and QUADRUPEDS, inllnE-
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To THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL.

HOPE ASSURAtICE COMPANY,
LCDGATL-1111LL, LORDOW; AND WasTroacumo-Sfra

Mir Loan—Permit me in address yosir imalship in a.m.-
capacity of inie :thunder of the IA Empire, .is s
subject of sietnotal coon:oil, which, them:lh it has eacc e.l
consolerable interest in certain quoit tars, appears uut to /n-
-itwit stood or 811meg:rated by the pohlic at late,. its any de.
tree commensurate with its real Istiptrri mice. A iiill ma the
' Employment of Children in llauufutnnl,s has been les.:
lance iu the Hume of Commons, passed through the Coon
uti tt ee, had its bleak' tilled tip, and is In he read a 141.. l
time the first 1111milay in Apia. I itot.red the riehetesay.e,
look place uu it.. tint and second rename, and have joist it •
ceived a copy of the Bill as atueuiled by the Comut:ll••e.
This Bill is opposed, it net'lllll, by a Milin'''. of alit"
Wealthy COttllli-spinier'., good men of h.aitusse, act. rat oi
w bunt are Members of the House of Cmatouns, tool who ;In-
capable of reisiug a formidable oppos,imir (.1 4.. y m. asp.,
which they imagine will allect their mt.-rests. Its seamo
eta are those alto deem the practiee. .• loch at prest•t.t pre
veil in our fl1116111(11clOcien, to Ie is roily case. tujortues I .
the children. The subject, irowevta, Fermi to be tirlstri
by hails parties ton very confined enmods. Its eats inisa•
beatings on the general interests of the nation have hero
very imperfectly, or timidly at all considered ; and it. ,truing
claims on the attention of Gavernment and of the count.
in consequence, very feebly insisted upon. The tuantifite-
turrrs look at it simply as iota cautile men, miller nit alai nt
that the regolations proposed tarty in souse may or other di
miuish a fraction of their prufits. The fear of loss of petal •
Mary gait. to men (reined in the print•tples of trade and
manufactures, is vet, natural. Their elation to• society,
aid, in nanny iustauces, their very substst. nee &mode on
success in their several occupations. Their labour- and
anxieties too are very great, awl except in a few instances,
which in consequence are ale eye promiut ut, they are sery
.itordequately remunerated fur their toil and care. Under
these ciretimstauces, it in reasonable to conclude that every
object must he viewed by them through the not/1111 of 811(1 •
cantile calculation; and aro one ran jest ly Idiom them
or be surprised al, the jealous activity whirls they exhih
on ail occasions where their inte►ests, real or im tgivary, are
attacked. For these and other reasons, the cultural course of
trade, manufactures, and commerce, shoal.) lint ee
di•u,nb-
ed, except when it interferes with measures affecting the
well being of the whole community, in a hick case minor
considerations might of course at all times to give way.
The practices which prevail in our mum ufirtori. s form, it a
peculiar manner, one of these exceptious. In y interfere
essentially with the best interests of suciety, without bent fit
to any particular class, or to any individual ; and very little
explanation, I pecsnme, will demonstrate I • your Lordship
the truth of Ibis statement. Generally speaking, the occu-
pation which manufactures under the existing arrange-
ments afford, is more or less unhealthy to those employed
in them, who are called upon to sacrifice their strength and
substantial comforts for Ilse advantage of others, tool nut
infrequently for the benefit of their enemies. The numbs rs
thus employed now constitute an important part of the pu-
pulation—so great indeed, as necessarily to disseminate the
good or evil effects of the melte., *lnch obtain among
them, over every corner of the empire.
These pradices arc, lit, The employment of children he•
fore they pewees sufficient strength for their work; before
they eau be initiated in their necessary domestic sloths; and
before they can acquire any fixed moral habits or ittiond.dge
that may render them useful, or not iujorimis, members of
the community. And, gdly, The employment of adults,
both male nod female, its Situations storeroom:tide to health,
for an excessive and unreasonable number of hours per day.
The Bill before the House of Commons is intended to apply
to the former evil only, stud to remedy which it is eerily very
inadequate. It permits children to be employed at nine
years of age for twelve hours and a Isatf per day, allowing
them only an hour and • half during this period fur meal.
and for exercise in the open air. Experience proves that
men may be habituated by early practice to consider the
NNW inhume* sad barbarous customs, not only with inilif.
termite, but as ausueenteats from which they derive exqnisite
enjoyment. Even the best oatmeal dispositions may be
trained with ease to delight in csaniball,in. It would be
clearly 'unjust, therefore, to blame maaofacturers fur prac-
tices with which they have been familiar from childhood,
or to suppose that they have less humanity thaw say other
class of men. Those practices, however, to which they have
bees familiarised from early lute, are sseverthelese unjust in
the extreme to their fellow-creatures, aud peculiarly injuri-
ous to the best interests of the country. To detail all their
comiequiences would exceed the limits as letter; and it is
presumed that a sketch of the outline of them will he suffi-
cient at once to disclose to your Lordship the high import-
ance of the subject, and to establish its claim to the imme-
diate attention of Government.
To govern well and justly, is to form arrangements by
which the greatest benefits that circurnstancts admit shall
be given to the inhabitants of the cossuiry goserned ; and by
which, especially, the most helpless part of the populatiou
shall be protected from uuoccessary oppression. Allow me,
my Lord, to apply these principles to the subject of this
letter. From MIMI which it is unnecessary here to explaiu,
the value of mere manual labour has been no much reduced,
that the working man in this and other cuuntriea is now
placed under circumstances far more unfavourable to his
thesiop,pionressiht.haunthelbselasezr
woair viillnaianowyansfulthideernal
qi y
oo o.n have
en obige.da ay set
01 fr,e withinfu.e tint.heselfaysiteethree f ymearthaireosnf:lluiso; ef:siagantiyituuPi t:
exert their strength to the very uttermost, when those ser-
vices were uttered and urged upon me by einreaties most
distressing to decline, at wages which could uut affo•d the
applicant for himself and family the most bare and common
necessaries of life. With the small pittance they asked,
they could, in fact, only gradually static, amidst wretched-
ness of which the wealthy can turn 110 adequate concep-
tion. Under these circunistancts, the working man and
his family arc now truly become, rivets in this country,
pitiable objects. Yet it is from this class the wealthy &-
live all which they hold. The rich wallow in an excess art•
luxuries injurious to themselves, teddy by the labour of
men who are debarred from acquiring for their own use a
sufficiency even of the indirpeusable articles of life—much
less ■sty of those numberlires comforts whirls Its y ►o v
around them. And yet, if their capabilities were permitted
to be brought into action, they could multiple these in
such abuntdl•tice air would not only afford Mess:dreg a pai-
'trap:dims in diets), but would yield to the higher classes a
still larger proportion of wealth tban the latter can possibly
obtam under existingciresswistances. Such being the fret:,
my Lord, which at any time 1 can prove. to the satisfaction
of every intelligent reflecting mind, surely the working Ulan
and his family twee a fair and just claim for some aid aud
protection (runs the Legislature of their casuistry. Lt a ne..-
jority of casts, he is now, whenever :revered, compelled by
dire necessity to 'album. 14, Id, ur even 18 hours per day eta
employineute fa WU which often every idea of comfort must
Inc banished, which are frequently very milwalthy, and some-
times revolting 110 human nature; but, my Lord, his sous
and hit tinu_hstrn,aunt
~:b.iiivitoiti:dctiecit:moinneeleucaccisisl:i'za.lie4oll%i:a trudge ■ge, air now .
MUM all thus Ishour, wln•u they cats procure work even
..it
this wretched Jest rip ' to support a hare existeure.. o
effect inure stem thir many of them never hope, but I've 10
perpetual Gar, 61 1.1 cicksiess overtake them, that tli. y
Is.szilussccsoceiri
pacay of cuoindtspeplaleudpteursaccept even this, ill the
Von will, I am sure, my laird, readily grant that this state
of things cannot last ; that its cuntissuance it ill umithilate
t stay proper feeling has eat line governed and their naicty

DuxLitt.

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ASSUItANCES against LOSS or DANTAGE
by rine, effected upon every Descriptioo of Pm.
Feely within the Vaned Kingdom' upon Terms as beneficial
to the Assuied as thaw of nay other Office.
Lasses are uniformly piddles, this Cowpony with the al-
most Spirit of Liberality and Promptitude.
Notke is keret" gives, that Receipts fiw Ike Renewal of
Policies, which expire at Lady.doe. era wow read" for Its.
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should be renewed within Fifteen Disys thereafter, or they
bccusue rind.

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Assurances effected upon 14Vea and on Survivorship.—
Annuities granted and purchased.—Eudowntents fur Chil-
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The Profits arising out of this Breach of llusissees, after
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paid • and Cases have occulted (when the Doration of Life
heebiro cuusidtrahly prolonged), where the Payment has
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Charge, exacted.

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This day are publibbed, io Iwo Volumes Bro. price 11.1 a. in
boards,ESERVATIONS on
the
STATE of !RE-
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LAND, principally directed to its Agriculture and
Resat Population ; iu a &ries of Letters written era Tear
through that Country.
By J. C. CURWEN, Esq.
London : Printed fur Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Pater-
easier-row.

Til R ATIIB-ROV COV INT.G A RDEN.
THIS Evening, WEDNESDAY, March 25.
will be acted (Sib time) a New Musical Drama, called
ROM ,ROY NI A('G EGOR
GB'. AULD LANG SYNE.
(Founded on the moiler Novel of Rob Roy.)
The Overture and Music (with tke exception of as Air and
a Chorus by Mr. Bishop) Is composed and selected, chiefly
from old Scottish Airs, by Mr. Davy.
Sir Frederick Vernon, Mr. Eerrtms; Rashleigh 04•141-
-tone, Mr. Abbott ; Francis Osbaldiatone, Mr. Sinclair k
Owen, Mr. Blanchard; Captain Thornton Mr. Connor;
Rob Roy Macgregor Campbell, Mr. blae4atly ; Dougal,
Mr. Tokely; Hamish and Robert (Rob Roy's Sons),-111r.
Sutton and Master Parsloe; Major Galbraith, Mr. Taylor;
Itaillie Nicol Jarvie, Mr. Liston ; Johmo, Mr. Siam-its.
Diana Vernon, Miss Stephens; Millie, Mrs. Sterling; Jane
Macalpine, Miss Logan; Katty, Mrs Bishop; Helen Mar-
ren's, Mee. Egerton.
To which will be added (for the lad time), a new Pantomime,
called
HARLEQUIN GULLIVEtt ;
OR, THE FLYING ISLAND.
With new &Tura, Dresses, and Decorations.
The alight arsanged amid produced under the direction of
Mr. Farley.
Gulliver (afterwards Harlequin), Mr. Bologna; the
King of Gyula (afterwards Pantaloon), Mr. Norman ;
Qoadrantisaimus, Lord Chancellor of Inputs (afterwards
110.11). Mr. Grimaldi. The Princess kbuisibuidilla (after-
wards Columbine), Miss F. Dennett.
Doors'open at Six o'Clock—the Performance to begin at
Saves.

ROWS. 7s. ' • Second Price, 31. 3s. 84.; Second
Price, Ris —Lemer Gallery, Is.; Second Price, la.—Upper
Gallery, Is.; Beton,' nice. lid.
Places fur She Bones to be taken of Mr. Brautlun, at tke
Boa (H HarGatrret, (rum Teo till Four.
A Private Box way be kwl fur the Sealing, or Nightly, of
Mc Brandon, at the Box Office.

The new Musical Drama of Ruh Roy Mactregnr, or
Aald Lang Syne, will be siicate.' to-morrow and on Satnr-
dmr—and on Tuesday, Wednesday, mei Thursday, in the
swat ark.

fin Enda, (11th time), the new Tragedy of Farin. Artie
which will be produced, for the first lime, a new Comic
Romance (founded ou • Fairy Tale), interspersed with
Pau)nnumie incident, called The Marquis de Caralr•; ler,
Puss in Routs. With new Scenery, Machinery, Dreams, •nd
1). rt.ratione.

1,1 Monday, the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.

FRAUD PREVENTED.
TO counteract the twiny attempts that are dotty
made to impose on the unwary a spurious composition
"stead of the GENUINE BLACKING prepared by DAY
wid MARTIN, they have adopted a new label, is which their
hipatere mid Address,

97, HIGH HOLBORN,
Ipso eunspieiniusly placed in the centre of the Label, that
11w7 trnst an attention to this, and the 'adrenal,* of the
fip•, which is unlike all letter-press will arable purchasing
at owe to detect the imposition.

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M. ReAl JAPAN BLACKING, mole nod sold \Tholes'',
br DAY and MARTIN, 01, High Holborn, null retailed
by are principal Sisopkeepers, in Bottles at 6d, Is„ and
I. °;,.1

A CAUTION TO MOTHERS.
A T a critical Season like the nre,etit, when chil-
l& drea are teething, the utmost attention ought to he
raid to them, particularly as the Nleaskis and Olin Cough
l'esu ptrva'. tot. If obi: irritation of the gums comes with
any uther dosurikr, very few infants recover. Mnidwirs weight
newer to be without the AMERICAN SOOTHING SYRUP
in dlw Nursery, fur if • Child wakes in the night with pain*
Ili the Gams, this valuable Medicine applied will WNW'
li!'"(1, "pen the pores, heal the Ginn., and thereby prevent
liven, or Convulsions, fur, should it come in conopetit•
wills any Oilier disorders, it often destruys the Mother's
brightest bones. Parents who may he dubious of the virtues
"(the sin 'THING SI RUP may Wier to the eases that have
al9+earal to the Ni•n•pmscrs for the List ten years.
since Mra. Julinsuu has apprupriateJ one hour twice a
.reek, via from fi to 10 ticlurk cm Tuesday and Saturday
morniaga, to the, Poor who have Children &Meted in cut.
1:41 their hob, 6y bringing n utter from a la""ekeelier,
that the *lndira. IS a real übjett of sharity, has made it so
milversally knuwia iu almost every family where there are
r"ot ehtldredr, Mrs. .1. Impel so great a dimity will mut
as it comes nut of her private purse.
1\I" be had of the Proprietors, Johns..., and Williams,
ti Nnwman.st rect,thansit street, Landow; and by their
"Plsilistmessi,uf the principal Medicine Vaidci a in tuwu sail
. wintry, at Is. Pd. per 10,11 ie.
N.B. rare to a,k tut ?Om on and Itlllian,. SOOTII-
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