The Sun.
London, England, 1801-01-29 00:00:00

LVD CIS rßzo US' POOR.

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Tx E Gentlemen who coinpose the Committee
at Lloyd's `Colle-hott'se, of S'Uhscribers for the
'Relief of, the Industrious Poor of the Metro,
polis, have published a Report, which will be
considered, both in a politicA and in a benevolent
point of view, as of the highest importance.--
Their application for farther subscriptionsh is
accompanied with such an account of their,pist
as,entities tliem to tilt.: gratitude of
ri,cir Countrymen, 'for the exertions they have
male in their service.

It appcm that the Committee have received
'by the two Subscriptions made since March last,
the sum of to, 10,1, 195. This arose from twenty. •
three Coorrileitions made by Commercial end
Corporate bodies, anti from the. Subscriptions of
about 5.4 a Jpipe#ll)le individeals; 01 this sum
they hate expended 91+21. es., 6.1. in the fol-
lowing proportions : relief given in money,
. pool. los. 3d. ; in .Potatoes /071. .8s• Sde.;
to Herrings 2141. 6s. tod. The
.money so given
has been applied ireaid of the Parochial Contri-
butiems to Soup Shops ;*and the benefits resulting
from the establishment of these, ,are stated at
length by the Committee. No less than 14.8,000
persons have been relieved by them,and the nom.
her of meals furnished amounts to no less than
.41780.60:4.. 'l2lle.Ceesmittee reply most satis.
tattorily to sops,: unfounded objections. that have
been made to them. It would exceed goer limits
were we to -allot to .this. Report as much space
as our inclination would lead es to .d. ; but we
cannot omit observing that the Committee hue,
with a very laudable. contempt of the cold and
unfeeling,:norality which denies relief to those
whom :Poverty. haS driven to .improvidenoe,
exteeded their bee.:volence to: alit', class, of the
Poor: The follOWing Extrad from titeir.,Report
is highly creditable, to their feelings, and to . their
good sense
•
If further incitements are wanting, let it
be recolle&ed that the Pressure has continued for
a lengthaf time, almost unexampled in our His-
tory. That 'during a period ofmore than fifteen
months since, every article of the first necessity
has been nearly double the price which-(vas paid
by the Poor for their food, when .they could
scarcely make the two ends meet, it may fairly
be inferred that in the progress of so severe a
struggle, much of their, fereaure, apparel, bed_
ding and eeerkiee tool:, are locked up in the
Pawnbrokers' shops, at one.third or perhaps to
them not a quarter.or one.fifth part of its value.
With an approaching inclement season, without •
the means of obtaining a sufficiency oflood,eand
wick no possible hope of-being able to redeem
the apparel and blankets which are to shelter
them from the cold, or the working tools by
which they arc to render their labour in any '
degree prodpetive, would knot be desirable that
while a Fund is raising to assist the dime rid
establishments in dispensing fpod, an addition
might be made for restoring to the Industrious,
these articles of furniture and implements of trade
which are necessary for their health and'support,l
which nothing but ebiolute want could
.have
compelled them to pawn. Little indeed is done
by our assistance in feeding, if the.-Applicaus. is
naked and unsheltered from the inclemeoey. of
the weather. Comparatively speaking, a very '
small stun will diffuse the most extensive relief
when appalled under cautious circumstancee to the
redemption of pawns, since a few shillings judi.
piously applied, fieluently reStore to a
famished and starving:family, the major part of,.
their ,habilimeote andcoMforts ; nor ought it to
be argued as a ground of objedion that such a
benevolent attempt will only furnish another op.
oortuoity to raise money at:the Pawnbrokers'
shops. A few possible anuses of., this nature
ought not toobstred.a meonre.ofgeneine Hume.
pity, sandioned and called for by the pressure of
the times, which have dopbtless compelled thou.. ,
'sands to resort to ohe paini l alternative of ap—
plying t0.11).,*. Shop of the rawebroker, who had
1.101;tr before Occasion to i'mdzie use of such an ex.
otidient,' i.ven' if renewed. distreii-sleauld
oceasioriallY compel helpless families to obtain
Money.egaio on the
.hame articles, to fill up the
chasm of a day,. when Mello Mtlo,llol and children
pay (as often hat eees in this Metropolis), be
without fOod, and Without any. other means of
obtaioirg it, the charity thus affeeded operates
in a iiita..fold degree to their relief; duce without
this resoarce they must probably have starved.-=—
Let ii be iicolleded that a virtuous
end' iodustrious family, nothing but an aiternu-
rtive of the "i,90 pressing, nature can force from
'them 'articles almost as necessary as food , and it
is these only to which the atieniion of the Coln.
sedate would' be direited its applying auy parr of
the Funds placed under their care to this purpose ;
nor is it proposed even to attempt it, unless under
circumstances whereihe system established shall-
thein, in . a great degree from -imposition,'
while the assistance afforded will-be confined to
the most worthy (Aileen. - •
4( In the administration therefore of the funds
which may be' placed under tin. Committee
.chosen by time general meeting of Subsctibers, it
is not proposes that it should be confirmed tD 'the
assistance of tin Sotip Establishments alone ; but
that a part should ileappropriated to the purchase,
of Rice, Potatoes, Herrings, and other cheap food ;
-and esti (if found pratlicable), to allot certain
sum for redeemiogibeitrel, Bid(44 and WOrt-
ing Tools, of distressed industrious families."

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PooLt, lAN., 17. z
Arrived—the A,ftie, Williams, from- Portsmoutl,
I' ha: W !Luker ; Amity, Church, and Brothers,. Whit-
tie, from London; Pula: or Yor,k, Cok.,-an, from Bristol ;
Breeze, Gofton, froth Stltiticrlaod ; Bee, Bishop, from
Oporto • and Harriet, Sabbio, from Nev.lntincilanil.
Sailed—the Marv, libuer; for, Liverpool ; Ann
Mar tlatchard,. ncic,tvour, Soper, and. I>wanage, 11.1,;;-
siter, .for Portsmbilth.

GRA V LSEND, .
Sailed—the Succos.,, ---, for Atnst;:sci.trn, and Augus-
tus Cxsar; Kifok, for jilinalca.