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London, England, 1853-03-30 00:00:00

Tilt WELLINGTON and UNITED
SERVICES BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.

Foxided October 21, 1852.
At a PUBLIC MEETING. held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great
.Queen-street, Lin coln'c-inn-fleld s, as a NATIONAL TESTIMONIAL
to the late DUKE of WELLINGTON, for the RELIEF of VETE-
RAN SOLDIERS and SAILORS of her Wiesty's ard the Honour-
able East India Compuyi Service, and their "WIDOWS and
ORPHAN S.

COMMITTEE. ' .
HONORARY CHAIRMAN.
The Right Honourable Lord ER.;KINE, Slaugham Park.
Lieutenant-General the Most Noble the Marquis of Tweeddate. K.T.,
Lord Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire, and late Governor and Com-
mander. in-Chief, Madras, Yester House.
General the Most Noble the Marquis of Londonderry, K.G., G.C.8.,
Lord Lieutenant of Durham, Holdernesse House.
hear-Admiral the Right Honourable the Earl of Cadogan, K.M.T.,
Chesham-place.
Captain the Right Honourable Lord- Alfred Spencer Churchill, Oa-
- fordahire Yeomanry Cavalry, and formerly of her Majesty'S 83d
Regiment, Blenheim Park, Woodstock. ,
General the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Lorton, Lott Lieute-
nant of Roscommon, Rockiegham.
General the Right Honeurabl, Lord Viscount Combermere, G.C.8.,
Constable of the Tow. r of London, and Lord Lieutenant of the
Tower Hamlets, Combermere Abbey.
Colonel the Viscount Le Center, Aide-de-Camp to her Majesty, and
High Sheriff of Jersey, St. fishers.
The Right Reverend A. Olivant, D.D.; Lord Bishop of Llandaff,
Hardwick House.
Captain the Right Honourable Lord Dunsany, R.N., Sherburne
Lodge:
Tke Honourable Edward M. Mainwaring Ellekr bnslow, late Lieu-
tenant-General, Scots Fusilier Guards, Woodbridge House, Guild-
ford.
Sir Edmund Bacon. Bart., Deputy-Lieutenant of Norfolk, Premier
Baronet of England, Raveninghsm rill.
'Colonel Sir nilliamAltiander Maxwell, Bart , Deputy-Lieutenant
of Lanarkibire, Calclerwood
• Major Sir Trev,r Wheeler, Bart„ Cross House, Torrington.
'Sir liggh..Abercrondu. Anstruther, Bart., Deputy-Lieuteii ant of Fife-
rell and of -Caitlineas-shire, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel Grena .
- : dier Guards, Balcaskie.::
• : - Lieutenant Sir Henry S. Wilmot, Bart., R.N., High Sheriff of Der •
byshire, Chaddesderi. .
• Sir Richard Pa Jagrelit: Bart., Deputy-Lieutenant of Derbyshire
F,.
and •of ' ,'SaTreark, and Nethereoto House.
%lieu* it Henry Jervis Meredyth White Jervis, Bart., R.N.,
Don nyearney. ;0
k., Sir William Fowle iii leton, Bart., Shrabland Halls.
Ir'''_. Sir John Shaw, Bart. usse,-gardens, Hyde-park.
f.- Sir A exander Charlet Maitland Gibson Maitland, Bart., late 75th
Highlanders, Deputy-Lieutenant of MidletlFan.
General Sir Thomas. Macdougall Brisbane, Bart., G.C.8., LL.D.,
Makerston.
rear-Admiral Sir Au;nstus W. J. Clifford, Bart., C. 8., Gentleman
and Deputy Great Camberlain, West-

t , Deputy. Lieutenant of Kent, and of the
tor Gate.

:ector of the Honourable East India Com-

:tor of the lionoutable East India Com-

ig, G.C.1.1., Brunswick-square, Brighton.
ustea, K.C.8., Portsdown Lodge, Ports-

Grosvenor-street West.
Ghetham Strode, K.c.....,Petauty-Liente-
zoutbill. , -
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)bn Grey, K.C., late Commander-iii, luef
udia Company's Forces at Bombay, Mor-

,rge Charles D'Aguilar, K.C.8., formerly
Jwlck-square, Brighton.
Lieutenant-General Richard Seeker trough, Roy al Artillery, Onslow-
.
square.
Lieutenant-General Richard G. Hare Clarges, Bitchfield, Grantham.
Lieutenant-General James Welsh, Madras Army, 11, Queen's-parade,
Bath.
blajor-General A. Macdonald, C. 8., Royal Artillery, Onslow-square.
Rear-Admiral Henry Prescott, C. 8., Southampton.
Post Captain bir Eaton Stant, a- d Travers, R.N., K.H., Deputy-
Lieutenant of Norfolk, Ditchlngham Lod, e.
lifajor Sir Wm. Lloyd, H.E.I C.S., Deputy-Lieutenant and Major
0-MMlandant of i he Denbighshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Brynestyn.
Rear-Admiral Sir John Ross, C. 8., F.R.S.E , North West Castle,
Stranraer.
Rear-Admiral Gordon T. F. icon, 27, Westbourne-terraca.

The Tery-Reverend a. 11. Cotton, 8.C.L., Dean of Bangor.
The Vary Reverend A C.. Tait, D.O L., Dean of Carlisle:

P. Salomon, Esq , late High Sheriff of Sussex, Brighton.
William T. Kevill, Panes, Esq., Depnty-Lieutenant and late High
Sheriff of Herefordshire, Croft Castle, Wigmore.
•-•Francis Jervois Ellis Jervois, Esq., late High Sheriff of the county
of Southampton, Heriard Rouse.
William Money Kyrie, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant and High Sheriff of
Herefordshire, Homrne House. '
• The Rev: T. P. Wright, M.A., Honorary Secretary to the London
• Orphan .A.syluni#lfackney.
The Rev. Philip W. 114 y, Greensted Rectory, Ongar, Essex.
The Rev. Thomas Stanton, M.A., Burbage Rectory, near Marl-
• borough.
i The Rev. Charles Ca...:ston, M.A.. Stretton, Moreton-in-Marsh.
••, Charles Ormson Eaton, Esq., Tixover. .
Ntithaniel Hibbert, Esq., slundeu House.
George Olive-, Esq., Blackheath.
• Roherl Nicholas Fowler, Bin;., 50, Cornhill.
The/Aoki* Ezielli; Esq., 23, Threidneedlo-street.
Johntethert Helbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, and
toCk-Rxchang•e.
Albert WriAm,J•ustiCe, Esq., Thu/low Lodge, Wandsworth-road.
(With pOwer to add to their number.)
- • -- HONORARY TRUSTEES.
The Light 11owiniable Lord Erskine.
S. Hutcntsoh, P.sq/Mromley-hill; Kent
• Row J. Bartlett, 'Ma., Chairman c,l the Athena3um Life
• (Mee; Sackv/ile -street.
Srilauaar.-1. P.llll4.leyt Jun., Esq., 12, Pall-mall East.
. BANKERS.

• Agra and United Service Bank, Head Office, Agra; London Agency,
9, Old Jewry ;.Britnchee, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras.
• Messrs. Bartley, Bevan, and Co:, 54, Lontbard-stre( L.
Messrs. Bouverie, Murdoch, Bouverie, and James, 11, Haymarket.
Sir's f liam IL Call, Bart., G. B. Marten and Co., 2,, Old Bond-st.
t Messrs.-Cocks, Biddulph,.Cocks, Biddalph, and Cocks, 43, Charing-
cross.
, Messrs. Currie and,Ce,. 29, Corniaill., • •-
„ .
• Meagre. Dimsdale, Drewett, Fowler, and Barnard, 50, Cornhill. -
Sir Richard P. Glyn, Bart., • Halifax, Mills, 'and Co., 67, Lombard-
street. • -
Messrs, Herries, Farquhar, and C 4., IP,St.,Jamea's-street.
Sir John William Lubbock, Bart., Foester,-Clarke, and Co., 11, Man-
sion-house-street.
Messrs. onamanney, Son, and Co., 40, Charing cross (Navy. Agents).
Oriental Bank Cerporation, Head Offices, 7, Walbreok and Bombay ;
Branch Offices, Calcutta, Madras,. Colombo (Ceylon),- Siegapore,
Victoria (Hong Kong).
Messrs. Presce tt, Grove, Cave, Ames, and Co., 62, Threadneedle-st..
Aleiers.'Ptiget; Bainbridge, and-co., 12, St. Pauleechurchitard-
Ittitesrs: Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-mall East.
• Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Coe 15, '.Lombard-street.
• Sir Samuel Scott, Bart., and Co.„, I, Cavendish-square. •
Simla Bank, Head Office, Simla; Branch Offices, 4,. St. Martin's-
place, Trafaigar-square, and Celcutta. -
Messrs. Williams, Deacon, Labouchere, and Cc., 20, Birchin-lane.
Among the many benevolent and phi anthropic institutions with
which. this vast metropolis abounds, and which shod their lustre
under the bountiful hand of charity, there is not. a single institution
in existence directly imparting to the Veteran Warrior, his relict,
ultiialleetifute Citpliafi'ehildren, theitahafe of that bounty so gener-
ously apportioned to• every other branch of society. To supply this
Want, so long felt and acknowledged as a national reproach, this In-
stitution has been founded, under the auspices of their fellow-coun-
trymen, 10r the relief of Veteran Non-Commissioned and Petty
Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, of her Majesty's and the
Bonourable East India Company's Services, and their Widows and
Crpbans, as a grateful and lasting tribute by the British nation, in
honour of the great and distinguished services of the late Duke of
Wellington, and to give effect to the benevolent wishes and inten-
tions expressed in his letter of October 10th, 1846, subsequently re-
ferred to.
This unconscious neglect towards so meritorious a body of men,
500,000 of whom are engaged in the naval and military services of
the count-y, is obvious to every reflecting mind, when we consider
that the majority of them are debarred irom the exercise of those
civil rights and social privileges enjoyed by their fellow-countrymen,
tie which, in common with them, the Soldier and the Sailor have at
least an equal, if not a paramount claim.
The painful and harrowing scene, on the compulsory separation of
the Solder and Sailor, perhaps for ever, idiom his family, can be bet-
ter imagined than described, conscious, as he is, that should he fall
oa the battle-field, or be swept away by contagion in a foreign clime,
how little if any protection or succour will be extended to those he
may happen to leave behind; but should he survive, and return to
Iris native land, exhausted both in mind and body, the probability is
that he finds his family in the same utter state of destitution in which
he left them, and they are compelled on a scanty pittance to eke out
the remnant of a miserable existence, until at length death puts a
period to his sufferings, when that pittance ceases altogether, thus
leaving his widows and orphans totally unprovided for. Whet ism
euage then can depict the wretchedness of that forlorn and dejected
nidow, who is cast on the wide world friendless and destitute, with
her famishing young ones looking up, and clinging to her for food,
rairneet, and shelter, which, alas! she is unable to afford, and whose
cheerless prospects find refuge in tke union-house, or terminate in
the grave.
There needs no rhetorical display to arouse the feelings and enlist
the sympathy of Englishmen to a sense of the deep obligation they
owe to those who have devoted their youth and vigour to the service
of their country ; and with what zeal and alacrity wilt those brave
men go forth, in future, to encounter the enemies of our country, and
maintain unimpaired her renown and her wealth, when they reflect
that those having claims upon them are aemissible to this Institu-
tion—which, while it administers to their wants, will at the same
time soothe that bitter anguish known only to tee heart of the deso-
late, and extend to all the fostering hand of kindness.
ow great, therefore, are the claims of these classes when stricken
with years, or overtaken by sickness, upon our sympathy and bene-
volence, but more especially when it is remembered, that it is to them
we are mainly indebted for the liberty we enjoy, and the protection
afforded to those pursuits which have so signally contributed to the
unexampled proTerity of our country. To whom, then, can her
defenders appeal? Why, gratitude promptly answer to all, from the
Queen on the throne to the humblest individual in her realm.
On referring to the correspondence of the Secretary with the late
Duke of Wellalgton on this subject, we feel bound, in justice to the
memory of that great man, to publish the following extract from his
letter, dated " IValmer Castle, October 10th, 1846," which will be
preserved among the records of the Institution as the basis of its
foundation :
" Wben the Duke will see a well-considered plan for relieving the
distresses of the Widows
of Non-ComuleSioned OfficerisalhidisSooplindileorns:
and for the care of their Orphan Children, which last, n
ought to be formed on a plan similar to, or identical with, that of the
London Orphan Asylum. He would willingly contribute towards the
expense of carrying such a plan into execution.
" In respect to the Widows and Orphans of Officers of the Army,
the Laws and Regulations of the Service have already made provi-
sions for these, the administration of which has been placed under
. the exclusive control and direction of the Secretary-at-War, who
decides the question whether the Widow of an Officer should have
the Pension allotted by the Regulations to Widows of Officers of the
rank of her deceased husband according to the view which he may
take of the adequacy or otherwise of her other means of livine. It
. will be seen, therefore, that in every case in which an Officer's Widow
or Orphan Children might have a claim to a provision under the Laws
and Regulations administered by the Secretary-at-War, a Grant from
this intended Fund would only tend to diminish to an equal amount
the Grant solicited from the Public Fund under the administration of
the Secretary-at-War.
"But the Duke confesses that he sees many objections to levy
Subscriptions from Officers of the Army to provide for the Widows
.and Children of some already provided for by Government."
We cannot close this address without expressing a confident hope
that the public will, by a well-directed and combined movement, co-
operate with us, and give effect to the benevolent intent so admir-
ably expressed in the communication referred to
By granting limited pensions, in accordance with the funds of the
Institution, and admitting the recipients into an Almshouse and
Home, the neglected Veteran and Widow will be sheltered and pro-
vided for; and, by establishing a Collegiate Asylum, the Orphans
and Children admitted during the lifetime of their parents will be
protected and educated in a manner suitable to their several condi-
tions in life, and placed on an equality with those of the civilian.
The Institution will be supported by subscriptions and voluntary
contributions.
The Design of the Institution will be :
I.—That a pension not exceeding .£ per annum (the amour t
to be fixed at the first Meeting of Subscribers) be granted to Widows
, in distress and to Veterans not otherwise provided fir; and to excite
' emulation and good conduct, that au Almshouse be provided for
Widows in the decline of life, also a Home for the aged Veteran, and
that pecuniary aid be rendered in cases of emergency.
I.l.—That ample provision be made for the maintenance and edu-
4ation of Or_phan posits Orphan Children, whose relatives or friends
may not be in a on to do so, until u Asylum be provided for
them.` - •
IlL—ihat a Collegiate Asylum be endowed for the Orphans and
• Orphan Children, and those Children who may be received on the
foundation, during the lifetime of their parents, on terms commen-
surate with their means. That the management of the Asylum, as
regards inmates under 14 years of age, be adapted to the plan re-
commended by the late Duke of Wellington.
IV.—The Veteran's Home and Widows' Almshouse will be at-
tached to the Asylum, and, in accordance with the resolutions passed
at the public meeting held 21st October, 1852, the building will com-
prise a commodious and Magnificent structure, upon the most ap-
proved plan, bearing the name, and recording the triumphs of
" WELLINOToN.”
Candidates for relef are admitted by election; but in the case of a
soldier or sailor being killed in action, or dying on foreign service, his
Jamey shall be admissible to the institution upon the nomination of
the directors. Annual subscribers are entitled to one vote for every
guinea subscribed yearly. Life subscriber a are entitled to one vote
for every ten guineas contributed by them. Persons collecting sub-
scriptions or contributions are entitled to the like privileges in pro-
portion to the amount subscribed or contributed.
The property and funds to be ve,ted in trustees, to be nominated
at the first general meeting of subscribers ; and the Institution will
be under the management of a president, vice-presidents, and a
board of directors, consisting of 36 life governors.
Noblemen, military, naval, and other gentlemen, who feel an in-
terest in the welfare of the Institution, are earnestly requested to
give their patronage and support, and those noblemen age' gentle-
• men who may be desirous of becoming members of the committee,
will have the goodness to signify their wish to that effect. -
Subscriptions and contribution' are earnestly solicited, and will be
thankfully received on account of the Institution, by the committee
and honorary trustees, at the Offices or the Institution, or by the re-
aaective bankers.
A numerous list of country bankers will shortly be announced. -
HENRY TOMMEY, Jun., Secretary.
_ All communications to be addressed to the Secretary, at the Offices
of the Institution, 12, Pall-mall East, where attendance is given
daily from 11 to 4 o'clock.

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