The Sun.
London, England, 1807-07-29 00:00:00

DEAF AND DUMB.

GENERAL MEETING of the SOCIETY for
EDUCATING the DEAF and DUMB CHI LDREINI
of the POOR, held at the CitY•of LOndon Tavern, I uly -11, •
1807 ;
CHA RD THORNTON, Esq, in the Chair. •
The usual business of the Meeting being gone througll,:the
-.Society proceeded to the Election of Nine Children into the
Asylum, and at the Close of the Poll the Nine following
were declated.duly eleded: ' Polled.
Isabella Harnett. an Orphan -.- 1888
Mary Ann Somerfield,, Father a Millwright, with five.
'Children - - • - t 849
Sarah Rug, Father a Labourer, with six Children 18ao
Mary, •I)icey, fath..te a,Mariner 26
Silly Howell, Father asMariner •- . 118762
lane Bell, Mother a Laundress, with four Children Int
john Chambers,• Father a I.)ayllabourer, With live
Children' • - .. • - - 1666 •
lane hula'', Father a Labourer, eight Children . 'oXi
Leip'ntan Lazarus, Father very poor, three Children IgBr
The Committee have. again the inelaucholy task. of direct-
,
ing the public attention to a List of Sixty unsuccessful
didares at this FieCtiori,S who were necessarily denied admit-
tanee front the present limited state of the -Asylum. Tina
most distressing fact will, it is hoped, awaken the sympathy
of a• generous i. üblie, and, by immediately increaaing the.
SubScriptialis, enable the Cominittee to complete without
further delay, the New Building•which they have felt it ,their
duty to begin, although neirly half the Money necessary to
defray the-Expence. still remains to be collected. The Com-
mittee have the 6.ltiSlidiQll of ainnouncing, that the first
Stone was laid on the ttth of July last, by- his. Royal High. .
' thu Dkike of Gloucester, attended by the, Right Hon.,
the. Lord Mayor. . and aivinvrous sand respectable assembly
of the Friends of the I ostituti6n. His Royal Highness gene-'
rO•faiy presented a Donation of Fifty Guineas,' as did zilso.the
Lord Mayor a- DOnation of Fifty Guineas,; Charles Fieschell,
,Esq, lofty Guineas ; Samuel Thornton, Esq. Twenty Gui-
'neaa ;and„ her Royal Highness- the Duchess of Brunswick
has-graciously transmit ted .by his Royal Highness the Duke
of Gloucester t Donation of Twenty Guineas...
A. Donarion.ot• Teo Guineas or upwarch constitutes the
PerSonsubscribing a G,,vernot ter-Lite. - •
Subscriptionsl are received by the Treasurer, Henry Thorn-
• ton, Esq. M.P. Bacatioloinew,-lane; the. Gentlemen'ot the
• Committee ; by the, Sub-Treasurer, Rei. lohlti.TO*3lSehd..
jilttlaiVa- tow, 13erinondsey,..or 1.0, Lower, Thathes-streefv-
bY the Secretary, Rev. Richard 'Yates, B. D. cheiSea Col-
lege; by Henry Clemson, Deputy Secretary, Long, lane,
Bermondsey,- and the following Banking Mouses —Messrs.
DUrrien,• and -Finch-rant; ; 'Down,
Thornton, 'and Co.. ItartholomeW-lane; Sir:lames Esdaile.
and. Co. ;Lambard-street ; Sir Richard Carr Glyn and Co.,
Bitchin-lane ; Harrison, Prickett, and Co: Mansion House-
street ; Fuller, Oiatteris; and Co, Lombard-street ; Ran-
som,,Morlatiti, and Co. Pall-Mall; Welsh, Rogers, and Co.
Cornhilk- ,Sir Matthew •Blos,liant and Co. Graceeliurch-
street ; Weston, Pinhoi•n, and Co. Borough Bank ; Ham-
.
frierkieys,GreentvOod; aiicl Co. riiit-Miill.•'
11.1' Those ~vho leave Donations at the Bankers are partl-
cuiarly desired.r, mention tney are for tile New Building.
1: I C it.l RD. YA: T BS, LLD, and F.S.A. See. •

• • INbiA,TRAISE

•
• ' Saturday, July tç, tSo7. .
THE MERCHANTS and INHABITANTS of
.1.1 IF /4. 0 L, end its 'Environs, are retitiested to
attcni a PUBLIC !NIG, ti) be held within the Ex,.
'at Ilalf,past Twelve o'Clock this Day, for the
purpose of taking into consideration the expedient of Pre...'
renting an humble P;:tition to the Legislattire,..pra)ing that
th_ present applieatiortof the East India Compan, to hor,
row iswo Nlillintis on their Bond may not receive the 5an...2-
tloti of Parliament', until' a full inquiry shall have been
made, whet her the nican3 and prospeZts of the 'East India
Coolvany,• for the, repayment thereof, are siici), ii would
ju the proposed Loan ;,anti also whether the continuance
Of this extensive of Our C-olOinerce, undet the' present
system of.a charter.Ni monopoly, is calculated to promote
tmi mill and pernvioent. interests of either our A'siatic fosses_
semen;, the British Empire, or the East India ComPapy.
selVes,

• lotepli Greaves Samuel Sraniforth •
. Thomas I se Henry E. Roberts
Thomas Rodie Lacoh Fletcher,
Samuel Holland, Edward'rearson !.- • ,
Thomas.Lowndes, jun. Witii.irn M4Lvet
• Samuei.Thompson Wilii,tip Hurry
William Neilson . Willis Earle
• William Rattabone Nathaniel IleyWood. •
• john Tahiti
At a Publie,Meeting.of the Merchants and Inhabitants of
Liverpool, convened in persuance'or toe. preceding. Notice,
and held in the Town Hall, within the Eitclipge, this 'zstli
July,- iBo7
WI LLI AM. RATHBPN E, Esq.:, in the Chair.
Resolved, TlFit an humble Petition be presented to both
Huuses of Parliament, praying that the prrsont application
of the East India Company, to borroW Two Millions on their
Bonds, may not receive the sanetio,n of Parliament, until.a
full inquiry slid! have been instituted, whether -the means
a
and prospes of the East India CoMpany for the re-payinent
thereof,. are such :is would justify the,protiusui Loan; and
also, whethei the continuance of this.extenstve branch ()four
Commerce, under the presertes Stem of a chartered mono-
poly, is calculated to promote the real and permanentinte.
tests of either our Asiatic Prissessions, the British Empire,
or the got India Company ,thents,lyes.
Thai the Petitions now produced be adopted, and that they
continue for signatures till post this Eveniug, and be
then dispatched- ter Lyndon.. • .

That Licutenant,Ceneral Tarleton and Major.Gencral
Gascoyne, be requested to present the Petition to the I ionse
of Cominon4: •
Thaz•His.ltoyal Highness • the Duke of, Gloucester. if in
London, or it; absent, .I.nd (_; renville, be requested to present
the Petition to the House of Lords.
That these ItesAllitioni be 'signed kyr the Chairm:in, and
published in all the. Liverpool, and in the following London
Newspaper's: SUN, The 'nines; Tlie Star; The COIL..
rice, The (; lobe, The Nlorning Chronicle; and that a Snb_
iiciiption be entered into lin,defraying the Ex pcnces that ,nlay
he incurred in the prosecution of thi, Buhl:fess.
WILLIAM 14AT1114910.

The Chairman having left the Chair, ittwas re4olyecl una-
nimously, on the motion of Mr ,Booth, that theThmika of
this" Meeting be given 'to William Rathbone,- Eti; • for his in,
delatigable, iinvartial; and.patriotiecoaduct in. the BUSII.ICSS,
gitbiti day.
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