The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-03 00:00:00

BETHEL UNION•

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A meeting of the British and Foreign - g;a4beCi/
Friend Society and Bethel Union was held yesterdaY A' ding
tan, attentic,
of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, and notwiths
unfavourable state of the weather, was most numerotiw w
ed. The Right Hon. Admiral Lord GAMBIER. Viagf, by 01
the chair at 6 o'clock, and after a prayer had been ma bung
Rev. Mr. Brown, of South Ockendon, and a Psal,,,te-aings,r
the company assembled, the retrospect of the P.—e-the sene
the society during the last year was read by one 01 of
taries. From this document it appeared that one of 064
grand objects had been to diffuse through all ran us sta'..
community a proper concern for the moral and reit OIL
of seamen and seaboys, trusting that, when that
~w„auelf_n
plished, means might be devised to improve an
had ea
their condition. The success of the exertions it '0
made exceeded the most sanguine expectadons of
elisuoilithe,
friends, and was to be seen in the fact that the Beth
nreats,l_7o
now frequently. requested by moral and religiono to tn`i:A
• 'to,l‘ -
had children with an inclination for the sea to pain nder9
_to
" such vessels in the merchant service as had eorn,ln, hid fr-me
feared God." It likewise appeared that the soose`i lon -,e
into consideration the state of the watermen who P
Thames, and that the result of their inquiry had been W
oop
that there were 60,000 persons on the river for wh°seneet stsd
instruction no specific provision was made. The reansrtigugs—;
that the society had done what it could for them, by", cbarbee
mons to be preached at different stairs and in varionra oas
and added, that a new floating chapel, to be in°°,..kas
Tower, was in contemplation for their benefit. To ek.700 are
possible the drunkenness and impurity to which OW los .11134 i
posed by lodging in public-houses, and the sha_nhe 001.0.
sition practised upon them by unprincipled• fat°,4o
took, last year, a house in Hermitage-street, Mrar...,Paresit.
ed it plainly with beds, &c., and placed it un'T .resterSeis
tendance of a pious active man, who has spent. is,,°..are
of his life at sea. The most happy conseque. spent..
patal from this plan., which has met the appron'T valict-t:e
port of the East India Company. The retrosPe4'th 0 ow•-,t
tends over 20 closely printed pages, concludes diffeli.
detail of the efforts which the society has made itt °a of the
outports for the improvement of our sailors,. an ee.or-hy
tempts which have been made in foreign countries t°
with its exertions. After it had been read and °PI,Pr: Dee t
the meeting, several Rev. Gentlemen addressed_ 'midst —OOl
and inculcated the necessity of contributing to itsere tin re'
appeared from the financial accounts that theYrnee? sefelnea
to the expenditure which the society had W : also c".,a'ted
solutions were then put and carried ; officers were
...,o then '-oul
tfoorLtohredscrocaimetybideru;rinagndt,haeftneerxatnyoetiarle.r
pTsalimanikisaarreeoutitsafetritist
prayer made, the Meeting broke up ; but not withf the Oea
a liberal contribution for the society in the hands °
men who stood to colic.% it at the doors.
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CoLCIIESTER, SEPT. 30.—Last lateAr
4_,fity
ed in the Church at Witham, to the memory 0' --ontine
deacon JEFFERSON, a handsome, but 800 e nitobt
tablet, and inscribed with a just and appro_prinLef e if;
the pen of the Rev. G. Preston, Rector of Les"`"-- n top—
A snake which has for some time beeo Arsviclls;
a domesticated state in the museum, in •
ce. tou
had been frequently fed upon live "1i of
week a mouse was put to it, but it beitingsash!e,
large a size for the snake to gorge as t 9 '"0
endeavoured, like the Boa Constrictr°:o'o,cit°ll°o
t
velope it in its folds, when a as, r,
battle ensued and after repeated atta
• ble
snake fell a victim to its more nun in I •
sary, who gained its advantage area
beacl'.,
ing severe wounds on the backer f of a
sTisitieanmcei:ebbuetfosreeegrniveedntoh4vbeecnoemve:aft;e6l:4o
The itZ
fall an easy prey to their enemf• eel Da
was
found at sea, about six weeks sin $
ming with its head erect out of the vi
was about three feet in length.

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