The Sun.
London, England, 1805-04-12 00:00:00

SOCIETY' FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VICE.
' No. 3t, Essex street April to, act's.
THE GENERAL COMMITTEE of the SO.
CI ETY for the SUPPRESSION of VICE, respect-
fully address the Reverend the Clergy ; and conceiving (what
they presume the Legislature itself must have conceived and
intended, in framing• the A.dt of 19 Get). 11. C. at, viz.)
that the pradice of Profane Swearing might, in; some mea.
sure, he expo'Sed and checked by a periodical' revival of the
knowledge of the said Law, agreeably to the 13 Selion there-
of, by reading the same in all Parish Churches itml Public.
Chapels; &c. on the Sunday next following Avery Quarter,
Day ; beg leave, with great -deference, to recommend that
the leading of the said Ad accordingly bs revived, and in fu-
ture, religiously continued.
By „Order of the-Coittnittee,
. JOHN CRANCH, for the Secretztry.i

No. 3t, Essex-stieet,.April to, tgos.
THE SOCIETY for SUPPRESSION of VICE
having sent their usual Admonitions to certain Persons
at Edmonton, who kept their Shops open, and publicly eat-
ployed their Men,.on Sundays; and having, in consequence of
the disregard paid to their Admonitions, broit.,i,-ht several of the
Offenders to legal punishment, the respecA.ible part of the
Inhabitants of that neighbourhood were roused to more ex-
tensive exrtions i►` the .`ante way ; and those exertions ap—
pear to have been tbllow•ed by the most salutary and,decisive
eftedts. • .

The subject having been lately detailed in a letter to the
Society, no apology is here °tiered for meotithicnding the ex-
ample, as worthy of being followed in every town and vil-
lage in the Kingdom.
By Order of the Committee,
JOHN C RANCH, for the Secretary.
. (COPY)
`" To the SOCIETY for SUPPRESSION of VICE.
" GINTLILMEN,
_ _

When I last addressed you it was to state that many of
the Shops of Edmenten, and its neighbourhood, continued
open until Nine o'Clock Sunday Mornings. I have now to
say, that from the very laudable and prompt assistance afforded
by the Magistrates, this evil has, at length, disappeared ; and
with much pleasure ..I hand you the following Statement of
Fads :-'Upon application to the Magistrates at Tottenham,
they readily promised to put the Laws in force aainst such
Offenders as should be brought before therm. Two Butchers of
that place were accordinjly summoned, and paid the tine and
expellees. A Butcher ot S. to whom your Secretary had •
written ; but who, nevertheless, still sent his cart round, and
carried on his business, as usual, was then summoned, and
paid the fine and' expenceb.' This example produced a most
pleasing cited about Southgate and Winchmore-hill; as every
Shop, Butcher's and others, are nowslose shut the whole of
Sunday. It has put a stop to the unseasonable industry of a
Smith, who commonly worked all Sunday; and of a Farmer,
who worked,•and also paid his men on that day.; but, finding
strict inquiry was making respetting him,he now discontinues
his former praCtice, and rbys his labourers on Saturday. It was
very prevalent in this neighbourhood, with Gentlemen and
Farmers to pay their. labourers on the Sabbath ; but 1 believe
there are none at this time ; as, throughout.two Parishes, it
was made public, that the I )ffenders would be brought before
the Magistrates: Notice was also given to the Constables, that
information would be lodged against them, when they made
their return, for negleol of duty. The High Consttable of this
Distridi began to be alarmed, lest his own conduft should he
investigated. The Magistrates explained to him the Law, and
his duty an he immediately informal the other Constables,
and rode hirnselfthrough the Pistritt, cautioning the Shop-
keepers, and others' that they would no longer be permitted
to exercise their callings on Sundays., Lower Edmonton, on a
Sunday morning,. generally exhibited a kind of market for
buying and selling pigs and persons from three or four miles
round would resort to thisplaee for traffic. A Constable of Ed.
Inonton stoppetLadmie ot pigs for some time ; the man was
alarmed, and the Constable went on to Tottenham, where the
Constable of that place joined him the Drover begged hard
that they would let him go, promising never to offend again r.
noillave we now occasion to complain of this nuisance; The
Proprietor of a Waggon has been fined for travelling on Sun-
days ; and the Officers went to Hertford with a distress ter
the fine and expences. The Butchers at Edmonton conwlain-
ing-that the Shops at Enfield kept open, anti that their cus.
tomers went there to be supplied ; application was made to
the Reetor and High Constable; the Constables of that Parish
were warned to do their duty, or abide the consequence ; and
the High Constable himself gave notice to the Shopkeepers
to avoid offending against the Laws in future. I was Inform-
ed, by an inhabitant of Enfield, that such a Sunday had pot
been seen there these. 'eight and twenty years past. Our
Magistrates have issued a precept, calling upon the Church-
wardens, Overseers, Constables, and Headboroughs, to dia.
charge,faithfully their duty ; and they hold a Petty Sessions,
on purpose, once a month, to hear complaints. They have
given aria charge to the Constables, that if any complaint
is made good against them for negled of duty, they will fine
them heavily.
The. Publicans too begin to be very cautious how they
sell on Sundays, and, in general, a very essential and-desirable
reform has been effected in a neighbourhood where the pro-
fanation of the Sabbath was kirevalentin a very great and of-
lensive degree." . . .

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