The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-02 00:00:00

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SOCIETY for SUPERSEDING the NECESSITY of
CLIMBING BOYS, by encouraging a new Method of
SWEEPING CHININIES, and for IMPROVING the
CONDITION nICHILDREN and others employed by
CHIMNEY SWEEPERS.

London Coffee-House, March i 6, 1803-
A T a Meeting of the Committee of this Society,
held here this Day; _ _ _

ANGERST E 115.% Esq. V. P. in the Chair;
Resolved Unanimously, That the following Address be
printed and published in the Daily and other Papers.

TO THE PUBLIC.

The Committee of this Society having dire6led their atten-
tion to the means of procuring accurate information, as it re-
lates not only to anew method of Cleansing Chimnies, but
also to the Condition of those poor Boys who are at present
-employed in this Trade, beg leave to stateto the Public, that
adequate. Rewards have been advertised for the purpose of
inducing ingenious Mechanics to bring forward such Inven-
tions as shall either wholly or partially supersede the neces-
sity of Climbing Boys, and they will continue their endea-
vours zealously and assiduously to obtain this primary ob-
jea ; but as all new inventions are attended with uncertainty,
and as the present condition of manyof these poor Boys, calls
for the immediate interference and exertions of4he Commit-
tee, it has been thought necessary to institute, through the
medium of !student and discreet agents, apa r ula r enquiry
into tha Situation of thevatious Chimney Sweepers' Appren-
tices and Ithys'in the Metropolis. as far:as the nature of the
case will admit. And although the progress of this inves-
tigation is not sufficiently advanced to admit °fa deciled opi-
nion respecting the actual condition of these pour Infants ;
yet it has afforded no little consolation to the Committee to
have been able already to discover, that a certain proportion
of the Chimney Sweepers' Apprentices who have been bound
to the more reputable Masters, arc treated with humanity,
and considerable attention paid both to their religious and
moral instrudion.

At the same time there is much reason to apprehend, that
by far the largest proportion are much 'melee:led, and of those
that not a few arc doomed to sutler many unnecessary hard-
ships and much misery, which it is the object of the Coin-
mittee to relieve, by means or further legislative regulations,
in case it shall be found impradicable to discover proper sub-
stitutes: and it is with peculiar satisfaction, that (by an ex-
tension and a continuance of the public benevolence), the
Committee are enabled already to state their opinion as to the
pradicability ofameliorating the condition of these poor Boys,
under every circumstance which may occur. —First, by bind-
ing them out to other trades, in case they shall be no longer
necessary as Chimney-Sweepers.—And secondly, by secur-
ing to them good usage, with proper religious and moral in-
strudion, in the event of their being ultimately found indis.
pensably necessary in their present employment.
Erbm the interest which the Public has humanely iiken in
theprotedion of these poor Boys, it cannot fail to be satis-
fadory to have it disclosed, that the views of the Society ex-
tend to a most important object, as it relates to their tuture
welfare and usefulness in society, which is not generally
known to the community at large.
At the age of fifteen and sixteen years, the apprenticeships
of these poor youths expire, and about seventy in number in
each year are cast upon the world, without friends, and des-
titute of the means of earning a subsistence. —They arc then
of a growth which renders them unfit to sweep chimnies,
and very few can be employed as journeymen. -
It is therefore one oldie objeets of the Society (if enabled
so to do by the benevolence of the Public) to procure proper
masters, to whom these youths may be bound apprentices in
other useful mechanical employments, until they arrive at
the age of twenty-one years, and to allow a moderate appren-
tice tee out of the funds of the Society, to induce respectable
mechanics and others to receive them as apprentices.
A measure of this nature, so strohgly pressed upon the
Society, both by motives of policy and humanity,, cannot
tail to meet the approbation of the Public, to whose benevo.
hence ap appeal is earnestly made, to enable the Institution
to accoMplish this and the other objects, which have been al.
ready explained.
;OHM JULIUS ANGERSTEIN, Chairman.
N. B. I. It is estimated that
there are in the Metropolis and
its environs at present about zoo Master Chimney-Sweepers.
a. That these Masters em.
ploy about . 170 Journeymen.
3. And that they also em-
ploy about . se;.) Climbing Boys.

Total 870

' 4. That the number of Chimnies swept annually may
amount to about 710,0•0, comprising about t 3 tooo•Houses.
5. That the annual Expence to the Public
Inay amount to about . 4:.26000 0 0
6. That the pure and unadulterated Soot
'obtained from these Chimnies annually, id
400,000 Bushel*, and
ews
will
partoetdl
ut
to amountaboutt
25,000 o o

Total k•stiooo o o

Subscriptions continue to be received by the .44Ioviing
Bankers; Messrs. Down and Co. Bartholomew-lane Mess.
Newithain and Co; Mansion-house-street ; Messrs.,Hoares,
Fleet-street ; Messrs. Coutts and Cu. Strand.; Messrs.
Drurnrpottds, Charing-Cross ; Messrs. Hammersley'and,Co.
Pall-Mall ; and Messrs.. Birch, Chambers, and 'Hobbs,
Bond-street; and also by the Treasurer, Mr, W. Tooke,
No. to, Gray's-Inn-square; and by the Secretary, Mr. Jas.
tiebdin, No. 41„ Bernard-street, Russell-square, to whom
all Plans and Conimunications, are to be addressed.

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M,SSRS., HORNSBY and Co. acquaint their
Friends and the Public, that the ENGLISH' STATE
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Tickets, Halves, Quarters, Eighths, and Sixteenths, are
now selling_ in, great variety of N,umbers, and at the lowest
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