The Sun.
London, England, 1821-01-02 00:00:00

LONDON WORKHOUSE.

Last night this Asylum, part of which has been
granted-for the use of Subscribers to the Fund
for the House Less .eppr., was opened for the re-
ception of the. wretched. The Committee had
met early in the day for the purpose of super-
intending.some necessary afterations in the work-
house for the accommodation of the houseless.

While the Committee were employed in the
new arrangements, an application was made by
Mrs. Fry, who has had a very great increase of
unfortunates upon her list, to the Directors, to
permit the,admission of such females as might be
discharged from the prisons in which she dis-
penses her charities. The application was ac-
companied by an assurance that the Governors,
in granting such permission, would act up to the
spirit of the Act of Parliament for the regulation
of• the house. The subject is to undergo imme-
diate consideration.

It has been determined by the Committee,
that the cases of applicants for admission shall
,undergo the strictest immediate examination that
can be made, and that none shall be received who
have a distinct legal claim upon any parish. The
object the Committee profess is the saving from
starvation, or the fatal effects of an exposure to
the cold, those who have no recognizable claim
to parochial relief.

Members are "to 'be appointed from the Com-
mittee to scour the markets and pent-houseS of
the Metropolis nightly, in search of fit objects
for the ia3tice of the Committee. They calculate
that hunger, is
.not " amongst the 'postponable
wants," and that many a young man comes up
to'.London full of epectations, and with little or
no money, and that unless he can get immediate
employ, he is already half undone—that boys
bred up in London without any means of liveli-
hood, and, as often happens, of dissolute parents,
are in a still worse condition, and servants out of
place are,nottnuch better off.

It is necessary to state, that during the period
when shelter was afforded last winter to the poor
in--Mr. nicks2a Warehouse, in London Wall,
1522 persons were relieved ; and that the ex-
pence incurred was little, more than, upon an
average, gs. each individual. The• Committee of,
last year ascertained, that there are at all times
persons in the Metropolis in want of nightly
shelter. Several of the Gentlemen who com-
posed 'that Committee traversed the several dis-
tricts, the accustomed haunts of the miserable ;
they visited also different watch-houses, and con-
versed with night constables, patroles, and others,
in different parts of the town, who all concurred
in opinion, that a r;st improvement was discern-
able in the state of the streets, during the night.
since the. opening of the Refuge for the Houseless.

A meeting has been held .at Plymouth to con-
sider or- the advantages of lighting that town
with gas, and a Committee thereon appointed to
make the necessary iUquiriei.
',The catch of herrings and. sprats last week at
Flymouth 'was so plentifUl, that"the former have
been,cri4l found
.th.e tow-6 at.2d. per dozen, and
the latter at a-half-penny- per. quat t. -

THANKS to the I)EERS qf SUS3i?,X,

•
[From The 'lamps/lire Telegraph. ,
-The Address of the Inhabitants of the City Of
Chichester -to the Peers connected with the
County of Sussex, who voted against the Bill of
Pains and Penalties, with _the Answers of the
Noblemen.
wr, lire' undersigned. Inhahitmts. of the 'City and
Suburbs of Chichester,entertaThing to deeptst see of at-
tachinent and veneration for that admirable system of Con-
stitutional Liberty, to which the people of England
are mainly indebted for their security and happiness ;
and having witnessed nit!) the liveliest apprehension
the attempt recently made by the Ministers of the
Crown to overthrow the barriers which defend that liberty,
by establishing, the dangerous precedent of arbitrary
jurisdiction in . the two Houses of Parliament, con-
founding in the persons of the smile individuals, the
characters of Legislators, Accusers, and Judges; emp oy-
ing the weight' and influence -of .the Crown to per-
vert the upright Niininistration of justify; violat-
ing the sacred prinei;riej of equity, by having recourse to the
testimony of w:tnesses ho appear to have been suborned;
with-running the ieverence of the people for Royalry, by ux-
posing the person of a Qneen to open infamy: and endao-
gering the noirais of the community, by the publication of a
great mass of disgustingly indecent evidenee—proccedings
at once ' derogatory to the dignitsit the Crown, and iiijori•
ous to the best interests.of the empire :' deem it our duty to
express our thanks for the part taken by your Lordship, in
the lateproceedines; to full conviction, that your upright
and independent iesistance to the unjustifiable measures of
Nlinisters, has tended it, fio sinall.degree, to preserve the hum-
our, and establish the security of the Nation; and we ear-.
firstly hope, that if any future attempt should he made to-re-
sort to measures of a similar tendency, your Lordship' will'
give to such measures your decided opposition.
The following Answers were given to the
Deputation from. -Lord-- SELSEY

GNNTLEMEN—I beg leiter to offer you my most sincere ac-
knowledgment: for the Address which you have this day done
the the honour to presCnt.
I must, however, declare, that I am utterly unconscious that
any public act of mitre can•have entitled me to this extraor-
dinary and distinguished mark of your consideration and re-
sin et ; for I caimot i hint: so ill of mankind as to imagine that
it can require any extraordinary effort of public virtue to act
fearlessly, conscientiously, and honestly, when compelled to
the performauee-of a most painful but unavoidable duty.
Although it most at all times he a subject of pride and gra-
tification to toe to know that my public conduct has been ap7
proved by so respectable and enlightened a portion of •my fel-
low subjects, as those inhabitants of the City of Chichester who
hisve dour me the honour to affix their names to thisAditress;
I,*never theless, feel myself called upon reluctantly. to declare,
that I have not the good -fortune to concur in asiy etpe weird
in the Addres,, beyond that of entertaining, in cotintion
with every good and loyal subject, the deepest sense
veneration and attachment to that.admirable system of Con-
stitutional Liberty, to which the people sof this country are
so essentially indebted for their peace, happiness, and securi-
ty. Thus much I have thought. it My duty to state, fearing•
that, had I been silent, I might he supposed to acquiesce in
the other opinions and expressions contained in this Address,
Which, in my opinion, tend to cast imputations and aspersions
on the motives which have influenced his Majesty's Govern-
ment during the course of the late unfortunate proceedings;
and fur which, in my humbh, judgment, there is mr just or
reasonable ground of belief; for though I do not think that
they. have on this occasion, acted wisely, or judiciously, I
must utterly disclaim being supposed to participate in opi-
nions which tend to convey an idea that the conduct of his
Majesty's Government has 'been governed by any other prin-
ciple, than that of an anxious desire to fulfil what they con-
ceived to be their fluty to their Sovereign and their Country.