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of the Address sent honie two years' ago, and circulated in Great
Britain and Ireland.

Thenecessity.of same such Association:sit the titre-when the
Prodigious influx of Emigrants was here, and the' inhabitants
'were 4ppared.for it, was felt and ac p
ted uon in every part of
Ndrth America to which they repaired; Societies (which still
exist) -were' formed in the principal sea-ports of the United
States, and even in.the inland towns of the British Provinces,
though the pressure of distress falls always upon the point of de-
barkation. The Address of the Quebec Emigrants Society,
already adverted to points out a number of causes which
114ve combined, to throw upon this, City, at the approach of
Winter, an accumulation of helpless, and .distressed objects.
The first Establishment for their. relief which was regularly
formed at Quebec, was that which in the winter of 1817-18,
was Opened and conducted at. St.. Roch, by a few benevo-
lent Gentlemen of the -mercantile. profession, . upon a scale
comparatively small, but according to a system and method
rilich met with the general approbation. It was in the fol-
4uwillg Summer and _Autumn .that the distresses. of • the
Settlers, then fast increasing in number, began to obtrude
themselves upon the public eye. . Sickness very generally pre-
vailed among them, and to an extent infinitely beyond the ac-
cuannodadon of the only established Hospital of the City; and
there were instances in which persons in a diseased, and even in
a delirious state, were.picked up in the streets, and in the fields
adjacent to the town. Whole families spent the nights upon the
rharfs, or crept into sheds, in which they sometimes remained
u) charitable sufferance long after the season rendered such te-
nements unfit to protect them. A meeting of the Inhabitants
was called, and a liberal subscription raised—the Duke of Rich-
mond, then commander of the forces, gave authority for the ap-
propriation of a vacant barrack; with every other facility that
was required, and an establishment, in the shape of an hospital,
was formed. The various objects of the Subscription were exe-
cated by a small Committee, and the En:do-ran t's society was not
lbrrned till the folldwing year (1819,) wfien the concern became
so large and complicated that the persons who managed it were
glad to call in the aid of their fellow-citizens. Stated Meetings
were held, and a rotation of duty was established; arrangements
were Made fbr rendering information and assistance to the inex-
perience anddistress of these poor adventurers—the receptacle at
the Cape was continued, and the admission of destitute as well as
diseased persons was allowed. The number of • the -sick alone
aPaount44 at one time to about 90, and many pf the cases were
of a malignant nature. It was impossible that such a tem-.
Porary institution, growing out 'of the mere necessity of the
case, and gathering numbers from day to day, could be provided
with the comforts, or conducted with all the discipline and order,
,nt. a, regular establishment. It exhibited a spectacle at that time,
'.,l'Lleartening to Charity, but imperiously challenging the con-
tinuance of her aid. And, whatever trifling impositions may have
ben practised upon the Society, or whatever evils mixed up :with
good which has been their aim, (objections which apply more
°C less to all charities whatever,) those who have been most con-
ersant with the affairs of this Institution will be bold to assure
Public that the supplies of their generosity have been instru-
”a•ental, all along, to the relief of an immense mass of human
16`:'lseTV, in its severest shapes, for which object some little occa-
misapplication, some unavoidable abuses, 'may well be
compounded for and willingly overlooked. • • -•-
(T. J. MOUNTAIN, •
FREDK. A RABI N, Committee.
T. W. SATTERTHWAITE, of Report.
EMIT!). HALE, Jr. •
Quebec, Novr. 12, 1821.
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