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King's Arms Yard, Coleman-street, SIMON FRASER.
March 28, 1808.

THE SHERIFFS' FUND,
Per the temporary Relief of the distressed Families and Devil.
dant, of Persona in Confinement ;
Fora temporary Provisicin for Persons who, on being discharged
from Confinement* have no Means of present Subsistence ;
And for, the pecuniary Aid of other Objeits'of Distress, who come
under the offscial Cognizance of the Sheriffs.
THE SHERIFFS Of LON;DOM and MIDDLESEX, agree-
ably to their pledge to the 'Benevolent Persons who have
kindly seconded their exertions in 'Behalf of the Criminal Poor,
and of other unfortunate Persons, confined in the Prisons of the
Metropolis, have drawn up a Statement of their Receipts and
Disbuist.ments. At the same time that they return their warmest
Thanks to those who have so liberally aided their Design, they
think it necessary to state, that their Means have hitherto been
very inadequate to the Magnitude of the F,vils which they have
every inadequate to the Magnitude of the vils which they have
s'sught to alleviate; and that, at the average Rate of their Expen-
diture, their Fund *ill soon be exhausted, unless it be aided by
the Contributions of all Persons who duly estimate and feel for
such accumulated Misfortune and Wretchedness as is the object
of this Subscription.
SUBSCRIPTIONS. Z. 4. I. DtssuitsßmlNTs. C. z. d.
Amount received, as To sixty-five persons,
per last advertise- for temporary sub-
ment - 242 14 0 sistence, on their
Sums received since. being discharged
Sir Richard Hardinge, from confinement,
Bart. 3 5 0 some of whom
N. Aeheson, Esq. 11 0 were sent back to
Mrs. Acheson 1 0 0 their native places 94 17 6
Friends of Dr. haves 3 3 • Per immediate relief
Mr. Joyce Gold 1 0 0 to 'the Distressed
Quarks Harris, Esq. 10 0 0 Wives and Cbil-
h4. H. Eyre, Esq. per dren of numerous
Smith, Payne and prianneis 52 15 0
Co. 2 lt, 0 For seven tens of po-
James Deacon, Esq. 2 2 0 tatoes, dinsibuted
R. Lee, Esq. 1 1 0 at the rate of a
AtionYmous 1 0 0 pound, or half-a-
W. Wilberfvree, Esq. pound per day a-
M. P. 5 5 0 mongtheprisoners,
A. B. N. 1 1 0 according to their
A. P. H. 0 1 0 , necessities 58 10 0
A. F. 1 1 0 For oatmeal, onions,
Messrs. Bond & Sons 3 3 0 andicaks, fora daily
The Committee of supply of oatmeal
City Lands, to- porridge to the fe-
wail's Cloathing 25 0 0 male convicts
S. A. Thompson, Esq.l 1 0 For coals and candle..
A. Hlghtuore, Esq. 1 1 0 for a moderate sup-
J. Cerpe, F.iq. 1 1 0 ply to all the poor
J. Jellicoe, Esq. 11 0 wards 13 t 4 6
Miss Jellicoe 1 1 0 For soap and otherar-
W. L. per Brown, tides caletiltted to
Cebb and Co. 10 10 0 promote cleanliness 6ID 0
A. M. 1 1 0 For legal assistance,
Messrs. Burchell,Say- by mean of which
er, Henchman and twenty-nine poor
Cator lbo 10 0 debtors have ben
Sir Henry Wilson, 7
Foreman, and the
rest of a Grand' uiT
for Middlesex 4 0 0
Another Middlesex
Jury 0 15 6
W. C. 1 1 0
The Rev. P owland
Hill 0 10 6

persons imprisoned
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For advice, assistance,
and proceedingi in
regard to nume-
rous other debtors 10 10 0
For sundry articles of
cloathing, is shoes,
stockings, shirts,
jackets, petticoats,
&c. 46 11 0
For porter allowed to
399 14 11 mothers who have
296 7 S bad children at the
----- breast, end for pH-
Balance in hand 93 7 8 sneers threatened
with low fevers for
want of adeqnite
sustennice 6 14 0
For sundry disburse-
ments, as rewards
for cleanliness, Jr.c. 6 10 0
For advertising, and
for expences of
printing 44 16 •

T 15 S'

gate after long im-
prisonments (dee
number of whose
wives and children
exceeded itOsoub),
and many of them
were sailors arrest- .
ed by ethwpi oil
sham actlunsi- or.

Prmalice of the Poor's
Boxes at Newgate,
to Merck 7 20 4 6
Ditto, at theCompters 7 11 11
J. M. 2 2 0

Miss Bayley, of Rams-
bury Manor 5 0 0
C. N. Bayley, Esq. 5 0 0
3. M. Raikes, Esq. 5 0 0
1. Morgan and Sons 2 2 0
Alexander Smyth,Esq.2 2 0
A Purse, per Watson 1 1 0

Receipts

Disbursenients 1296 7 3
The Sheriffs feel themsAver bound to acknowledge the obligor
lions they are under to the' SOciety for promoting Christian
KnoWledge, for a liberal supply of Bibles, Testaments, and Psal-
ters ; to the Society for the Refuge' of the Destitute, for much
well timed rcsistance • to the Society for the Relief of Persons
imprisoned for Small bebts, by whose means many deserving ob-
Sects have been released every month ; and to the Worshipful
Conipany of Drapers, for slinlhlr assistance; also to Messrs. Birch,
Leeds; LeWis, lad othersi for supplies* of
waste provisions.
CHRISTOPHER sMrn4,l
Serlfg*
RICHARD PHILLIPS, S

Guildhall, March 14, 18011.
la Subscriptions and Cornmenications continue to be -received
by the present Sheriffs, C. Asti TII, Esq: Qum:lrma, Chtapside,
idyl R. Psn.Lirs, Esq. Bridge-street, asathgni- also by the
Under-Sheriffs, I. F. Vasnsraeom, Esq. BtislAssie; nnd lons'
Linos, Esq. Crescent-Plsee; by- gise Keepers of Nesirgate,. and
Compters, and Ludgek ; and by the Bankmi in London.

•

SUSSEX ELECTION. •
ACommitteeT an adjourned Meeting of the cif
A. Freeholders of the County of Sussex, who have petitioned
ro defend the Return of John Fuller, Esq. as one of the Iteprep.
sentatives Of this County In Parliament, held at the Crown and,
Anchor Tavern, in the Strand, the 25th day of March, 1808,
RICHARD tioLusT, Esq. in the Chair,
Remlved, That the Subscription already set An foot for the
support of the Petition be continued, and that Subscriptions bk.
received at the following Banking Houses :
Messrs. Hoare and Co. Fleet-street, London,
Cured. and Co. Rye,
Lampoon, and Co. Battle,
Breedes and Co. Hastings,
Whitfield and Co. Lewes
Bushby and Co. Arundel,
Griffiths and Co. Chichester,
Upton and Co. Petworth,
Grinned and Co. Horsham,
Burt and Co. Eastgrinsted,
Noakes and Co. Ticehurst,
Woodgate and Co. Tunin idge, Kent.
That this Resolution be published in the London Morning and
Evening Papers, and in the Provincial Papers.
RICHARD HOLLIST.
The Chairman having left the Chair, it was moved and Re-
solved—" That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Chair-
man for his attention to the business of the dam"

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