The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-12 00:00:00

STRANGERS' FRIEND SOCIETY.

rpm?, COMMITTEE of this CHARITY beg
-A- leave• respectfully to express their Obligations to those
Benetolent Persons by whose Christian Liberality they have
been enabled, to increase the Weekly Relief to the numerous
Families now under their notice-from Is. Gd. to 2s. 6d. and in
sonie cases to ss. each. There are at present:77s cases of urgent
distress visited and relieved by the Society, to whom the Com-
'Mitt ee are anxious to afford continued assistance, as we!l as
to take up, all such Other cases as may occur during the Win-
ter.- To meet this exigency, they cariie-stly solicit a Innevo-
lent Public (in the language of, the Times Journal), "to
commence a series 'of Contributions—their time—their
thought—their money (the cheapest offering of them all)—
and at this inclement season, which will give place to mere
genial skies—and at this pinch and crisis of our calamities
about, we trust in Providence to pass away-with the keen
blasts of winter, by which they are aggravated—to strive to
alleviate the misery which surrounds them, and every shil-
ling bestowed in diminution of human wretchednesi will re-
pay itself a thousand-fold in the-blessings that it gives and
receives."

During the last year this Society has visited and relie'vde
at their own habitations 8,540 families, among which tha
sum of L. 3,378 !Os. 9d. has been distributed.

DONATIONS LATELY RECEIVED.

L. s. d.
W. A. Garratt, Esq. - - 20 0 0
F. Garfatt; Esq. - - - 20 0 0
(.G. - - - - 10 0 0
F. K. - - - - 5 0 0

N. B. Kindersley, Esq. - - i 0 0
.1. K. and F. F. - - - 5 0 0
Anonymous from Clapham to Mr. Cooper 20 0 0
T. B. - - - - 5 0 0
J. B. Wilson, Esq. ". - - 20 0 0,
IL C. - - . - - 50 0 0

Lidy by Mr. Hvicbard - - 10 0 0
R. H. Int;lis' Esq. - - 10 0 0
Mrs. Price, Gloucester-place - b 0 0 0
Honourable Mrs. Digby - . 10 0 0
.
C. C. - - - 5 0 0
C. C.. - - - - 5 • 0 0

G. 'l;ernpleman, Esq. - - 5. () 0
E. B. Wilbrahain, Esq. M.P. • - 10 0 0
Right Honourable John,Treror - 10 0 0
A. B. by Messrs. Hoare - - 5 0 0
Henry Drummond, Esq. - - 10 10 0
Earl of Chichester - - 10 0 0
A. B. by Messrs. lanes, Jones, and Co. '5 5 0
George Wolff, Esq. .. . 00 0 0
J. Buller, F.sq. - . - 10 0 0
Mrs. D'Oyley . • • is o 0
John Holmes, Esq. - - 10 0 0
John Buller, Esq. - - • - _ . ,_ - .6 0 0
Mr. Holland - - - - 10 0 0
'Mr. Brookshank - - - 6. 0 0
Countess Macartney . 10 0 0
J. H. Jessop, Esq. Annual Christmas Danationlo 10 0
Mrs. Jessop, Ditto Ditto - 10 10 0
F. J's. Xmas Donations for 11 Lving-in Women,
One Guinea each •. -, -- '. •- - 11 11 0
Ditto, for 11 Blanket., at fis. each - 4 0 0_
Ditto, for 11 sacks of Coals, ss. each - 213 0
Ditto, for special purposes - - 6 2 0
T. Warre, Esq. - - - 10 10 0
John Bullet, Esq - - a. • 10 0 V
Mrs. Buller - - - 10 0 0
Sir William Weller Pepys, Baronet • - 50 0 0
Mrs. Benyou' Grosvenor-Square - 5 0 0
Honourable Mr. Dutton - - 10 0 0
A. B. by Nletssts: Birch and Co. - ' "10 0 0
John Arnold, Esq. - - 10 10 0
Miss Caroline Arnold - - 10 10 0
Miss Charlotte Arnold .. - lO 10 0
R. Bevan, Esq. . - - -- 10 0 0
CZ W. by ,Post - - - 20 0 0
Sir William Weller Pepys, Birt., 2d donation 50 -0 0
Mts. Emma Crouleholme - 5 0 0

Humanitas, by Post from Elten
S. A. F. by Post
Robert Barclay, Esq. Bury Hill

a 5 0 0
-, 10 a 0
V
-to 1-0 o

The Committee thankfully acknowledp the receipt of
many other similet Donations which will appear in the an-
nual Report soon about to be pdblished.

Subscriptiotr and donations are received by W. Marriot, Esq.
77, Broad-street, Royal Exchange, Treasurer; Mr. H. Clarke,
52, New Bond-street; and Mr. William Cooper, 8, Queen-
street, Cheapside, Secretaries; Messrs. Owen and Elliot,
31, Gutter-lane, Cheapside; John Butterworth, Esq., and
Son, Fleet-street Messrs. Innes, Jones, and Co, 192, Fleet-
street ; Mr. Jarratt, se 7, Providence-row, Finsbury-square ;
Mr. Crump ,Spencer-row, Goswell-street-road, Collectors; and
by the following Bankers ; Messrs. Ctsatteris and Whitmore,
Lombard-street; Messrs. Hoare, Fleet-street;' and Messrs.
Birch.and Chambers, New Bond-street.

THE FIRE AT OXFORlL—'Twenty-fourchamhos,
three staircases, the hall, with the valuable pic-
tures, and all the musical inktruments for the in-
tended Concert, fell a prey to the devouring
flames at Magdalen-hall, on Sunday morning.—
All the inmates escaped in their shirts; five Gen-
tlemen had nearly lost their lives in making their
escape.

FIRE AT THE SOUTH-SEA Room—Yesterday
morning at'three o'clock, the watchman on duty
at the South-Sea House, was alarmed by the crack-
ling of wood ; on inspecting the different offices,
he at length discovered that the Treasury was on
fire. He instantly ran and awoke the head cashier,
Mr. Towson, who has apartments in the house.
On Mr. 'fowson's opening the door of the Trea-
sury, he found the whole of the floor on fire. The
engines were immediately got out, and the reser-
voir being frozen over, the ice was broken by the
watchman, in doing which he fell in up to the
neck. The flames were fortunately extinguished,
after destroying a part of the room. Had it been
one halt-hour later before the discovery was made,.
the whole of that wing of the building next
Tbreadueedle-street, must have been in flames.
Fram.—Yesterday mornibri, at an.early.honr, a
fire broke out in rite house of Mr. Wright, linen-
draper, of Foley-place, Mary-le-bone, %%bleb
threw the neighbourhood into great contusion.---
The inmates were first alarmed by the strong
smell of the fire, and, in a short time the County
Fire-office and other engines arrived on the spot
and quelled the filmes. Considerable injury was
done. to-the place and furniture.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-Yesterday, a child -of
about tour years of age, daughter to Mr. John
Fury, a coal measurer,. Shad well market, being
kit alone in a room in which there WAS a lire, her
clothes by some accident caught the blaze, and
she was taken to the London Hospital with little
copes of recovtry.