The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-19 00:00:00

FOR TEIE SUN.

Irejtimate del7glit of lionuin twure in a good

cause,: wi's their l;
piSFiOll, inasmneb as the
lie.or iv ilreeted by the consciousness of having
doile toddy, they are all ego ists. I thank
God that the Ettgli:it are sot h egotists, and I sin-
cerely trust they will never exchange their ego•
ti-ni for enlcodei,,;!, and stoical ph;losophy.
The excellent Institution to which I anode is
11 ti Addizjimal gem 10 mil' trpu,ation,
.utirce of pleasure to nun of every party, with
the e;;ceriiin of those hollow pltriots who ex-
rt:se Ihrmsrives troll) “eitrihoting to the relief of
wretched fellow-countrymen, whose misery
is pethaps partly attributable to their false and
dclosive counsel, 11 assertiog that the rich are
wills chatitahle to t! e poor, hrenuse.they desire
to reduce them lower and lower in the scale of
human society, and to make them the slaves of
their will, by administering to their wants in the
hour of wretchedness. It filly rideg ever was
',calculated to open the eyes of the public ,to the
icked acts of the Reformers, it most be the
guilty apathy with which they view the labours
of the benevolent ; or, what is still worse, their
attempt to turn aside the stream of benevolence,
hy tills-stating the motives of the donors, and en-
deavouring to.seduce the unfortunate, by highly-
coloured pictures of their sufferings, and of the
right which they have to receive those gifts, not
Bs benevolent donations, hot as a part of the gains
which the rich are said to have made by the poor.
With men of this description, there is no ar4.,,u-
-ment but the Whippirg-post ; arid truly speaking,
they deserve that sdlOtary demonstration of truth
end reason. With them, the wants of the poor
are nothing, except it be to exaggerate their
amount, and to goad the wretched to reb,llion.
They view with unmoved eye the hooSeless wan-
derer, the poor wretch shivering in the street, or
per ishiog in the church-yard ; the cry of the bare-
footed rot phan, the- agonizing groan of the dis-,
traceed mother, as she counts the hours since her
babes last tasted food, or felt the cheerio;; com-
forts of a fire ; the frozen beggar, yielding up his
last si,„th in the._ public pathway, and the poor
creature of vice, exposing her miserable carcase to
. overt shame, to procure food and lodgiug; old
age, stopt short at once by the cold wind of hea-
ven ; youth, in its earliest stage, with the blood
frozen and the limbs paralyzed ; disease, strug-
gling in vain against poverty and the elements;.--.
these ate sights, and groans, and scenes of sad-
ness, which touch them not, hey hear not the
voice ofr he mourner, and heed not the plaints o
the abandoned.

The feeling heart rejoices in the work of cha-
rity, but the he; of the party politician is cold
to the dictates of. humanity. It the
.mouths of
the hungry are filled, and the naked clothed by
the benevolent and compassionate, be can see. no-
thing in the act but the intrigue of tbe,powerftli,
to reduce the poor to subjection, or the selfish
trick of the ostentatious. Of what mould are
they who mock the divine injunctions of the So-,
viour, who enjoins us to clothe the naked and
feed the hungry ? Are they Men ? Are they Chris-
tians ? No, Sir, they are Reformers ! Yet still the
holy work of benevolence triumphs over• the nar-
row prejudices of the weak, or the wilful perverse-
ness of the wicked; and the Englisimao proudly
confesses himself an egotist in every good work
where the heart seeks the pleasing weed of grati-
fication from conscious excellence.
136 w different i 3 the conditiou rrf the Poor in
other Countries'! how coinparativelyparsinwnions
their more fortunate fellow-creatures ! In France,
that boasted Paradise of the Reformers, there is
no legal fund for the help of the unfortunate
the paltry aid authorized by the Government of
the country is sparingly dealt out by the most
bigotterl of the Clerey, and denied to all who (lit-
ter in religions feeling from the servants of that
Redeemer who was kind to all men (l)—there
the poor decrepid citizen, whose toil was unequal
to his wants whilst strength was granted to hint,
and whose old age finds hint without a friend, a
Twine, or a comforter, r't•ags on his miserable
term, happy if a loaf of bread be spared him from
the charity of the superfluous. The prosiserons
rradesnt its, with his basin-full of centimes (2)., ima-
gines be is a true Christian, it once in the week
distributes them to the needy ; and the Peer
has one coridnite mognanirne, if he has given
a Nepolenn to a public Charity (3). Such, Sir, is
name ! How different is Eneland, the Land of
!—May Charity still purtttc its noble
course, and in all good deeds may every man be,
what I would be,

AN EGOTIST.

(:) The fund provided by Government for the relief of the
Indigent, does not average more titan a loaf of bread of four

. .
poundg weekly to each person. The fund is distributed by
the-Cier7y, who refuse the least portion of it to those who do
- not attend Mass regularly. CAL,ks, tile noble Protest-
kilt of Toulouse, during an inclement winter, opened his
tv,ii.ellJu.ses for the reception of the Flun-;elems, whom he
dot h.,d and fed—Protestants and Rowan Cat bulks were

equally-welcome. Yet, in the base charge which was brought
sizainst him by the .Cierg'y for the murder of his own son,
Who was a eltrielic, he was also accused of baring sheltered
Infi,!els, and his death was decreed ht,t the Judges as much for
the on crime as fur the other. History has recorded this
feint act, and the innocence of CILAI proved tufty years after
his butchery.
(a) The hundredth part of a penny. The French trades-
man pays no pour rates, but gives about ten-pence per week
to the .poor on a filed floe. ftierne give wore, and others less.
The hue Prince dr CONDI.; endeavoured to raise a fund
fir ifie lionsclevi, and offered to contribute 20,000 francs to
Jtatt-tiee Nobility said it would 'slake the poor saucy, and
t.tLe :iway their respect fur the privile6-ed classesr•—our Re-
1w amers say cynic differently.

Engross—l have often heard Foreigners
assert, that the English are the greatest egotists
-on earth, and that their egotism is manifest even
in their amities. I begin to find there is some
truth hi this charge, and that an Englishman is
rarely -benevolent without an interested motive ;
but lam very far 'from using-the term reproach-
fully,
like our jealous'neighbours; for I never,
eNperienced more real pleasure than in reading
the names of the egotists who here snbfFcribed to
the fund for the relief of the ITonseless. All of
these persons had an interested motive, hut it was
a noble one, the approbation of the heart and 1
conscience ; 'and since self-gra,ification, the most

LONDON JoI7I;NALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

[New Times.]
'REFUGE FOIL THE HOITSELESS.

It must afford the most heartfelt patifieation to

every friend of philanthropy to hear that the cha-
ritable intentions of the Committee to afford re-
fuge for the Houseless Poor continue to receive
increa-sed support from the benevolent feelings
with which the Britisit Public is invatinbly in-
spired upon the appeals of humanity. The amount
of the subscriptions received last tr,ght exceeded
80001. The number of applicants in the course
of the d.ty were ;so that in the whole no less
than 600 of our distressed fellow-creatures have,
by a truly SatuAtiton spirit, been rescued froth the
bitterest sufferings and privations. Too much
commendation cannot be bestowed upon the judi-
cious arrangements adopted in the internal ma-
nagement of the Institution ; the order and repo- I
Laity observi-d has more the appearance of a ma-
ed system than that of an infant establishment.
The number of sick patients have increased ; we
happy to add, that bitt few are the subjects of
confirmed disease. Increased exertions, we un-
derstand, will he made to render the part devoted
to the Infirmary as complete as possible; and se-
veral windows, at present closed, will be opened,
and thereLy the advantage of an increased circu-
lation of air will be obtained. In the course of
the day a quantity of bedding, we understand,
teas received by the Committee from Ldtd
Sid-
mouth, and a supply of slop clothing was also
received front the Navy Office, accompanied with
the following letters addressed to the Lord
Mayor

Navy-OfEce, Jan. IS, I 820.

Nly Loan—ln pursuance of the directions of the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty, signified to us by Mr. Cro-
Lees Letter of the 17th instant, we have rtuch pleasure in
placing at your Lordship's disposal the several articles of slop
clothing, of which the enclosed is a list, to be applied for
the relief of any distressed Seafaring Men, and particularly
those who have served in his Majesty's Navy.

We have also desired a Gentleman from this Office to at-
tend upon your Lordship, in order that every facility may be
Li-lorded in furtherance of the object in view.
We arc, My Lords,
Your Lordship's very bumble Servants,
B. MARTIN.
H. PEAKE.

• Sir BY,",M RTINT presents his compliments to the Loan
MAYOR, and in placing at his Lordship's disposal the
Slop Clothing mentioned in the accompanying list, begs to
say, that if any larger supply can be obtained from Deptford,
&c. he will have great pleasure in informing his Lordship
of it.
Navy-otfice, 18th January, 1620.

[Morning Chronicle.

A paragraph appeared in the Paper of yesterday,
stating, that " it would he a benevolent act in
the Sub-Committee of Drury-lane Theatre, to
remit the rent of the Theatre.for the night, so
liberally destined by Mr. Elliston, to the benefit
of the ponseless Poor." it is necessary to ob-
serve, that the rent is not 'the property, or in the
power of the Sub-Committee, but received by
them, as trustees, for a vet y large description of
creditors, some of whom-are nearly as much
tressed as the very persons to whom Mr. Elliston
so humanely proposes to give this benefit. We
have no doubt, however, that the Sub-Committee
have not been backward in affording assistance
to the poor, in their individual capacities, at
their respective residences, either in the country
or in town.