Star.
London, England, 1813-03-06 00:00:00

FAST DAY. •
NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE SOCIITY.
His Royal Hight*is the Duke of YORK, Patron.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Gtouctsrast, Vlett-Patron.
His Grace the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, President.
VICE-PRESIDENTS,
The Right Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lon DON.
The Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Drianase.
The Very Rev. the Dean of CANTERBURY.
The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of WINDSOR.
The Earl SPENCER.
The Earl DARTMOUTH.
The Earl RADNCR.
The Right Hon. Lord WrEEotictiar DE !Not&
The Right lion. Admiral Lot d GAaisitit.
The Hon. PHILIP PUSEY.
Sir WILLIAM PEPPERELL, Bart.
Sir THOMAS BERNARD, Bart.
The Right Hon. NICHOLAS VANSITTART.
Lieutenant-General R ',BERT MANNERS.
WILLIAM WILBERF )RC I', Esq. M.P. •
ROBERT THORNTON, E•q. M. P.
TREASURERS, •
AMBROSE MARTIN, Esq. Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury.
JOHN STEPHENSON, Esq. WilEam,streez, Chatham-place.
rrHE NAVAL and MILT I'ARY 111BLE SO-
-- CIETY beg Permission w acquaint the Clergy and ogler
Ministers, that through the liberality of the Public. by Collections
and Subscriptions made on the last Fast Day, several Thotrsand
of our fellow countrymen in arms, have been supplied with Bibles
and Testaments during the current year. They also beg leave
to state that their funds are at this time more than four hundred
.pounds in' irear,—tkat they have a lar;e number of Copies of
the Holy Scriptures still unbound,—and that they have before
them urgent applications from upwards of Fifteen Thousand of
the brave defenders of their COuntry, with Which they have as
yet been unable to comply. "I he Committee, therefore, in the
name and on the behalf of the :4ailors and Soldiers of his Ma-
jesty's Navy and Army, earnestly solicit the aid of all Clergymen
and other Ministers on the ensuing Fast Day, or at some other
early opportunity, in order, that by congregational Collections
and Benefactions, the Bibles and Testaments in hand may be
completed, and with many additional copies of Sacred Writ pre.
sewed to men who not only need, but anxiously desire, this best
of gifts, which a Christian and a .:Iritish Public are now invited
liberally to bestow. By order of the Committee,
C. M. FABIAN, Capt. R. N. Secretary, Naval Department.
J. M. CLOSE, Capt. Roy. Art. Secretary, Military Depart.
Committee room, 190, Piccadilly, London, Feb. 10, 180.

A CASE OF EXTRAoR_IIINAKY DI3TAZ33.
FOUR BLIND CHILDREN.
TO the Feelings of the generously disposed, of the
Male and Female of this Country.—lt i 3 with the firmest
reiiaace on the liberality of the Public of Great Britain, that
a Gentleman now presumes to bring forward to their notice a
ease of extreme and complicated Distress; but before he pro-
ceeds to state it, he wishes to impress upon their minds, that
this Advertisement is irsetted totally unknown to the Family
concerned, and by a Per,,on who is not in possession of pe-
cuniary resources equal to his wishes of relieving the wants of
his fellow creatures, and therefore takes this method of soli-
citing the benevolent 'regards of the Humane, in favour of a
Family of Four blind Children, the Mother having been deliver-
ed of the fourth a fortnight no. The father is a porter, whose
wages, of course, cau be but small.
The name of this unfortunate Family is Weldon, and they
lodge at No. 84, Wardou7-street, Oxford•street, where those
who may feel disposed to lend assistance to their affi cted fellow-
creatures, may learn the tr,.th of this Advertisement, and wit.
peas themselves a Case of the greatest distress. They are wor-
thy and industrious, but unfortunate people.
London, Feb. 26, 1813.