Star.
London, England, 1818-07-09 00:00:00

which
_to him akiared as the most important

those Charities, *Was the means of education which
they afforded to those who had no other means of ac-
qniring it. Upon this subject of general education,
the:e was at present, he was. happy to say, almog
but one opinion. The question was, not whether the
children of the poor should receive the benefits of
education, but how the means of bestowing it might
lac best acquired ?—(hear, kecr)—These child:en, it
was true, wete. educated in a particular religion, but
it was t'ie religion of their parents; and, as he had
oe.en be or.e sail, upon occasions similar to the pre-
sent, as the law of the land prevented a Ca:ll°lk
from giving instruction to any but in their own com-
munion, it was but just that they should be encou-
raged in so giving it. Ills Royal Highness then en-
Med into a warm and eloquent description of the
happy results which might be anticipated from a ge.
*heal dissemination of the principles of morality and
religion; and conclodedumidst loud cheers by giving
the toast as above. It was received in the most en.
thasiastie manner, and drank with three times three.
The.&ewards then withdrew in order to accom-
pany the p:ecession of the children into the room.
This consisted of about one hundred fine little girls,
dad in the costume of the Institution, whose appear
mice and demeanour clearly indicated the great ale,
tention which had been paid to them in every respect.)
About .50 boys belonging to the day-school followed
in, regular order. As soon as the little groupe had
taken their places,
C. Bertea, Esq. rose, and addressed the Meeting
in nearly the following words Gentlemen, after ,
the eloquent address which you have just heard from
year illustrious President, in behalf of charity in
general, and of these Es:a; lishments in particular,
I feel it unnecessary to trespass on your time at any
length. Indeed any thing which I can say must fall
short of what you have heard from the Royal Duke,
who has on this occasion, as upon every other, proved
himself not less by actions than by wont., the friend
of every institution which has for its object the im-
provement of his fellow. inen•—(Loud applause)—.
Most fortunate, indeed, it would have o for these
poor, but virtuous and happy little girls, if, instead
of having their cause entrusted, as it now is, to my
feeble exertions, I could have tal:ca you all to the
Institution which you are this day solicited to pa-
troaize, and placed it and its inmates under your own
eyes. hi my way to it, I should have led you through
those greets and alleys, in which, if this refuge had
not been found for them, most of the little girls whom
you now see before you, would in all probability
have been at this moment. I should have desired
you to observe the wretched girls with veli:Ji these
art filled, their bold and livid looks, their raga, their
filth, their idleness, their lawlessness, their profana-
tions of the name of Goo, their ribaldry, their ge-
neral contamination, and their despair: hopeless of
comfort in this 14—heedless of their lot in the next
—and, haviftg placed fully before you these disgust
ing, I may try, these terrible little girls, I should
have • exclaimed-4s this shaman? dear tenerable
woman 1 designed by her native softness and gentle-
ness tia'endear ctornestiell?fe 'to irlais, to make virtue
lovely, to instil its first lessons, to he the soother of
cave; the coMptiSer-of ftrifo:—ii. this Worrini?-•—Tuin-
ing from this aillietins''scene; I' sbotild: have carried
yon on with the Co Sioniers'Tovrn. 'NO abetter would
the door of the Institution open, than you would see
peke, serenity, decency, ludas:err, tmd piety present
themselves before you: ihoitld' call • upon $-Crn to
contemplate with your own eyes the little creatures
before you, and tics, to whom, ender Gov, they
c :ve their all. I should then quegloo 'them on their
employments. You would find, that tea sun rises or
se& that does not htar a prayer, short it is true, but'
slikist,ieverently said, and moat deeply felt, by these
etlastu ; and' that, in their prayers, their betiefa6
tors are never, omitted. Thus the day of these chil-
&tit isegiiistiiiit it closes. The whole of it is spent
in the tasks and toils which ought in every school to
%toile &mpl4yment of girls, who are to get a liven-
heitid by bald 'labour, in the humble walks of life.
At* intervila they are taught to read well to write
antiad sum np small numbers. But is their
re'''-ihtt they are completily awl ably itsitrueted.