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LONDON.

TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1818.

THE FUND&

rlrt Or STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK :
itJuced7BifConsols 790—for Acc. 798
per Cents. 84-4 per Cent. 963 97
Navy Anns. 107+ 108—India Bonds 100 102 pr.
Exch. Bills 19 22 pr —Osmium OH prem.

It appears, by some remarks that fell from Mr.
EROUGRAM last night, in the House of Commons, on
;le Abuses of Public Charities, that cases have
reached the Committee of thefts from l'ublic Trusts,
rhich could never have been suspected but for the
i • anon elicited by the present investigation. The
7ohberies of this description which have been perpe.
rated in some parishes are to an amount which would
have done mote, if properly applied, than maintain
and educate the whole of their poor ! In this view
the exposure speaks a language to which many will
pay attention, whom it might otherwise be impossi-
ble to arouse to a sense of the duty they are called
on to perform, in endeavouring to put an end to
these malversations ; for, though there are many
of such obtuse and callous perceptions that
they moot be convinced they have any duty to per-
form, in preventing their neighbours from profiting
by the misapplication of the bequests of dead men,
To man can be found so blind as not to comprehend
how the feeding and educating the poor, by the pro-
since of estates left to them for the purpose, is not,
'never) respect, better than forcing him to pet his
land into his own pocket to furnish the means for
:.ch subsistence by paying a rate, imposed, in some
seances, by the very thieves who receive the rents
a the pauper's inheritance.
Every Landholder, every Parishioner in the Empire
vrcepting only the robbers who filch these funds) has
a direct interest, in detecting, exposing, and, to the
stmost of his power, putting an end to these shame-
hi'. and wicked robberies. We speak not now of the
et:ty which every individual owes to his poor neigh-
lair who has not the means of procuring redress,
std ho is perhaps even ignorant of his own wrongs,
!a we have lived too long to expect much, in public
vestions, from arguments founded on moral obli-
ptioas oaly ; but of the duty he owes to himself and
I, his own family, to take care that the funds which
imuicl be expended in maintaining and educating
poor be applied to their destined use, before he
,:ier Corporation or Parish jobbers to put their
:rids into his pockets, and make free with his pro-.
tety for these purposes.
We hope that the labours of the Commission will
mend to all the parts of the Empire. The instances
rf robbery for the act should have its proper epithet)
of public trusts which Mr. BROUGHAM has yetraamed
re all, we believe, confined to Erkgland. The fol-
-I,v,ing case belongs to another part of the United
:—A bout two hundred years ago certain
were bequeathed in •frust to a certain Corpo-
for the purpose of maintaining and educat-

4.3 many boys as the sum might be equal to.
money was vested in land, and by increase of
the v.i:ue of property of this description since that
the funds became of such magnitude that in-
maintaining 150 or 140 boys (and there are

dcrn that number) they might, if applied to no
e.ler purpose, maintain, clothe, educate, and appren-
,e su: many thousands. But mark the fact. The
igistrates of the Corporation and their successors
4 dice were appointed the Trustees ; and these men,
nme years ago, in the ckararler of Trustees of that
kad, let oat° THEMSELVI4 in the ckaracto of Ma.
;iaraa, a large part of the lands belonging to the
l'ru,t, at a low perpetual ground tent, and afterwards,
z the latter character, re-let the land athigh rent—thus
kinging into the coffers of the Corporation a large
vernal revenue which in justice they ought to have
Fpropriatecl to the original purposes of the Charity!!
xh a case as this speaks more than a volume, and
is one of such notoriety that many who may read
article will be at no loss to point out the case
aided to.

We cannot conclude our present remarks, without
*g to the great interest which Mr. Baouonase
in having these abuses sifted to the bottom. If
'tour Commissioners are to be appointed, be-
d** who are to be paid for their labours, he
be appointed one of them , and should it be
that Members er altiament shall not be
ible, that he may have tt.e power of refusal even
hat condition, persuaded t'..at even his temporary
,irenient from other duties would not be too great
sacrifice for the attainment of the object to be en-
heed to the Conunission.

The Paris Papers of Friday arrived last night, and
morning we have also received those of Satur-
Neither of them watain any thing of import-
. The Chamber of Deputies were summoned
*meet oa Saturday, when, says the Monitors, it
)4expected that Ministers would present the Act
the closing of the Session of 1817.—Five per
efts. Friday. 68 Ir. 40 c.

,Ige understand that no other cr.:. ,e existed for Mr.
.Lattnunt's quitting his situation at St. Helena, than
'!‘cl4l:gerous state of Mrs. 13ALC0MBes health at
11a aof her embarkation.

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