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REFUGE FOR THE HOUBELESS

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Thrice happy. hours! short *merit stays
With you I leog'd to Sy sway,.
Swift as the dove—but iong'd is Vela,
I ne'er shall taste your sweets again
Ask ye Übe most of ill my grid? .
Haar-41ionstrion cannot give relief
Those that I lovl are torn from me,
And in the Was where I shall be I
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Yesterday the Members of the House Cc
appointed by the General Committee, for the mike,
of the Houseless Poor, waited upon theGoveructif
of the London Workhouse, for the purpose of makiitg
propositions to them, from which great advantage it
expected to the destitute during this winter.
Amongst the Governors whe attended at the Work-.
house to receive the proposition of the Deputation
from. the Committee of the Houseless Poor, were—
The Loan MAYOR, who took the Chair, Mr. Alder-
man WOOD Mn VVRIGHT, Mr. DOLLY, Mr. Goss,
and Mr.-PLtrica. Among the Deputation were Mr.
BODKIN and Mr. Rios.
Mr. HICK stated, that he waited upon the Gover-
nors in the name of the General Committee, to re-
quest that they "mold permit so much of the Lon.'
don Workhouse as could be spared to be appropri-
ated to the use of the indigent and unprotected, with
whom the streets, in this severe season, began to
abound. jle-reprelented, that such an application
of the Workhouse wat compatible with the Charter,
and said, that the expense arising from dilapida-
tionsi &c. would be defrayed by the Committee for
the Houseless Poor. The accommochttion would be
required for three months. The necessity was ex-
ceedingly pressing. and Mr. Hick hoped the Gover-
nors would not part withotit coming to a determina-
tion to co-operate so far with the Committee, who
Lad done so much service to the community last year
by the liberal course they had pursued. Mr. Hick
took the opportunity to state, that if by the interfe-
rence of those around him a considerable, sum were
raised to accomplish the desirable object of clearing
the streets of beggars during the severe selson, an
Establishment might rise, and suddenly too, which
would be likely to arrive at the character which
Christ's Hospital had attained amongst the noble in-
st,ttitions of the country.
TILe LORD MAYOR approved the suggestion of the
Committee, and pointed out various untenanted parts
of :he Workhouse, in which the unfortunate could
be placed, without the slOitest prejudice to the pre-
sent system upon which the Establishment was con-
dez..te.d. He was of opinion that the sum of I:20,000
or 123,000, a sum easily raised in London upon so
cinching an emergency, would be of incalculable
sezrice (if applied judiciously) in ameliorating the
condition of the poor generally throughout the coun-
try. Ile considered that one of the greatest causes
of. vagrancy was want of work, for the purpose of-
preventing which complaint he should advise the
adoption of a plat. similar to that upon which an old
friend of his, Mr. Jackson, one of the Overseers of
the Parish_ of St. Catherine Cree, had acted. He
would provide work, whether that work proved to
be .matter of pecuniary advantage or not, and the
'host of va3rants who hated work would soon clisap•
pear, as they ha,: done in the case of his friend,
when they found that without working for it they
tould get nothing to eat. The case to which his
Lordship alluded was as follows :—Mr. Jackson was
considerably annoyed, while he was Overseer, by so.
lit.itations from great hulking fellows of the Parish,
who always said they could get no work. Well,
my poor men,' he at length said to some of them,
I'll see and get you a little work." He then took
them to tl)e church-yard, and ordered them to pick
-up all the small loose stones that lay about, and
throw them into a corner. In a few hours all but
one got tired and skulked off. He who remained
calculatel upon the contrast between his conduct and
that of those who had departed, and he actually staid
fur two or three days, in which time, with very mo-
derate exertion, which greatly in. his strength,
lie collected all the small stones into a corner: As
won as he had done so, he went off to Mr. Jackson,
who had paid him most cheerfully, and said he was
once mote at a loss for work. " Say you so, my poor
fellow," said Mr. Jackson,. " then I must see what 1
can do for you. Let me Aee—there is a sack— fill
that with stones from the corner, and carry them to
Bettinattreen, and make haste back for another
sacir." The vagrant proceeded upon his new em-
ployment with a very ill trice ; as soon as he got to
Wintecha.pel Church, he shot the contents of his sack
into the Church-yard, and swearing that he would
never, as long as he lived, go into a church-yard,
again, walked off with the sack, and never was seen
by Mr. Jackson more: The practice has been found
an infallible cure for vagrancy in the parish cf St.
Catherine Cree. The celebrated Cooke, the miser,
of Pentonville, knew the lazy disposition of the beg-
gars well, and drew much benefit from the know-
ledge.
When any beggarman came to his gate, and
Complained of want of work, Cooke set him to dig
the garden, but took care to watch him from a win-
dow, lest he should run off with the spade. After
an hour or two of labour, the workman stuck the
spade in the earth, and sneaked off. His place was
soon supplied by another, who had very little incli-
nation to labour, and thus Cooke managed to have
his garden dug
_without Ling at a farthing expense.
Alderman WOOD strongly recommended to his
brother Governors the'gropriety of acquiescing in the
proposition of the Committee, after which the Trea-
surer (Sir W.„Rawlins) having made no decided eb-
replied to in the affirms.jcction, the application was
tire, and leave was given to appoint a Committee to,
model the Workhouse, and put it in a proper state
for the reception of betireen two and 300 poor.
The Committee are to apply for similar aceommo.
illaCe for the poor at tke Eastand Wait sods of the

She.lnhabitants
13t. Leonard's, fihoreditch, , held in, the .
Church, toconsiderolts the,Reritsisitilm to the Church,
wardens stated, theeproPriety o(, Wining a Declara-
tion- expressive of their sentiment'• at the present
tdarming crisis; and also to take into consideration
e necessity of presenting a lord ond dutiful Ad-
-dress to his ktAJZSIIfp: and to adqpt such other mea-
sures as should be deemed essential to give publicity
to their principles of attachment to-the Constitution,
as by law establisheas._
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The Chair hsvt7.-asthilsontilleken by Mr. PEARCE, the
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Junior Church .. ,
Mr. SHARP came forward to move the Resolutions
on which the Address was founded. They had
Assembled, he said, to discuss the propriety of pres
renting a loyal and dutiful Address testheir Suve-
Ireign, and in so doing,' to rescue themselves froni
the unjustifiable aspersions which were indirectly
cast upon them in the mock Ultra-loyal Address;
which had been clandestinely got up, and which was
intended to be palmed upon the Sovereign as an Ad-
dress expressing the sentiments of their large and
populous parish. • The persons who had got up that
Address were 'evidently actuated by a desire to des
ceive the Sovereign, and to disguise the state of
public affairs. These, however, were not times to
trifle; such was the alarming condition to which a
longicourse of wicked and unconstitutional measures
hadireduced this country, that no reflecting man
coalkcontemplate it without horror, and without
feelia that the present system of Government pre-
sentedeothing but a scene of wretchedness, devasta-
tion, at al ruin. Was it not an insult to the Sovereign
to address him in the language of the fictitious Ad-
dress, at. a time when disgust and indignation at the
conduct 4f Ministers pervaded the whole country,
and when our dungeons were crowded with the vic-
tims of political vengeance—with men sacrificed to
the arbitrary power of a selfish and detestable fac-
tion ? Such was the deplorable state of public
affairs, that he did not think them capable of being
ameliorated by a change of Ministers, without an
entire change of measures. He concluded by moving
the first ftesolution.
Mr. SLACKIIHRNE seconded the Resolution. He
disclaimed all intention of interfering with the right
of private judgment, and he thought the conduct of
the persons who had signed the fictitious Address,
was only blameable in so far as they assumed a
character which did not belong to them. They had
a right to express their opinions, Whatever those opi-
nions might be, but they had no tight to call their
Address the Address of the Inhabitants of the Parish
of St. Leonard's. At the head of the signatures ap-
peared the names of the Curate of the Parish, one of
the Churchwardens, and four Overseers ; and the
official desigirarions of these persons were carefully
annexed to their names, that the Address might ap-
pear to be that of the Inhabitants of the Parish, le-
gally assembled in Vestry. He commented with
much severity upon the comiliet of Clergymen who,
came forward to take the lead in politics. It was
impossible that parochial Clergymen could be inde-1
pendent men. They must of necessity be subservient
to the ruling powers; and the late Act of Parliament,
which made them removable at the pleasure of. the
Bishop of the I)iucese, made them, if possible, still
more dependent. The Clergy had on all occasions
bees hostile to the liberties of the People, and their
'subserviency in these days fell very little short of
that of the Bishop, who, being asked by James the
First whether he could tax l'se People without an
Act of Parliament ? replied, " Most certainly, my
liege ; for we are but the breath of your nostrils."—
With respect to the mock Address, it was really of
that milk and water description, that though there
was little.to object to, there was .at the same titre
nothing tc. approve, It complained of abounding in
sedition and blaiphemy, evils which no doubt to a
certain extent existed, but which would have long
since ceased to exist, if the laws had been properly
enforced against them. The people of England were
dissatisfied with the measures of Ministers, and that
dissatisfaction had been falsely termed disloyalty.—
The mock Address was an attempt to bolster up an
Administration which had iendered itself contemp-
tible, to deceive the, King, and at the same time to
procure certain benefits to the persons who had been
most active in promoting it. The present Meeting
was indispensably necessary to rescue this large and
populous Parish from the implied imputation, that
they were not ready to agree to a loyal and dutiful
Address to the Sovereign.
Mr. LAWRINCE supported the next Resolution. Xt
was evident that the persons who got up the ficti-
tious Address were afraid or ashamed to meet thi*
,fellow-parishioners. They felt that the scntimen
which they expressed.were not the sentiments of AM
great body of the Parish, and they were obliged,
therefore, to meet in holes and corners. The Clergy'
had in this, as in other parishes, shown great acts,.
vity in promoting clandestine Addresses. That body I
of men had always been most zealous in promoting 1
every measure which was calculated to destroy the
happiness and abridge the,liberties of the. Peoples
Whether they retired to
,holes and corners to get upli
fictitious Addresses, or reared their mitred beads its-
Parliament, their conduct was equally marked by'
cringing _subserviency and political prostration.—
Everything, in short, characterised theta but the re-
ligion they professed—{Applouse). How was it pos-1
sible that the people of this country_ could look up
Co the hierarchy with respect, when it had beta de-1
dared by one of the heads of the Church that the
King could do no wrong—even in a moral sense,'
thus distorting a were political maxim, obnoxious
and inconsissent perhaps even in its teclmical apish,
cation, for the p _of paying. an obsequious hos;
mage to power Pul*.W: interference of the Clergy in
the ease of the Queen had done MO,' • to destroy cc,'
I thitCleSiaStipeutdropkincalthirerecgolleFareadtrye thastfoyrqcott:ttliiies,giugtile; winbichcaruhadt
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diegustotnd he believed that
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foe ascrosOng the 304eir.ai gumless if-dtKleto

salting, , the ,
King lost America. The fate of the unfortnitate
Louis the Sixteenth might be traced to the same
rause. After dwelling ,at same length on the state
of the-public affairs, he said, that the People of Eng-
land were now-hy far too. enlightened to' be deceived
by the arts of power, and too firm to be intimidated
by its threats. 'The People wished for a. reform of
abuses ; they.wished, for civil and. religioni liberty,
for the re9levelpf great publicAsurthens: these were
their just, rational, and Constitutional objects, and
they would persevere until these objects were attained.
The Resolution was put and carried unanimously.
Mr. JAconsos moved the next Resolution. He
said, that Ministers had done everything to oppose
the wishes of the People ; the whole- country called
for Reform ; Ministers and the House of Commons,
resisted that call ; he hoped they would yet yield to
-the voice of the nation, lest the thing should be car-
ried by more violent means.
This Resolution having bee& also agreed to,
An Address to the King was moved, and carried..
Mr. SHARP next rose, and said, that some persons
having agreed to an 4ddress, which they very im-
properly called an Address.from the Parish of St.
Leonard's, Sjtoreditch, it was right for the inhabit-
ants, assembled, as they were, in Public Vestry, to
disclaim in the most marked manner a document,
to which they were most impudently made parties,
without their knowledge—a document too, which
they ?buld not-approve of; he therefore shoved, that
the " Ultra Address" sJsould be excluded front the
1 Vestry Room, where it had been left for, signatures.
After some conversation, this Resolution was
agreed to, and the Meeting adjoursied.

The Duke and Duchess of RICHMOND are enter-
taining a large party of fashionables these holidays,
at their seat, -Malcolm, Sussex.
At the last audit of .1. EVARSFIELD, Esq. at Cat-
field, Sussex, a reduction of 20 per cent. was tot
only made on reat then clue, but .the same amount
was taken off from the previous half-year's rent,
already paid, from his Gensing estates.
Trentham Hall, in Staffmdshire, the superb resi-
dence of the House of GOWER, is a source of bounti-
ful dispensation at this inclement season. The poor
have received ample relief.
Tottenham Park is among the gayest of the gay.
The Earl of AYLESBURY gratifies all around him.

On Christmas-day, two bullocks, divided into pro-
portions equal to the magnitude of eadh respective
family, with a corresponding quantity of bread, were
given to the poor resident on the large estate of Sir
)OUN AUBREY, Bart. of Dorton House, Bucks; and,
on the 26th, the whole of the children of the Na-
tional School, at Brill, in the same County, to the
number of nearly SOO (founded by the worthy Ba-
ronet) were liberally supplied by the same humane
hand with a comfortable hot dinner of roast beef
and pudding.

On Thursday the 21st instant, the Earl of Lows-1
DALE ordered to be distributed to the poor of the
neighbourhood of Lowther Castle upwards of 1,400
pounds- weight of prime beef, together with a great
quantity of bbthkets and wearing apparel. The poor
of Lowther are regularly supplied with soup from the
Castle, twice a week, throughout the winter.

A Life-boat, towards the building of which the
Committee at Lloyd's have subscribed LIO, is shortly'
to be stationed near the mouth of the River Coln;
on the coast of Essex.

The celebrated French chyrnist, M.G.ty LuskAc,
is stated to have made a very-valuable discovery of
a means to. render the most inflammable substances
ccimbustible without flame and without fire. These'
bodies are consumed without properly catching
or, in other words, without feeding or propagating
the fird. Muslin, prepared after the process of the
inventor, has been exposed to the flames, and was
consumed without proddcing even a spark. What
M. GAY Lusssc's process may be we know not ; butt
it bas long been known that hp steeping cloth in
alnm..it would be made to Mir!. t without flame.
About five o'clock on Thursday evening, a fire
,broke out in Mr. Rhodes's sugar-house, in ['taper's-
row, Whiiechapel. It was, fortunately, confined t.
the spot where it originated, and did ne materiel
damage to the extensive premises.
Thursday evening, between five and six o'clock,. •
sts Messrs. KNATT and BARCLAY, of Oakley-street,
were passing along ..Gun-street, St. George's-fieldst
they were knocked down and cruelly treated br a
, of Attains, who robbed them of property le
le amount. .
Dow-sviarr.—Yesterdar, a Gentleman came to
the Office and asked Sir R. Betas whether, in case
he was attacked in,the street, or any other place, by
thieves, he would be justified in using fire-arms, or
any other weapons, to repel such an attack? tuned"
whether, if he inflicted a mortal wound, he would
be liable to any punishment ? Sir R. BAKER said,
'that a man would undoubtedly be justified in defend
ing himself against an attack of that kind with wort
,weapons he might happen to hive about him. The
applicant said, that, in the present. state of the Me
tropolis, it was highly important that persons shotdd
know how far the liw would permit there to go:*
defending themielves from the attacks •of law •
bands of ruffians which.were now become so cot*
mon. He wished to know whether the Magistsasa
could not grant a licence to tarry fire.arnis in these
tithes of danger? and was replied to in the ntative:
• 14417011•GAanzw—Yestierday,,Morris Foley was
cliarged with violating the person.of Eleanor Xing.•
The Lady swore to.the perpetration of the offence
but the room being tripfrbedded, other persons who
slept in it deposed ;hit no riolence was °firedog.,
they Elitist bare heard. it; -The defence wasi,:that
after quitting her ladyship, -he-had refused to marry
her, 4sihich had roused her vaigeenee.- As she elieeeo
hOnner• to swear positively. to: tiro aseudt, he Was
to find beil. .

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