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Non est vivere /nacre vita.—Afawnat..
" Life is only Life, when blest with Health."
haest system of Ethics is to confine within
due bounds, and thus to regulate the Pawians ; unrestrained
and insubordinate they impetuously destroy those barriers which
Religion and hlorality have made sacred; to curb but not anni-
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Every disorganization of the human frame requires great me-
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those entnplaints generated by imprudence, and the ebullition of
the passions at an uugmerded moment. " The strength of a na-
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Ft Wee: on the daily sacrifice to the ignorance of unfeeling eznpyri-
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various diseases of Debility. The unwary victim of solitary vice,
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animation, by remedies which have long answered the sanguine

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ON THE SUPPRESSION OF MENDICITY.

(The following excellent Letter, proposing the immediate forma-
slot of a Corporation for the Employment a Beggars and the
. Unemployed Poor, upon principles at ouce matt 111.d.bie and
prseticable, certain arguments so Irrefragable andsentimettu
so just, that we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of calling
the most serious and prompt emotion to the subject.]
SUPPRESSION OF MENI)ICITY.
to SUP ZOSAL 111ZOILIMBS DUZZ Or YORK,
Tllll DIM Or 1i0A12111313211
11111311111, AND SIMI
surtaxes tom or XVIDSCITT.

or TUX SOCISTY r 4/, 214

Magri! pkasegevr Royal ifienkeu,
My .rds, Ladks, and Gaglemen.
having studiously endeirroured.both by my writings and per-
sonal exet dons, to promote and support the Society established
under your patronage ; and feeling a due respect and deference
towards those Gentleme,t with whom I have had the honour of
acting, I hope that the expression of an ardent desire to sot that
Society rendered efficient, and its operations commensurate with
this great undertaking, will be pardoned by those whose rank
and iiinuer.ce enable them to carry into execution those plans
which I can only contemplate and hope to ere acted upon. 1 am
the more desirous of this success, because I consider the sup-
pression of mendicity as a grand step towards the destruction Of
the monster Pauperism, against whose baneful influence on the
morals of the Poor, and the public welfare, I have Nvul,-cl de-
ter.nined war.
Hut before I proceed to offer remarks arising from the past
year of experience,. gratitude calls upon me to express the high
sense ' . . . .

rr, To Marry Re Not if, Merry. T, 3 'oh. Ill,: •„• Fre' the general accommodation wee do not lion!! ourselves _ _, I eaiurtain Of your Royal Highness's gracious eondescen-
;lite IS...Ault r and Martied Min, ii.... - gestated reriods of practice, but may be consulted at all reason-- I don in patronizing inyhemble endeavours on various occasions,
1 'ie I '::::stalas. Mclver an m d roreet Tye, o.: able bourt—Country Patients are reciested to describe minutely ant! to acknowledge the encouragement I have received from the
•'-''. F I:moaosais. liy A. Mereet, M.D. F.P.S. 1 their stml,torns flocs when medielre, with advice, will be imam. !Toile, by the 4s-ours:tie reception given to the Treatise I had
t ' `.'l Li :., IT44pital, !cc. &c. &c. nit. S ~....,...4 Ediii.i.c. &sully btrestarded to any part of the kingdunt—A Bank-nom is lately the honour of dedicating to your Royal Ili7hness, entitled
..--.. lb.:. A Suva iu 3 volt ii:mol I'y Mis:: Patten • expected w accompany the case. , ruferfros: its arils and burdens reduced, by caning into action
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•. •:-..: Ir.L..r himried. s• GOSS and Co. M. R. C. Surges/saw .the *boon of the Poor, and by the useful direction of Charity."
sSo ; i
- -* veL Second Edition, 3 vets. ITnan. .13, Bougolie-agreet, Flett-eirott, London. , I Un::,s I have mistaken the promise made by the Society, it
T?4l-.estraviaim,ts.kibiting t'e nature of Vest dust published, it stands riveted to tbe-publie, that if they will refrain from giving
•.; °1.00: together with the Pr...tsoll 11h•.• Tge yen it LIFE, a natailiar -Contmentery 430'.1W IMMO ',ldanory, lir:slurs, said refer them, by 'flelgets, to the Moo, in
t ...3 i-a he.atAies. Inc James Mee FLA% V.....0e5.—f1y LOSS and Co.—To be had at 11.5.•te, Tate lneeei Bed tine:-seluart, the Society will duly investigate each case;
-.: i:t ...r.I tc the late Lail of Liveir4.l. . tcr-ruw i and of ali:liookstre....s, price. 3s .lead Ittitgbandon tin 111tgrse, until tie necessity of rutvngng -1.,

'the second class includes the cripples, and all those mutilated
and disgusting ohjec:s, V'hosc removal is loudly r. lied for by a
due regard to decency, and to the happiness of private life: L. r
1 regret to say, that too many instat'.ee• have crane to my :now-
ledg. of the production of deforrnit? Gra these exposures, arid
the presumptuous inipartunilies of tl..se Ilegt,ars. E:pericLe•
has fully proved the r:itictsiiice or parishes to alaiptain these oh-
izets when referred to them; but when the Soctety i 3 enabl• d
distinctly to chew that its cyerations have greatiy relieved :be
parishes of the 111e•ropolis from the casual burden of the Mite,
the parishes may justly be called upon and required to maLats.in
the impotent.
The third class comprehends all those who are able, or pal'y
able, to earn their own support ; but who, from their own in:-
prudence, unavoidable distress, the waist of work, or their ina-
bility to obtain adequate j;arochial relief, resort to begging fee
their support.
Expegience declares this to be by far the most numerous Bats;
out of the first thousand individuals examined at the Office, .:(44
declared tie want of employineut to be the cause of their beg-
ging ; and numbers of chore daily examined readily d••clare their
ability to earn their o-,in support,, and only ask the means of
doing..

Pe-obbly the most strenu les ad ?mates for the suppressien cf
Betimes by the arm of the law will admit, that atrongst these
thce e ate many who are.objects of encouragement ani. assistance
rather than of punishment; but should they sondem) ._hem
toe.ther as idle and worthless, surely the application el th..t
touchstone, work, wor.id be nu :e likely to re el.int th us
than confinement in it.pfiwri, where they would, in all pre.a..
Laity, be compelled to ass.ciate with chasacters far more de-
praved than themselves. Those Gentlemen with whom I Lye
bad the-honour of acting from the first day of our
probably recollect, that the foundation-stone upon which I
built my hopes of success in this undertaking has always been
employment. The utter Inability of many of the Parishes to
maintain in idleness, or to fit.d employment fur all these who
have claims Upon them must be apparent ; and it affords me Cu
small consolation to find, that experience is fast pointing out the
necessity of an intermediate power to establah emplOyment for
Ileggars and the unemployed Poor. It appears that the Society
for the Suppression of Mendicity cannot erect this desirable-ob-
ject wirbout an Act of Parliament, to make it a bud, politic aud
corporate in law ; and as an application to the I.egisl.tere mizht
reasonably be answered by asling, whether the laws now in
being had been tried and found int rectual? such a pro:ft.:Mg
roes not appear to be advisable. I have therefeee the honour of
proposing the immediate formation of a Corporation for the Em-
ployment of Beggars and the unemployed Poor, in the Count: s
of Mitidltsex and Surrey, and the Liberty of Westminster, un-
der the provisions of an existing Act passed the 13th and 30th
of Charles 11. which provisions of the mid Act will he funnel .a
the Treatise on Pauperimei with various uhsersati.:r.s upon ti.is
subject. With the view of renderi• g the Said
dent, I have the honour to submit the following points to the
consideration of the Public:

Prop .sed, That the sail Co rporatian or Corporations be Wa-
hl:shed iu uniou with the Society fur the Supavessio t of Mendi-
cisy, so that the Beggars and unemployed Poor feferred by the
public to the said Society. may, after due examination and ailtudit-
mein of their case, be taken charge of by the said Ccrporatioa
and put to work, according to the provisions of the said Act.
That such Noblemen and Gentlemen be requested to accept the
offices of Presidmt, Deputy President, Treasurer, and Assist; VI:,
as may be deemed most likely to become effici :It Members.
That the said Corporation or Corporations be support, d by vo-
luntary contributions, and the bequest or giant of lands, instead
of by rates levied or. the parishes, as directed and authorised by
the Act. Thus may the evils ar.sl evasions of duty, caused by
locality of burden. and the pressure on parishes he avoided, and
an example established to prove, that the most valuable direciiis
which can be given to charity is, to call into action the labours
of the poor.
Thus also may a still more valuable example be estabilsheek
and the axe laid to the root of the evils of Pauperism ; fo7 snider
such patronage and support, in conjunction with the buundco
duty of Parish Offlzers to place out the chi:dren cf the Poor
such estaidi,hasents may be formed, that when Charity has Sail
a wholesome foundation by alnca/ion, they may be rescued
from the contam.nation of the workhouse, and that road to
death, the streets of the metropolis ; and so trained to labour as
to rise above the pestilence of Pauperism, and become usefal
servants and member,' of society at home, or able euhivators cf
other lands should emigration become necessary.
As a source of labour least Itible to interfere with she in-
dustry of others, it is proposed to eircct the work of Beggars
and the unemployed Your, chiody to the compounding
preparing various cubstaoces as 111;a101 e, and to the cultivation
of the earth by manual labour. It is here to be observed, that
although such employment must not be expected to produce ogrly
returns or'profits, yet the capital employed will be ultimately re-
paid to the community, by the hicrease of produ..e, and the means
of fo.taizatioli and re•production.
Having thus submitted these designs to the consideration of
the I b.tyt leave to add, that my best endeavours tu'inu-ry
the same ihtu eliicient operation are at the command ache
mnnity ; and that, when called upon, I shall be happy to sabotit
to consideration thil-cletail plans, nut formed use theoretical opia
nions, and delusive spec:stations, contradicted by experieoce,
but taking nature fur their guide in operations on the minds cf
the Poor, and the measure of practical facts in calsaLiting the
produce of labour.
When it is duly considered that a grievcos liability to burden
is thrown upon many of the Rilis:teil of Westmir..ter a..t: the
Metropolis by the influx of Beggars, from the euorts:ous sums
of money indiscriminately given to Ceara. it will not be thot skt
too much to upou the affluent voluntarily to take part a
Cthe idle impostor may
becite presuming cripple
those burdens from the shookkvs of the iodostrious inhabitants,
on Whom the pressepressurefalls with severir ; of weiGht.
considered,ownmpoptrh.st,
removed flOe. the streets, the becessitoes relieved by employ-
uneot, and the rising generation rescued from the destructive in-
tsnitlayt, litcvalua tor a la
earn dulyhis
due„,, of pauperism, by the Lostfal direction of (Amity ; surely
a discerning public will tier be a, sal,:(1 to in vain. But by
ceasing to give money indiettiminare,y rn Emgars, ..ntl by plac-
ing their bounty at the comosaod cf those wboauty devote Hair
time to gm. g it a uselli direction, they vtojy promese a spy*
Which acid ultimate+, prove most gratifying to their owo feel-
inga, by the dectssase of evil, aid the Komodo° of the rmiss
8°"• d—l have the honour to rill in, yo•ir (levet, Servant
SW, C0n..1411L H 41410 );AFACI. CAS:T:nxi,

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