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FRIDAY, APRIL 13; 1821,.

NEW CHURCHES.
ST. MARY-LA-BONNE.

WANTED to BORROW the sum of £20,000,
towards building FOUR NEW CHURCHES in this
Parish, on Bonds of £WO each, bearing Interest at Four per
Cent. payable lialf-yearly, secured by Act of Parliament, and
redeemed by a Sinking Fund provided under the said Act. The
Bonds are granted at the expeme or the Vestry.—For further
particulars apply at the Court-house, in Oxford-street.
JAMES lIUGO GREEN WELL, Vestry Clerk.

SOCIETY for the DISCHARGE and RELIEF of PERSONS
IMPRISONED for SMALL DEBTS.
Craven-street, Strand, April 4, 1821.
AT an ANNUAL GENERAL COURT, held here
tbis day, REPORTED, That the number of Debtors
Difcharged and Relieved from the undermentioned Prisons,
within the last Year, were 14-14, who had 889 Wives with 2,410
Children. The average Expense of whose Liberation (including
every incidental Expenditure relating to this Charity) appeared
to be only .t 2 ls. Sid. each.
Aylesbury 9 I v"---
Appleby 2I
Born' Compter 189 I Hereford

Greenwich

Norwich 2
Oxfoid 18
Presteign 4
Portsmouth 1
Bothwell 3
ituthin
.3
Reading 2
Sheffield 5
Southampton S
Stafford 2
Shrewsbury 1
Swansea 1
TothiLL 42
Whitecross- i .
224
Street
Whitechapel 23
Winchester 8
Wellington 3
Worcester 3
Warwick 1
Great Yarmouth 1

AT a MEETING nt the DEPUTATIONS of the
several TURNPIKE TRUSTS round the METRO-
POLIS, held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand,
on WEDNICSDAY, the 11th day of April, 1821, to take into con-
sideration the" Metropolis Turnpike Road Bill,"
• JAMES RICE WILLIAMS, Esq. in the Chair.
Present, Deputations from the following Trusts, namely,
Kilburn Trust, Uxbridge Trust,
Mary-la-Bonne Trust, Kensington Trust,
Obi-street Trust, Harrow Trust,
Highgate and Hampstead Brentford Trust,
Trust, Isleworth Mist,
Surry and Susses Trust, Stamford-Hill Trust,
New Cross Trust, City-road Trust.
Surry New Road Trust,
The following Resolutions of the 86th day of March last
were read :
REsoxvro—That the Meeting having maturely considered the
" Metropolis Road Dill," are unanimously of opinion, that the
Preamble is not founded in fact.

I3odmin 5 I Haverfordwest 12
Bedford 5 Horsham 7
Brecon 2 j Halifax 1
Beaumaris 1 1 Ilexham 1
Birmingham 1 King's Bench 154
Bath 1 Kingston- } 3
Carlisle 15 upon-Hull
Chelmsford 8 Lancaster 12
Cardiff 3 Leicester 6
Carmarthen, 3 Lemon Peveril 6
Cardigan 2 Liverpool 1
Chester 2 Knareshorough 2
Carnarvon 1 Marshalsea 210
Chesterfield 1 Maidstone 22
Durham 6 Monmouth 3
Dover 5 Morpeth 3
Devizes 3 Montgomery 2
Dorchester 2 Macclesfield 2
Derby 2 Newcastle- } 8
Exeter 14 upon-Tyne_
Fleet 153 Northampton 4
Fisherton Anger 3 Nottingham 2 68 Prisons.
BENEFACTIONS SINCE THE LAST REPORT, Viz.
The Most Noble the Marquis of Hertford, X. s. a.
Vice I'resident - . Ann. 25 0 0
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Bulkley Ann. 2 1 0
Sir 11..1. Eden, per Cox and Co. - Ann. 5 0 0
Rev. W. Winthrop - - - 2 9 0
Lientemnt-Colonel W. B. Davis - Ann. 2 2 0
Coinr,:iss!oner Creyke - - Ann. 2 2 0
Mrs. Creyke - - - Ann. 1 1 0
Lady Willoughby s - Ann. 3 3 0
11. I'. Hope, F.sq. (second Benefaction) Ann. 5 5 0
,John repys, Eaq. - - 10 0 0
Mrs. Pepys - - 1 1 •
Andre..., lierklcy Drummond, Esq. - Ann. 5 5 0
John Drummond, Esq. - - Ann. 5 5 0
Hetry Drummond, Esq. - Ann. 5 5 0
,George Milner Eaq. - - Aun. 3 5 0
Wm. Beckford, Esq. - - - 2 2 0
T. Brooks, E.q. per Treasurer - 2 2 0
Mortiot John Davison, Esq. - Ann. 5 0 0
Nicholas Brown, E.q. - .. Ann. 2 2 0
Miss Brown - Ann. 1 1 0
Edmund Woods, Esq. per Secretary Ann. 2 2 O
The lion. Miss Burrell, per 11a.nunersleys - 1 1 0
Mrs. Merry, per Hones - - - 2 0 0
Mrs. Ann Locke - - - 2 2 0
41r. Lewis Vuttiamy - - - - Ann. 1 1 0
Mrs. Hayes, per Mr. John Allen - Ann. 2 0 0
Miss Martyn - Ann. 1 1. 0
Anonymous, per Hammersleys - 1 0 0
11. I'. per ditto - - - - 2 0 0
G. C. per Secretary - - Ann. 5 5 0
J. 0. W. C. 51. per Cocks and Co. - 5 0 0
M. 11. per Messrs. Iloares - 1 0 0
Received for a Book (Neild on Prisons) - 2 2 0

Debtors 1944

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That the present system of local Trusts is, both in principle
and practice, better calculated for the maintenance of good
Roads than extensive Districts, which the state of 11103 t of the
Roads round the Metropolis at this time incontestably proves.
That the principle and provisions of the said Bill are insulting
to the understandings and degrading to the feelings of respectable
bodies of men, who give their time and service gratuitously,
who, from their local residence, are most interested in the state
of the Roads, and, from their knowledge and experience, fully
competent to their manageintat.
That though the Bill permits a few individual Trustees to be
chosen, yet, in effect, they will be mere cyphers, under the
controul of General Trustees and the Surveyor-General, who
will have the entire superintendence and management, with un-
limited power to appoint Sub-Surveyors, Inspectors, and other
Officers, to purchase Materials, to make Contracts, &c.
That it appears to this Meeting, that the evident tendency of
the Bill is, to create unnecessary Offices with Salaries and Al-
lowances, which will cause much additional expense, and entail
heavy burdens on the adjoining Parishes and on the Public.
That in the opinion of this Meeting, it is only necessary to
read the Bill to perceive that it will be weak and inefficient fur
all useful purposes.
That it substitutes a rash and hazardous experiment for a sys-
tem sanctioned by long experience, and that there is reason to
fear, instead of improving, it may ultimately be injurious to
the Roads.

That the Meeting feel it a duty which they owe to themselves
and to the Public, to make use of all lawful means to oppose the
said Sill, and do recommend it to general consideration, that,
should this Bill be passed into a Law, it may, perhaps, be fol-
lowed by aimilar. Bills throughout the Kingdom.
It was then Resolved—That the said Resolutions be reprinted.
And it was further Resolved—That this Meeting, observing
the' Metropolis Turnpike Road Bill" to hate been read a se-
cond time in the House of Commons, and referred to a Com.
niittee, it be recommended to the several Trusts, not to relax in
their exertions in opposing the said Bill. And,
That this Meeting, disclaiming all private views, and actuated
solely by motives of general good, feel it their indispensable
duty, to call the attention of all the Turnpike Trusts in the
Kin„,lom, of the adjoining Parishes, and of the Public at large,
to the principle and provisions of the said Bill, convinced from
its nature, and tendency, and mode of operation, that it would
prove extremely injurious.. •

Sigued by Order of the Meeting,
J. It. WILLIAMS, Chairman.
The Chairman having left the Chair, tke Thanks of the Meet-
ing were unanimously voted to him for his able and judicious
conduct in the Chair. JOHN BICKNELL,
Clerk to the said Deputations.

Discharged and relieved from various Ptisous
139 Debtors, for the sum of
Considered the Cases of
Of which
Rejected -
Ref‘rted for further enquiry
And considered Inadmissible