The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-30 00:00:00

LONDON POLICE REPORT

THAMES POLICE-OFFICE, TUESDAY.-Mr. Walton, the vestry-
clerk of St. John's, Wapping, applied to Mr. Ballantine and
Mr. Combe for their advice respecting the disposal of the' five
unfortuuate emigrants, a portion of the survivors of the passen-
gers who went out in the Henry Hull, from Liverpool, for the
purpose of proceeding to America, which ship foundered at sea,
the passengers, with the exception of three who perished on
board, having been previously taken on hoard the Sarah, an
American ship, which fell in with them. It will be recollected
that several of the unfortunate emigrants perished for want of
food and water on board the Sarah, which had not sufficient pro
visions or accommodation on board for the poor creatures, and-
that some of them were afterwards taken on board the General
Hewitt, which brought them to this country, and that five of
them were landed at Blackwell in a deplorable state of destitu-
tion; they applied to Mr. Brotterip for some relief on Friday
last, who was unable to do anything more than give them a
shilling each frnm the poor-box, and recommendiug their un-
fortunate situation to the attention of the humane.
Mr. Walton said, that in compliance with the recommenda-
tion of Mr. Broderip, the poor creatures had since been shel-
tered and fed in the poorhouse. They belonged to Ireland and
Scotland, and he wished to pass them to the places of their legal
settlement, but. they were anxious to proceed to Liverpool,
where they expected to obtain back the passage-money, 1:6 each,
which they had paid to the agent, on the ground that the ship
was lost by the negligence of the captain and crew, who, with-
the exception of the mate, were in a constant state of intoxica-
tion.

Mr. Ballantine itAras.lighlv creditable to the parish,
that without waiting to ascertain whether the law provided a
remedy or not, they had pieserved the poor men from the hor-
rors of starvation—in fact, they haul no right to starve here,—
and provided for them as they had done. He was happy to sta'e,
that some benevolent individuals had, in consequence of reading
un account of the application of the emigrauti. in the Tines
nawsplper, forwarded £lO to Mr. Broderip for their relief. . A
check for £5 was forwarded to his colleague on Monday by a
benevolent nobleman, and a bank-note for the same sum had
been sent by a lady unknown, who had often done good by
stealth, and would blush to find it fame. Another sum of 10s.
had also been left at the office for the emigrants.
Mr. Walton said if it met with the approbation of the bench
he would procure the emigrants a passage to Liverpool in the
first ship that left for that place, and pay the men the difference,
through an agent at Liverpool, on their arrival there. •
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. (3onibe said they had no objection to
the proposition, and the money was paid over to Mr. Walton
fur the purposes mentioned. _

EFFECTS OF EDUCATING PROTESTANT
CHILDREN IN CONVENTS.

A, little more than two years ago a gentleman, who resides
in London, and is connected with the corporation, sent his
daughters, seven in number, to be educated in one of the con-
vents at Boulogne. Being a member ()title Church of England
he felt naturally anxious that his children should nut .be inter-
l'ered with in matters of religion, and accordingly made some
Inquiry upon the subject. when he was told by the proprietors
that nothing whatever should be done to induce them to em-
brace any other faith than that in the principles of which they
;lad been brotiolit tip; that no means whatever should he adopted
to mean them id the slightest degree front the observance of the
protestant institutions, it Mug the invariable practice of those
who superintend the establishment never to meddle with the
religious persuasion of those children who were submitted to
their care. During the last summer the
.youngest girl, an in-
teresting child about ten veers of age, died after a very short
;flue's of consumption. The circumstance was made '
known
her father by the stiperintedent of the convent, r..to column-
.:; 2....ted to him at the same time the extraordinary fact that she
hail died in the catholi,.: faith, and had been buried in the con•
vent according to the forme of that. church. • The father on re-
ceiving this intelligence lost nn time in transmitting a letter to.
the British consul, beng nimble at that period to leave London,
requesting that the remains "f his child might be removed from
the convent, and interred in the pri4estaut burial-ground, in

accordance with the protestant forms, and he added that he
would himself shortly_go.over to ascertain that his wishes Were
carried iuto effect. He also wrote to his daughters, telling
them that he could not permit them to remain in the establish-
ment any longer, and desiring them to be in readiness to take
their departure.
_ _ .

About ten days after the decease of his youngest daughter he
arrived at Boulogne, and learned that her remains had been
laid in a protestant grave; and, as the last act of parental affec-
tion, he caused a tombstone to be raised to mark the spot where
her ashes lav, and then prepared to return home with his other
children." 'three of the eider girls were subsequently placed in
respectable families in England, and .the mind of the father was
once more tranquil respecting them, feeling satisfied that the
way in which they had been educated in their earlier years was
a sufficient guarantee to him that they were too firmly esta-
blished in the doctrines and principles of the protestant church
to be drawn away by the ceremonies of that which it professed
to reform altogether, however fascinating and imposing those
ceremonies might be. In a very short time, however, to his
great 'astonishment and regret, he received a letter front his
eldest daughter, an accomplished lady, twenty-six years of age,.
dated from Dover, and stating that she had left the family in
which her father had placed her, and was already on her way
to Boulogne, for the purpose of takinc, the veil iu the convent
which she had been recently obligated to quit, having resolved
for some time past to adopt that course as a member of the
Roman Catholic chart:o! rite unhappy father's great object
now is to prevent what he colikiders to be a spiritualcontamina-
lion from extending to his othet daughters. He received a
letter at the commencement of the present month from the
young lady who has set the example to the rest of the family,
in which, after expressing her unalterable affection for her pa-
rent, and her regret that the course she had pursued should
cause him any uneasiness, she stated that she was more and
inore confirmed in her views, and convinced of the propriety
of the step she had taken, and that she would rather die than
relinquish the faith she had embraced after an experiment of
its effects. The other daughters, although,f hey have not de-
clared their intention of joining the catholic church, have fre-
quently expressed themselves. ,o strongly in favour of that esta-
blishment that their father celild not but entertain fears that
their late residence in the convent; coupled with the stronger
example of their sister, might yet induce them to rank them-
selves amongst its members.