The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-03 00:00:00

01.5:11RESSKII SAILORS.. •

. A Meeting look place leaatertley it the King's
Bead, Poeitse,, with the otioict Of proposing end
adopting some speedy useenc of relieving the minter-
c . •
iltst4iettessid Seamen with 411,0 the itreeti if Lou..
-dent aria dail crowded: ' •:,itt
• No other notice having beetsgiven-of lb. Meeting
plecords, it was not nueseroustY at-
tended. There werei however, cestlisitsnoianitiart.,
pried, which win be an Wider beg; :submitted to
the consideration of the Public,
It appeared from the itaieseint 'nfthe Chairmen,
Mr. M'Au,Lair, that the .sObject had previously on.
dergnne some investigation; and that a Committee
had been formed with the view of fitting upon the
most eligible 'mode of facilitating the clews of those
who proposed the Meeting. Amongst the names of
the Committeet, those .of . the late and the present
Lord Mayors appeared.
His Lot dship declined taiing the Chair, end begged
to be understood in doing so, as not acting from any
ether feelings than those of humanity• lie was ap-
prehensive of the conaeqoences of giving his public
sanction to a Meeting, the result of which might be
the prodigious influx of the distressed, end those pre-
tending to be se, to the city of London ; en event
Hsat world addlo the ezbibitious of misery, that daily
stook place. •
, ilia Lordship( wee informed by the Chairman, that
tile members of the Committee had considered the
probability just @IWO to,ond, therefore, act.
with thedelicacy to necessary upon a subject which
,eight have met with premature publication.
Mr.PAINt, Clerk to thi Magistrates at theVuild-
Neil Poltce-Office, begged to be allowed .tn my a
few worth: lie Woe its the habit of witnessing scenes
of greearlistreas,. and, ha,truateds there Would be a
CotePetatien beilltown,tho Aleeting and the Magi--
-trete, of Poll.* upon.* eobjeot to important. lie
thescread the Petition which liohad presented to the
Court of Common: Coattail this lithDecember,.and
expressed a hope that, is the .Committee of City
Leads, to which it. was referred, could not recom-
mence their lona*. for some time, the interval
Would be occopied.ip providing some swabs of relief:
The Loudon itVorkhouae, established in the reign of
Chattels...ll. in opieiest,• presented an asylum, by
which etareationt at, legal, could be prevented, and
at a future period theigpences might bidetrayed by
a regulation directing chat the different parishes
should pay in proprrtion to. their extent and • ability.
In antwer folks obsereedonof the Lord Mayor with
'respect to the .probable intuit of strange vagrants,
he had to say, dualist; City of Lnndoa could only
octet it was in the habit of doing when the hospitals
were fell; there heing• no, room; those who could
not be accommodated were obliged to wait till there
was, and the,City of Leaden Moult i by in exertion
in this cause, show, that an exainiiip to ether parts
of the country was not wanting.
The CHAIRMAN said, the, attention of those as-
sembled-we,. to be directed to the object of distio-
geiohing between woftly ends outvortity Objects ; that,
the former might be provided with eniployment in
shirt, and that impeators might he treated iith the!
wheleeinie_severity provided by Act of Parliament.'
There were wombers of *seamen about the streets in
a stilted diteese and nakedness iti consequence of
•theluimea4 Otos. and such pien could not be taken
Jotcalarselee until theca two Very revolting objectiene
teli•tellr. TO dielot. 'locum ioosk harm
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