The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-02-03 00:00:00

THE 'S'I'A'VESMAIf:

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REFUGE FOR THE DESTITUTE. ,is indeed just ground to hope, from her general de.
pertinent, that the seductive influence of her aban-
INSTITUTED
—..segess—
IN WA. Jotted mistress has been effectually checked by the
salutary admonitions since conveyed, and that the
[ANNUAL REPORT CONCLUDE], PROM OER PAPER or
I humane exertions of the gentlemen, by whom she.
J Ail CARP 26.] I was recommended to the Institution, have not been
To melds the Ppblic to judge more accurately of , made in vain.
the benefits of this Institution, the Committee has :
*ils' Since the report of this case, the father of
submitted to their consideration the following cases: Ithe girl has requested that she may be restored to
SECOND CASK. i him ; feeling convinced that from the amendment of
A young woman, of the age of 23 year., was
het' mind, produced by such intervention and care,
brought to the Refuge in the most abject state of
he can with confidence:recommend her to any situa-
wretchedness, he one of the attendants of the flight
nom the Lord Mayor. She was born of poor and tiou of respectable service that may offer.
SIXTH CASK.
honest parents, in a populous town of one of the I A woman, 32 years of age, a native of Scotland,
eastern counties, and had lived some time in respect- led to deviate from her integrity, by many disap.
able itervice, with much credit to herself end to the poititments, ending in abject poverty and nakedness,
satisfaction of her employer. Mit she did not retain was committed to prison for pledging the furniture
her situation in consequence of one of those slight of her apartments. She was convicted, and sentenced
disputes which unhappily are too frequenty allowed to a long imprisonment; upon the conclusion of
to create irritations of indignant feeling that seldom which, finding herself destitute of all appearance
fail to operate to the inconvenience of both employers calculated to recommend her to employment of any
end employed, by separating a useful servant from kind, and knowing that her relations, who might
an eligible aenice. ' have been disposed to relieve her from such a state of
L'igea by false representations of the facility of desperation, were deceased, she approached the
getting into some profitable place immediately, she 6, Refuge," bearing in her hand the testimonials of
left the country, and came up to London ; but after the humane Governor of the prison, and in her eye
having, in vain, applied at several Register-offices, the full tear of penitence. She was instantly rescued
at all of which her expectation was kept faintly aline, from the horror of her situation, and was permitted
by the fruitless purchase of promises of infortatit'cl. to look forward once more to a repatable condition
she found herself utterly destitute in the midst of our .in life. T. this she was restored 15 months since by
wide metropolis, oithout any further means of sub- being recommended to the family of a most respect.
sistence, the small gains of her late servitude having able Clergyman in one of the nortieern counties,
been long expended—without friends—knowing no who, upon visiting Londoe, became impressed with
one, and wiliness it to all—without clothing, for all . the salutary plan of the Institution, and, es the best
had been pledged or sold—her last scanty meal oh. , mode of trying its effects, solicited that one of its
tallied with the sacrifice of her last rag of under- , objects, not unwilling to travel so far, might be al-
clothing, and only the bare covering of a ragged great lowed to become his 'servant. The Committee are
coat left for her almost famished frame.—At length happy to bear the most ample testimony to her con.
the door of her miserable lodging, for which she duct ; a pressing request having been- received, that
paid four-pence a night, was shut against her ; her another of the objects, possessing a similar disposition,
and attention to business, might be sent down to take
last farthing was paid the night before ! this had left
her no resource for food ; and she was ew without a different department of service in the same family.
even a shelter for her miseries. All ho was gone ! ; Thus a fellow-creature has been saved from a subse.
Hitherto she had withheld all knowledg of her sues
t quest life of vice and misery, and has been restored
Ito the society of virtuous people, in a part of the cessive disappointments from her parents, that she
might not communicate the afflictive tidings to them I country, approximating to her own in custom and
from whom she had voluntary withdrawn herself;; habit, where she is likely to pass the remainder of
and now, she could not, if she would, return ! ! her life in sobriety, honesty; and happiness.
During the greater part of the day, on which sh.: ~ 1 SEVENTH CASE.
had left her lodging, and throughout the whole of At the termination of a long confinement in pri.
the following night, she wandered in a state of de- , son, a young woman, 18 years of age, made appli.
spondency front street to street, without having cation to the Committee of the " Refuge for the
tasted any sustenance. Ott the succeeding morning Destitute," and was admitted. When 16 months
she passed by the Mansion-house, when her wretch- ' had expired she was restored, by mutual desire, to
ed appearance attracted the observation of the pas- , her father in the country. SOOll after her return to
sengers, and site was taken before the Lord Miyor, him, she was engaged as servant in a most respect-
by one of his Lordship's attendants. Her sorrow- . able family, in which she has lived a year and a half,
ful tale was heard, and his Lordship actuated by a i and continues in much estimation as a valuable do-
humane desire of saving her from the contaminating ' mestic. Thus, when nothing but ruin and despair
association of a prison (to which she must have been was before her, when she had no friend upon earth
subjected, had she beet, committed on the Vagrant Act whose protection she could at that moment solicit,
to be passed to her parish) sent her, by his officor, and trembling at the prospect of being impelled, its
to the 44 Refuge for the Destitute," with a revest l a few hours, by extreme want, to a repetitiou of
t
that she might be admitted—lt is needless to add that kind of crime for which she had severely suf.lo
that euchi canal was urn ntly acknowledged-by 14. lilted, she was, by the tiniely hatervostion of this
Committee, and attended to as a case of prevention. I Establishment, rescued from misery, and has been
She was fed and clothed, and after having beer a restored in useful, and, it is hoped, permanent rank
short time lodged at the expence of the Establishmeut in virtuous society. .
she was conveyed to her friends in the country.o— I fly Order of the Committee,
And thus a misguided young woman, who, by 1110 l ROBERT Cti ()sin'', secretary.
e
visionary anticipation of an ill-founded hope, hid : Retiree ow th Destitute, tit ittetesei.timee,
Hackney-rand, April 23, ISI4.
involved herself in all the most afflictive exposure l,f '
inexperience, and was plunged in the severest th-
tretnities of want, was rescued from the destructrin

LAO MTH LLIGENCE.

that was ready to close in upon her steps—was
snntched from the ruinous consequences of her nWn
own improvidence—was saved from the corruptioas
of the vile and abandoned—was restored to herself—
and was preserved to her parents and society.

Thfs being the Purification, no business was done
at Westminster Hall.
The Low) CHIEF JUSTICE Silt for a short time at
Guildhall, and tried two London causes of no publit
interest..

THIRD (ASE.
A young female had committed an act of felo
which subjected her to trial, and she was capi y
convicted. The circumstances of her peruliar
were, however, such as to engage attention, and On
the report of it being made to his Royal Highness
the Prince Regent, he was graciously pleased to par-
don her, on condition that she should he delivered
over to the protection of the " Refuge for the Des-
titute." In the anxious hope that this wretched col-
lect might prove deserving of the Royal Clemency, she
was received into the house. With much pleasure it

INSOLVENT DEBIOR.S" COURT, FEB. 2.

is added, that she has ever since so conducted her-
self, as• trot only to warrant a belief that she deeply
laments the wickedness of having yielded to the
temptation which beset her, but that the time is
not far distant when she may again mix in sock,
ty, and virtuously repair the Injury which she
had committed against the laws of her God and Her
country.