Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-05-25

galnst the will OF their parents. am M.
find .ng fault with this power given BY ,b-
law amon!y stating the fact and therA
remains In nv mind very little doubt, thu,
there Is caused by these separations Of
shildren and parents more anguish in one
mouth. than proceeds from thc same cause
in Africa and the West Indies in twen,,
years. e But, the poor negrc.i are le,,
out to keep and to hire; their labour IS
bargained for, like that OF horses or asses;
and thus are they degraded beneath the hn.
man Species" Whereupor, sir, give me
leave to cali your philanthropic attention to
proposed bargain of this sort 90 farther
off than the county of Sussex. the prof..
sition being made through one the Ports.
mouth news papers, and dated on thu s7tb
Of December last. The visitors and
guardians of the poor of sixteen united pa.
rishes, whose house of industry is situate
at Eastbourse, near Mlhurst, Sussex,
are DESTROYS Of Immediately receiving pro.
posals from persons willing TO contract for
pro- ding the diet and cloath:sg, and for
1aking the hbour of the paupers III The said
house, at specific sum weekly for each
pauper, for one year, to b. directed 70
Fir. Tyler, Petworth, Sussex, On applica.
ton to whom further pa :liculars nav be
had, and the form of the contract maybe
seen. The contractor will be paid con.
stantly for seventy paupers a; the least, and
will be repaid the price exceeding twenty
Il IL T,r Ill r
pauper's feod.7 Now. SIR, these are our
Own country people; our own flesh and
blood and skin. Why, then, while they
are thus contracted tor and let out; WHY
should we seek for objects of compassion
elsewhere We cannot he1 this mise.
,ryTsand degradation in England" But.
have zUe endeavouredS Have those endsa.
voured to lessen them or to prevent them
for the future /; those who have been the
constant supporters and panegyris,s Of
your friend, Mr.Fr Since. that gentle.
man came into power, aid since you came
into parliament, sir, the paupers of Eng.
land have nearly doubled in humber, rs.
ing, during the twenty years, from about
100000 to more than 1000 GOO! Thus,
sir, whleyou and Mr.. Pitt have been al.
most annually proposing some measure to
mitigate or to remove altogether the ina.
ginary miseries of negro slavery, our own
paupers, under the administration of that
Mr.. Pitt, have received an dugmentstim
of numbers greater than the numbers of all
the negroes put together in the whole Of
the British West India islands! "Mr.
Pitt cannot help that" do not say that
he can. do not impute to him any infea-
ton to make this fearful addition to the
paupers of England. When l consider,
that, since he has been minister, an add.
ton of 17,Ooo,oool. sterling per aunun.
has been made to the interest of the public
debt, when consider how much has thus
been drawn from the labourof the people,
and given to the loan iobbers and other
makersof, and dealers in paper money:
when consider these things, l am, indeed
at no loss to discover whence has arisen
the addition TO the number of our pau.
pers.
But, be the caufe wbatit may, the faj efsa
is before US. There are million of our own
country people in mifery, and nearly one halt of
the million have fallen into this fate lnce Mr..
Pitt and you drf agitated the Icitions reativ:
to negr lasery. And, does il not become US,
ff, to lay aide all philaahrapc exertions in be.
half of foreigners, Especially negroes. till ";
nave made fome .x-rtions in behalf OF our fuf.f.
ing countrymcn? True, the negroes may be
yet too clofely lodged during their outage from
Africa to America but, fir, in the psrifh where
you and live, where th@ parliament has the ire.
quens opportunity CT hearing the efuhons q your
humanity in this very pdrlh, and not many
PAGES from you own door, you may (f the col
ietfor of the poor ra!es has not mfnforD,e3 mel
ind hundreds of maersble b:iags more cIofey
packed together in their beds than the negroes
ever are on board the ylii6cd Liv.rp,O! !hiP.
Nay, fl, are you not convinced, that th:fe 10
more uifery, m,re human filff:ring, asifing fr1n