The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-18

residences OF the governors, contrib tied 10
these feariully fatal results. OF the Ia 93I
children received within the period of three
years, 1876 died. Alter trial OF varil1s ey.
pedients, the present plan, no In successful
operation for more than one hundred year.
was adopted under the sanction of Parliament.
since the year l16O the acquisitions for admis
sion have been illegitimacy, the pre- 3ious good
oharrcter OF the mother, and poverty. AS
before, all that would lead to identity, when
once once ohild Is admitted, Is destroyed. The
infant parts with Its natural relatives forever
The date OF admission only is registered. 1t
takes new name, Is dressed from the hospital
wardrobe, ente's the nursery, secs no vi,ltors
until 1t is old enough to take its place az. the
ordinary" (and then only for an hour on
SUNDAY noons), and knows no history beyond
the Founding walls.
From this date "a. d. 1760) the Founding
Hospital nSSe with no check. From the pur.
chase OF the estate in Guliord street Of the Earl
otSalisoury, 1t became a fashionable rendezvous.
with The settlement of its difficulties It's popu.
larlty increased, until it grew to be the most
ta7orite resort in the metropolis! Hogarth
established an annual exhibition of paintings In
the great hall, from which started the Royal
Academy. DR.. Burney founded here an academy
OF music Handel gave for several years the
profits OF the public performance Of his COM
positions, and his Messiah alone produced seven
thousand pounds for the charity. He also
selected and presented the organ as gift.
composed the chants and anthems still used in
the chapel service, and originated and perfected
the Founding choir. Lord Chief Justice Tenter-
den became principal patron, made munid-
cent gifts to the funde, and composed the
hymns still sung at the exhibitions. visit to
the Founding was the most fashionable lounge
OF the hrst twenty years OF the reign of George
III; The picture gallery during week days
and the music on Sundays drew crowds of
spectators in stylish equipagos from arisocratic
parts OF the metropolis. Queen Charlotte, once
attended by Mr.. Pitt, but more often by Lord
Butte, was a frequent visitor. The ample
grounds IN front of the handsome buildings
became the fashionable promenade of the
Londoners, and brocaded silks, gold
headed canes, and laced three cornered
The throngs OF visitors on Sundays are ways
large. The anxious and earnest faces OF many
OF the women who are to be found after service
In the dlning-hall, waiting the entrance of the
children, are suggestive enough. The latter
enter from the parlors two by two, in orderly
procession, the boys in the antique dress of the
last century, the girls with colts and white
plnatores, to take their places. with bowed
heads, while grace is said, and then with hands
folded until a signal is given, around the long,
neatly.arraDged and covered tables. From the
wives and sisters OF mechanics and laborers, up
TO the lady the panels of whose equipage wait
ing at the gate show the armOrial bearings of a
countess, there are scrutinzing looks at each
lule occupant OF seat as the Gro Id passes
around
can hardly be doubted that recognition o ten
takes place. al am certain it is he" whispered
a well dressed female just before us to her con-
panion, stopping before boy OF six or seven
am certain it is he! 1t is her nose and chm and
hair ard brow, and very toss of the head! l
know it is mel That touch of nature which
Woman's heart only can experience made the
face OF the speaker beautiful as the Madonna of
RubeDs in the Descent from the Cross.r But
she could not speak to the boy whose curl.
shaded brow and glorious eyes marked the
family likeness. The tie, whatever it was, had
been severed for life, and neither devotion in
sickness, nor pride in the expanding graces of
mind and person, nor JOY in the return of Law
ished love, was ever for ber. Such recognitions,
supposed or real, are not uncommon. close
observer cannot fail to de.ect them at any Sun
day dinner at the Founding.
Savage, the unfortunate son Of Lady Maccles.
field in that poem which DIR. johnson charac.
terized as containing "a refinement of sarcasm
uneQualed in the English language" claims
that, as race, foundlings are superior in gifts
of mind and graCes OF person to those who in
other respects are more fortunate. Whether
there be truth or not in this claim, it is certain
that the personal appearance of the eight
hundred children in the Founding Hospital at
the time of our visit, corroborated by visits of
my own subsequently made during period of
several years, was remarkable. No thoughtful
observer could fail to notice it. Out of the
three million population of London l doubt
whether the same number of specimens OF
perfect form and promise of future beauty
could be selected.
The prurient taste of the present century,
which, for what are falsely called moral reasons,
has forbidden the revelation of the true social
condition OF the upper classes In England, has
done thousand-fold more, on what is called
the ldtsSez- taiTe principle, 10 deprave morals
than all the fictitious works of Fielding, Smol-
lett, and Richardson. The morganatic cou
necuons of the sons of the royal family, eX-
cused in them on account of the Marriage act
OF Parliament prohibiting the descendants of
George II from contracting marriages, II under
twenty five, without the consent OF the sovereign
If over twenty-five, without the consent of
Parliament-and the same letthanded connec.
tons, without the same excuse, in ducal aud
other noble families--connections by which the
wife neither enjoys the rank nor lnherts for
herself or her children the possessions of her
husband-have been and still are an example
fruitful OF immortality in the United Kingdom.
This Marriage act, still force Is the key to the
unwritten memoirs OF the royal family during the
last seventy-hve years. The lives of that brood
of nine sons, issue of George III and Queen
Charlotte, would furnish n chapter in the
Chronlque Scdnddteuse unsurpassed in villainy
by the private memoirs of Louis XIV or the
Regent Orleans. When the Princess Charlotte,
then heiI apparent, died IN 1917, not one of the
seven sons OF George III then living had any
legitimate children. The Prince of Wales
afterwards George IV), her father, was sepa-
rated from his wife, the unfortunate Queen
Caroline, whom he had received in tit of
drunkenness and discarded on awakening to
sobriety, and had returned to Mrs. FitZhei bert.
The Duke OF Cumberland, king of Hanover a
country detached from the English dynasty by
SaliQue law when Victoria q cended the throne,
was not then father OF the blind son who has
recently lost his crown. The Duke OF Clarence
was allied by morganatic marriage to Mrs,
jordan, whose Oldest son, as Bari OF Munster,
afterwards became Governor General of India,
and whose other children, under the name of
Fhzclarence, still hold, they and their descen;
dants, high official positions under goVernme
The Duke OF York-whO, though guilty OF every
CRIME forbidden by the Decaiogue, and
WHOSE death made bankrupt thou-
SAND uadesmen, received the honor
of one of the most conspicuous and costly
London.