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attested by two credible witnesses. Those who are deficient in intellect are not considered objects of this charity. None can be admitted under nine years of age, or elected after fourteen.-Candidates must first appear before the committee, and be approved as proper objects, before they can be admitted at the general meetings, two of which will be held in every year-the second Monday in January and July.

The charity provides the children with board and washing, as well as with education. The parents are only expected to find them decent cloathing.-The Patrons of this Institution, in order to perfect their design, through the assistance of a generous public, have lately erected a manufactory for the purpose of instructing some of the boys either in the art of a taylor or shoemaker. The girls to be taught to make stays, gloves, or some other art, whereby they may obtain a decent livelihood; by these means, those children who were once a burthen and a source of uneasiness to their families, will be enabled to provide for themselves in future, and Society reap the advantages of their industry.

The collection at the City of London Tavern on Monday, 2d of May, including annual subscriptions, amounted to £826; that at the sermon preached May 8 at St. Giles's, before the Duke of Gloucester, amounted to about £60. The church was crowded at an The children were extremely early hour. interesting. A boy of thirteen years old was at the desk with the clerk, and gave a convincing proof of the efficacy of the institution, by reciting the Lord's Prayer in a most audible and articulate manner.

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SOCIETY FOR MISSIONS TO AFRICA.

Sunday May 22, a sermon was preached at Clapham, by the Rev. B. Woodd, for the benefit of the Society for Missions to Africa

and the East. A collection was made which amounted to £80. 13s. 8d.

BRITISH LYING-IN HOSPITAL FOR MARRIED WOMEN, IN BROWNLOW STREET, LONG ACRE.

Patroness, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York. President, his Grace the Duke of Portland. Vice-Presidents, The Right Hon. Earl Spencer, The Right Hon. Lord Eardley, The Right Hon. Lord Gwydir, The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. Treasurer, Henry Hoare, Esq. Fleet-street. This charity was instituted in November, 1749, under the name of The Lying-in Hospital for Married Woman; and the first general meeting of the subscribers was, un der the patronage of the late Duke of Portland, held on the 17th of that month.

In April, 1756, by a resolution of a general court, it obtained the name of The British Lying-in Hospital for Married

women.

When we consider that the Public is interested in the lives of both mother and child, as the poor are the indispensable instruments of ease and happiness to the rich; and reflect upon the satisfaction that must rise in the breast of every individual subscriber, from the consciousness of having contributed to the comforts of a fellow creature, this charity cannot stand in need of any farther recommendation; but if to this we also add, that by such institutions the physician is enabled, from the number of patients under his care, in almost all possible cases, to derive considerable improvements to his profession, and to qualify proper female pupils, it must be allowed that the affluent receive their full share in the benefits arising to society from such establishments. This is a circumstance of so much importance to the community at large, that the following table is subjoined:

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midwifery, who remain in the house three A school is opened for female pupils in or four mouths, that they may have an opunder the direction of the matron. portunity of delivering women themselves,

Lectures are delivered to them by gentlemen of the faculty; and, a large apparatus of preparations is provided.

The wives of all soldiers and sailors, abroad, in the service of their country, are admitted.

Every governor for life, subscribing forty guineas, or annual subscriber of five guineas, has a right of presentation of two women in the year.

During the continuance of the women in this Hospital, they are provided with good, wholesome and sufficient provisions, besides proper medicines, and every care and attention both for themselves and children; also washing, and the use of proper clothes and linen for both.

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and county of Monaghen. Mr. Daniel Cook, minister at Ballymagran itinerated part of the summer chiefly in the county of Longford, extending, however, in some degree to the counties of Roscommon, Letrim, and Monnoghan. Mr. George Miller, of Glenvalle near Newry, laboured chiefly in the county of Down.

The committee have lately received applica tions from about ten persons, which are wil ling to engage in the service of the society as 0 schoolmasters in Ireland.

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30 69
694 5 7
145 6 9
87 13
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SONS OF THE CLERGY.

Anniversary of the Establishment of the £1,140 12 8 Sons of the Clergy, was celebrated May 12. About twelve o'clock, the Artillery Company Volunteers marched to Temple-bar, where they met his Royal Highness the Duke of York, whom they escorted to the cathedral of St. Paul's with their military band playing. At St. Paul's, his royal highness was met by the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen, and Chamberlain of London, his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishop of Norwich, Earls Radnor, Nelson, &c. &c. who served in person as Stewards. The music was under the direction of Sir William Parsons. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Francis Randolph, D.D. Prebendary of Bristol, &c. After the service the company went in pro cession to Merchant Taylor's-hall, where a sumptuous dinner was provided. The Lord Mayor filled the chair, with his Royal High ness the Duke of York on his right, and the Archbishop of Canterbury on his left. There

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HIBERNIAN SOCIETY.

Extracts from the Report of the Committee, were also present, Viscount Bridport; Lords

April 18, 1808.

In the course of the last year the following means have been employed for diffusing religious knowledge in Ireland.

Considering the destitute situation of a chapel in the city of Cork, the committee recommended Mr. Fleming of Liverpool, who was sent over to labour among them: attendance at the chapel has increased beyond expectations, and the trustees have engaged Mr. Fleming for twelve months.

The committee have also engaged Mr. Hastings a preacher in the neighbourhood of Armagh, to itinerate in some destitute parts of the north of Ireland: in the country surrounding Loch Neagh, which comprehends part of the counties of Tyrone, Londonderry, Antrim, and Armagh. Many of the Roman Catholics have attended his ministry, and received with avidity the tracts 'he distributed. He found it difficult to obtain proper persons for teaching Sunday schools, but the prospect of obtaing them is rather better than

it was.

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MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.

The Governors presume to call the attention of the public to the distressed state of the Middlesex hospital. This very meritorious charitable institution, the only hospital in the north part of this great town, contains wards. for the accommodation of 500 patients; but at present scarcely more than one tenth-part of that number can be received on account of the low state of its finances, and the whole must. in a short time be entirely shut up, unless. assistance be speedily obtained from the be nevolence of those who can duly appreciate the value of so useful a charity. This hos

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man-street; Mr. John Webster, secretary, Queen-street, Cheapside.

pital has been established not only for the annually, in the month of April, at the meetreception of sick and lame poor, on the ing-house in the Old Jewry, after which a usual recon mendation of governors, but for collection is made.-The managers meet the the indiscriminate admission, at all hours of first Tuesday in every month, from the month the day and night, of persons suffering under of October to the month of May, inclusive, accidents, which have contributed in a very at Batson's coffee-house, Cornhill, London, great degree to exhaust the finances of the to receive applications in behalf of petitioners. institution. Of this description of patients-Treasurer, Ebenezer Maitland, Esq. Coleonly, there have been cured and relieved at this hospi al nearly 25,000 persons, who otherwise night have died miserably in the An English widow, having an income exstreets, or become cripples during the rest of ceeding £30 per annum, is not deemed a their lives, and burthensome to their families proper object, unless she have one child to and their respective parishes. It is a lament- support. If she have an income of £35 able reflexion that four years ago it became per annum, she is a proper object, if she have necessary to shut up one of the wards par- three such children to support. And so proticularly allotted to that purpose, from the defi-gressively allowing £5 of income for every ciency of the finances of the hospital; and that the governors have since been often obliged to decline admitting many of those unfortunate objects.--Subscriptions will be thankfully received by John Morris, Esq. Treasurer, 21, Baker Street, Portman Square.

SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF NECESSITOUS
WIDOWS AND CHILDREN OF PROTESTANT
DISSENTING-MINISTERS DECEASED,

Thi charity was first instituted in 1733, and extends to the families of such ministers of the Fresbyterian, Independent, and Baptist, denominations, as, at their death, stood accepted and approved as such by the body of ministers of the denomination to which they respectively belonged, and who died so poor as not to leave their widows and children a sufficient subsistence. Previous to their being relieved, the above circumstances must be attested by one or more ministers, and the petition signed by a member of this society.-Every person, subscribing one guinea or upwards for two years, the same to be paid on or before Midsummer in each year, becomes after that time a member of this society, during the continuance of his subscription.-At the first institution of this charity, the annual sum given to the English widows was £5 and to the Welch widows £3. The annual sum now given to the English widows, has been 12. 12s. and to the Welch widows, £9. gs. The number of widows annually relieved by this useful charity has, for some years past, been upwards of 160.-The managers are likewise empowered to give the sum of £10 each to any number of widows, not exceed ing ten in one year, who may be in want of immediate assistance, and whose cases are peculiarly distressing and properly authenticated. The managers may also give the sum of £10 for apprenticing out any child of a deceased minister. A general meeting of the subscribers is held once a year, when twenty-four managers, together with a treasurer and secreta ry, are chosen. A sermon, recommending the useful purposes of this society, is preached

two children. Every Welch widow having an
income of £18 per annum, and one child to
support, is deemed a proper object: also, if
having an income of £1 per annum, she
has three children. And so progressively al-
lowing an increase in income of £4 for an
increase of every two children.

The following is the state of the accounts from
March 25, 1807, to March 25, 1808.
Payments.

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29 ditto, in Wales, at 9 ditto...
9 ditto, to widows, at £10....
1 ditto, to ditto, at £8......
1 to Mrs. Ward, daughter of
Rev. Dr. Samuel Chandler,
to whose exertions this so-
ciety owes its institution....
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Balance in treasurer's hands...... 1185 1 9
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Legacy, by Mrs. Mary Thomas..
Dividends on public funds....
Exhibitions not yet paid............

31 10 0 223 13 0

34 2 9 95 0 0 1452 7 9. 174 7

£3649 5 9

We understand that the collection at the last annual sermon in May, preached by the, Rev. Mr. Hinton, of Oxford, was about L128. At the table about £134.

LITERARY FUND.

The anniversary of this institution was held at Freemasons' Tavern, on May 3, the Earl of Chichester in the chair. After dinner the usual loyal toasts, and the health of the Prince of Wales were drank.-The noble chairman, on his health being given, paid many high and deserved compliments to His Royal Highness, whose patronage was the means of the present prosperous state of the fund, and caused it to attract the attention of Mr. T. Newton, a descendant of the great Sir Isaac Newton, who had bequeathed his property for the benevolent purposes of this society. His lordship, in paying the merited tribute to the Prince, observed, "that the community might not perhaps at this moment have a due sense of the importance of his Highness's patronage in an institution of this nature; but future times would not fail to give a just tribute of applause to one who was almost the only prince of his time who paid that respect to literary merit which it deserved."

It would be needless to expatiate on the benevolent effects of this admirable institution; effects which are felt and known out of England as well as in. Whether with that gratitude it ought to be, we will not presume to say-suffice it for us to remark, that amongst others, who have, in silence, experienced the beneficence of this society, we know of one now residing at Paris, near the person of that Upstart who wishes at once to destroy all our charity and all our establishments-unequalled in all the countries of the earth put together.

Mr. W. T. Fitzgerald recited an excellent address on the occasion, part of which, as agreeing with the sentiments we have often expressed, we here extract. After describing the sad fate of many of our best authors, he thus concludes with an animated appeal to the Patriotism of the Land: Compare Panorama, Vol. II. p. 1307.

The Mase, with ardent zeal, invokes thy power,
To warm each bosom, at this awful hour,
When Europe's tyrant Europe's strength unites,
Against our Monarch, and his people's rights;
Against the noble Swede, who still remains,
Free from the vile dishonour of his chains.
Britons united may the world withstand!
'Tis only faction can subdue this land;
There, in the thoughts of all the good and wise,
Our foe's sole hope, and all our danger lies!
When the winds whistle, and the billows roar,
To drive the lab'ring vessel on the shore;
Do seamen then in private feuds engage,
And waste their time in enmity and rage?
Do little jealousies the crew divide,
When Death rides ghastly on the foaming tide?
When round the ship the elements conspire,
To sink in whirlpools, or to whelm in fire!

VOL. IV. [Lit. Pan. June, 1608.]

Non

The Ship in danger, all contention ends,
One common peril makes them common friends;
A gen'rous warmth, and emulation glows,
And false ambition cannot make them foes:
Unaw'd by tempests, unsubdu'd by fears,
Through raging seas the watchful Pilot steers;
The crew united, every danger brave,
And the proud vessel nobly stems the wave!

True patriots will forego, at such an hour,
The love of rule, and quenchless thirst of power:
For rival parties have this truth confess'd,
That England is above all nations bless'd!
Where can man call, but near the British throne,
His house his castle, and his mind his own?
Let us survey each prostrate country round,
Where else can Freedom's sacred tree be found?
France drench'd in blood, its shadow sought in
vain,

Holland's enslaved, and trebly shackled Spain !
The gallant Swiss for ever must deplore,
Those happy scenes that bless'd their vales before;
While poor Germania, France, in fatal hour,
Seduc'd by treason, or oppress'd by power!
And left to plunder'd Italy alone,
Her scorpion sceptre and her iron throne!
But, could the Corsican this land subdue,
THEIR CHAINS ARE LIGHT TO

FORGE FOR YOU:

THOSE HE'D

For England's Freedom, Wealth, and envied State Are the great objects of his deadliest hate.

Then let the Spirit of the Isle appear, Nerve ev'ry arm, and sharpen ev'ry spear; Let civil feuds disgraceful discord!-end, And ev'ry Briton be Britannia's friend! To public love let private interests yield, And rich, and poor, be ready for the field! In strong fraternal bands when marshal'd there, Can any man of England's cause despair? If such there be let fear his tongue withhold, Nor damp the patriot ardour of the bold; Let him remember, to his lasting shame, The hour of danger is the hour of fame. Our native free-born spirit is not brokeBritons will never bear the Gallic yoke; Like abject slaves endure the Tyrant's rod, Betray their country, and offend their God! Perish the thought!-for England still shall be Queen of the Isles! and Empress of the Sea. And though degraded kingdoms round her fall, Her fame shall rise superior to them all; Till Gallia's Tyrant shall with anguish own, That freedom makes impregnable her throne! There, Britons serve the Monarch they revere, While nations crouch beneath the scourge they fears Let him then trample on a world of slaves, That land defies him which commands the waves.

* Compare Panorama, Vol. IV. p. 447. .

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DIDASCALIA.

DRURY LANE THEATRE.

A new comic opera, in three acts, called
The Jew of Mogadore, was performed, for
the first time at this theatre, on Tuesday, May
3, of which the Dramaris Personæ are:
Mr. Holland.
Mr. Kelly.
.Mr. Braham.
Mr. Raymond.
Mr. Dowion.
Mr. Johnstone.
Mr. Penley.
.Mrs. Mountain.
Signora Storace.
..Mrs. Bland.

Prince Giovan,.
Abdallobad,...
Nadan, the Jew,.

Rooney,....

Mardochée,

Zelma,

Mammora,. Brigida,... It is written by Mr. Cumberland. The story is very simple, and frequently reminded us of his former Jew: he is, in truth, the same philanthropic Jew living at Mogadore; almost all the interest of the piece proceeds from his benevolence.-A Sicilian galley, which has on board Prince Giovan and Zelma, the friend and mistress of Muli Selim, is wrecked on the coast of the Ouladin Arabs. They are seized, exposed forsale by the traffickers in Christian slaves, and are bought by the Jew Nadan, who purchases them only with a view to their ransom and liberation. Muli Selim recognizes with rapture and surprize his Želma, whom he supposed he had lost, and resolves to marry her, at the risk of incurring the displeasure of his father. He is suddenly apprized of his father's death, and of the mutiny of his black battalions. He quells the mutiny, conquers, and marries his beloved Zelma. There is a trifling under-plot.

The songs are different from what we are usually satiated with in new operas; they evince the superiority of the author's muse; our readers will find some extracts in page 500. Although we do not meet with that brilliancy in the dialogue which we have been so often entertained with in some of Mr. C.'s pieces, yet it is chaste and polished; nor is it once disfigured by a single oath, which we should have Nota Brne'd, if the piece had been written by any other of our modern play-wrights; but Mr. Cumberland disdains any auxiliary that can wound the cause of morality, religion, and good breeding; a line of conduct happily pursued from his first entrance into dramatic literature until the verge of eighty, and he is still a gentleman of the old school.

The music is composed by Kelly and does him very great credit. He has been particularly happy in the songs assigned to Braham, who was encored in most of them. We do not remember ever to have seen or heard him To such advantage. The performers exerted themselves with success. Dowton played the Jew with effect, and Johnstone was much applauded in his characteristic songs.-The

piece was very candidly attended to; nor was there the slightest disapprobation expressed until the falling of the curtain, when some marks of discontent were displayed.

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COVENT GARDEN.

The managers of the theatre royal CoventGarden, not to be behind hand with the Drury Lane directors, have lately exhibited, pompously exhibited, the disgusting spectacle of a British Prince made a prisoner in his own dominions, and carried in chains to Rome, to swell the triumphs of an ancient crafty Italian invader of Old England. We allude to the revival of Bonduca, which soon followed the heels of the Drury Lane dancing Caractacus. We ask the managers if they seriously conceive this to be a time for such melancholy and disheartening exhibitions, when Britain stands alone erect, still uuappalled, amidst the wreck of nations? We will not accuse them of a want of a love of their country, as we have seen one of thein in the ranks as a volunteer ;* and another has told us, describing the times, that, by the dramatic ministers " shaking of the head" of one of his stand that even though they had more jus he gave us to under"tice in their cause, and wisdom in their measures-yet, if there was not a greater "spirit shown on the part of the people"the country would at last fall a sacrifice to "the hostile ambition of its enemies."t-Our opinion is, that if ever the boasted modern Italian invader could be master of London, and rattle his grape shot down Cheapside and Fleet Street, to make us as happy and tame as he is now making the people of Madrid, and Lisbon, we have no doubt that he would order [De par l'Empereur et RoiJsuch pieces to be performed at Covent Garden and Drury Lane as Caractacus and Bonduca, and as splendidly decorated too as our patriotic managers have lately done; for he well knows the effect of dramatic pieces; the players formerly being his greatest friends-indeed we remember him and them the very jack alls of the revolution. And who has not heard of Dugazon, Trial, and the still more atrocious savages Grammont and Son, and Collot d'Herbois ?-If we must have politics on the stage, let them encourage our national ardour, and not endeavour to depress, and make us familiar with degradation, so as to become a prey to imbecility and despair, like the rest of conden excepted. Such exhibitions at this time temptible Europe, the gallant King of Swemight not perhaps be outrée at the OPERA, supported by French dancers and Italian sing, Garden and Drury Lane, " 'tis most horrible." ers, pensioners of Buonaparte; but at Covent

* Mr. J. Kemble was Lieutenant of the St. Giles and St. George Bloomsbury Volunteers. † Lord Burleigh, in Sheridan's Critic,

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