An account of the Foundling Hospital in London, for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children.

Date:
MDCCXCIX [1799]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the Foundling Hospital in London, for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    fcquence' of parliamentary interference.—We mull - not therefore wonder that, .for a feries of years, it fhould have fathered a diminution of income and property ; and fhould have been generally,', though unfairly, afperfed for that wafte of capital, which, without driving from its walls a number of helplefs objects, could not have been prevented.—The afiertion • of general abufes, ip the management of a pub- lic truft, is .made with eafe; but not repelled without trouble and detail; even.'if - the public attention can be drawn to it; and 1 anj forry to add, is very‘willingly advanced, or credited, by many, who too' eafdy admit private motives to inHuence the conduct of public concerns. jl ... „t..\ ,f -The governors, without giving L °f • up the. original object of their ii\- u . • ilitution, .adopted; and puriued-. a jiteady.and ; regular, plan, of * economy; and It was.probably-one. pf the copfequences of this fyftem of economy, that' d cyftom has ceafed, ( whic-h tia'd piivdiled and had beeh authorized by one of the regulations of the hofpital) of making a prefent to the * children of the.hqfpital, at the expiration of their ap- prenticelhi^', in cafe of teftimonials of good behaviour. ' iVis* practice might be •* renewed with very good ef- •C fe&
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