Letter to the governors of Christ's Hospital, being a refutation of the invectives and misrepresentations contained in a letter from the Rev. Dawson Warren ... to William Mellish, Esq. M.P / [Robert Waithman].

  • Robert Waithman
Date:
[1808]
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Credit: Letter to the governors of Christ's Hospital, being a refutation of the invectives and misrepresentations contained in a letter from the Rev. Dawson Warren ... to William Mellish, Esq. M.P / [Robert Waithman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Seo ‘ tight was formerly vested—for what purpose it was ti part -relinquished—and that a misgovernment had since prevailed —a remedy might be obtained? Or even by application to the chancellor? Can the Rev. Gentleman be ignorant that the establishment was principally intended for the sons of decayed citizens, who were liable from the very nature of. trade to be suddenly precipitated from affluence into in- digence? He also might have known, what I believe to be a fact, that the citizens do contribute towards its funds, by taxes annually imposed on carts, &c. besides the pro- — perty originally vested in them. What claim has he then who is not a citizen of London? He who is represented, and I believe truly, to have an’ income of 1200]. per annum, with rich relations, from whom he has large expectations, and three very near rela~ putes should be settled; *¢ and that the actual ordering, ma ** nagement, and government, of the said Hospitals respec- 6 ~~ tively, shall for ever hereafter be continued in the Mayor and << Aldermen of the city, together with the other persons now | ‘* acting as governors, or hereafter to be elected as such in the ‘* usual mode of clection of governors of the said respective “+ Hospitals, and such of the commoners of the said city as shalt ‘é be elected and chosen in the manner hereafter to be hereby s directed, with such powers, rights, and privileges, to such “* uses and purposes, and under and subject to such restric. “s tions and trusts as are in the said charters and letters “S matent, and hereinafter in these articles expressed and contained,’ PAS : ~ -~ Jn this Act, the right of the city of London is fully recog~ nized, ‘The Hospital Seal is in the custody of the Chamberlain of London; and they cannot grant a lease without coming to 3 the court of Common-Council, nor sue or be sued but in the name of the corporation 3 ; all which is provided in the Act.