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
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[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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    as : he is, I shall, uniess some good reasons shall occur to render inenpedient, exett my utmost endeavours to obtain for him the Same excellent education.” Gracious God! what a decla- ration! One would have thought the folly and indiscretion of such a declaration, to give it no other name, would have repressed it. “I was’ before led to doubt the corr ectness of my information, and expected the Rev. Gentleman would have placed this “ in the list of Dy ingenious ‘inventions.”’ But if the notice taken of the transaction has had no opera=— tion on his mind, does he imagine the governors are equally callous? Will Mr. Mellish give him another presentation? And if his claim is so fair and just, vy ishe so shchabd Ses ) at the exposure? It was a few weeks only before I heard of Mr. Warren’s — “child being placed in this charity, that 1 heard a charity sermon preached at Edmonton church, to a crowded con- _ gregation, from ae remarkable text, “* Take this child, and nurse it for me,”’ | The preacher, the Rey. Dr. Drake made a most af- fecting discourse. ‘There were few of his hearers but wha, shed tears, and I believe the Vicar himself, while he de- scribed in the most pathetic. terms the irresistible claims which all the needy and destitute had upon us. He often empha- tically repeated his text, as an imperative demand upon us to perform this duty to the best of our ability, and added thateven the widew’s mite was called for on such an occasion. | What surprise, astonishment, and indignation, must every one have felt, with these impressions remaining on his mind, to find that this child of the Vicar’s was put-in a public charity to be nursed for him, instead of the poor helpless child of want who had _ neither parent nor friend to perform this necessary office for it; and now to hear him avow hjs intentions ‘of soliciting for another, must outrage the fec]- ings of the most obdurate. , Mr, Warren observes, ‘* Mr. Griffiths bngored the : G2