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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    = o3 distressed man’s” piteous case. Quite overpowered in) the affecting narrative, he r re “ Told the sad story, ? 4 + “¢ And twenty. times made pause to soband weep, — “ That all the standers by had wet their checks | sn Like trees peach with rain.” *¢ In faith, ’twas atraneut ?twas passing strange! oT was pitiful! ’twas wond’rous pitiful!!!” “He stated that his income was only 800l. per ann.; that his farming account was a losing one; and he described his life to bei in such a precarious state, that he could not in any office ef- fect ¢ an insurance u/ion it. : ' Thave represented Mr. Warren’s income at 12001. per ‘annum. iat have heard his corn rents alone stated over and everagain, upon the. authority of the person who collected them, at $291. To this grand item of profit, are to be added his house, garden, and thirty acres of land, for which T know farmers who would give 41. per acre. It is evident, the sagacious alderman left this out of the account in his estimate as alosing concern, If M1. War- ren chooses to hold’ the land himself, and loses by -bad management, what is that to the purpose? There are stil] the acres, for which he may have the money. There are besides thé Easter offerings and surplice dues. Let all these be taken into the account, and let it be decided whether ae With “respect to Mr. Warren’s life, he may labour un- der some complaint, and may still reach a very advanced seems as likely now to live twelve years, as he did twelve such an assertion? Was it it for the purpose, as Mr. Warren would call it, of ** embellishing his oration?” [call J