Remarkable occurrences in the life of Jonas Hanway : comprehending an abstract of his travels in Russia, and Persia; a short history of the rise and progress of the charitable and political institutions founded or supported by him; several anecdotes, and an attempt to delineate his character / By John Pugh.

Pugh, John.

Date:: 1798

Credit: Remarkable occurrences in the life of Jonas Hanway : comprehending an abstract of his travels in Russia, and Persia; a short history of the rise and progress of the charitable and political institutions founded or supported by him; several anecdotes, and an attempt to delineate his character / By John Pugh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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I >5^ ] of his prefent Majefty, to be fet up in the town. The very next year a dreadful fire broke out in Bridge Town, in Barbadoes,. which confumed buildings and property to the amount of near one hundred thoufand , t pounds. A fubfcription was opened, in which Mr. Hanway was a principal aftor, and fourteen thoufand eight hundred and eighty-lix pounds were coUeded, and tranfmitted to a committee appointed at Barbadoes to diftribute it to the unfor- tunate Xufferers. / ^ tHiMKtY SWEEPERS. FROM the year 1766 to 1772, he v/as engaged in his official bufinefs, and in fupporting the charitable inftitutions which he had founded or interefted him* felf in, without attempting any new plan of confequencc. Jn this year he firft endea-

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