address, and inscribe on the outside with the same sentence or verse as the treatise is marked with, which paper, in case his treatise is intitled to the medal, will be opened, or else destroyed unopened, or delivered back if it be so desired, and the medal will be delivered to the author, or any person producing a letter signed by him, and distinguished by his token, impowering such person to receive the medal.

A sum not exceeding 2001. is allotted annually by the society, to be bestowed in such proportion, on sucli condition, and at such times as the society shall judge proper, for new discoveries or improvements in husbandry, mechanics, arts, manufactures, or other matters which shall be found really to deserve encouragement on account of their public utility, and for which no premium has been offered. These rewards to be determined and distributed only between the second Wednesday in November, and the last Wednesday in May.

N. B. No premium will in any case be given, unless the performance be deemed by the society to have sufficient merit to deserve their encouragement. It is required in all cases, where it can be done, that the matters for which premiums are offered be delivered in without names, or any intimation to whom they belong; that each particular thing be marked in what manner each claimant thinks fit, he or she sending with it a paper sealed up, having without side a corresponding mark, and within side the claimant's name and address. No papers shall be opened but such as gain premiums,

all the rest shall be returned unopened, with the matters to which

they belong, if enquired after by their marks within half a year: after which time, if not demanded, they shall be publicly burnt, unopened, at some meeting of the society.

Whereas there are societies for the encouragement of arts, manu, factures and commerce in, that part of Great Britain called Scotland, and also in Ireland; therefore all the premiums of this society are designed for that part of Great Britain called England, the dominion of Wales, and town of Ber+ wick upon Tweed, unless express ly mentioned to the contrary; and the claims shall be determined as soon as possible after the delivery of the specimens. Proper affidavits, or such certificates as the society shall require, are to be produced on every article.

By order of the society,

GEO. Box, secretary. Note, any information or advice that may forward the designs of this society for the public good, will be received thankfully, and duly considered, if communicated by letter, directed to Mr. Box, the secretary, at the society's office, opposite Beaufort-buildings, in the Strand, London.

made against it which have been obviated by experience upon carrying it into execution, as the old sophist's argument to prove there could be no motion was at once overturned by his opponent's walking cross the room.

It was said first, that no objects would offer themselves, or that, if they did, they would be such only as could live by prostitution no longer, whose reformation would be impossible, as they would seek refuge not from vice but from hunger, urged not by penitence but inability to sin.

That this objection, however specious, was ill grounded, now appears beyond contradiction from the numbers that crouded to the house, which was appointed for their reception, the moment the doors were open, the greater part of whom were under the age of 20, and many of them not more than 14, and from the behaviour of those who have been received, which in general has been such as shewed the utmost horror of the state they had quitted, the most glad and grateful sense of the refuge they had found, and the most scrupulous observation of all the rules prescribed for their behaviour in it.

This objection probably rose from a supposition that those who became prostitutes were betrayed to such a course by a love of pleasure, and retained in it by a love of idleness; but this charity has furnished incontestible proof, that the supposition itself is erroneous: the greater part of those who have fled to the shelter it affords having been seduced by the most artful and insidious contrivances of wretches who preside over marts

of prostitution, and whose emissaries are like their Father the de-. vil, continually going about seeking whom they may devour; and when once seduced, kept by various artifices in a state of servile dependance, under pecuniary obligations, which they were ensnared to contract almost without knowing it, without recommenda tion to procure employment, and without friends who could afford them protection, as appears by many letters now in Mr. Dingley's hands, and many particulars which he is ready to attest.

2. It was objected, that the institution would at length totally prevent a vicè, which every wise government has thought fit to toferate for the prevention of greater evils. This objection, which by the way presupposes that every prostitute is penitent, and would cease to be so the moment it was in her power, is at once obviated by considering the vast dispropor-. tion between the number that this charity can relieve, and the pumber that upon the supposition which the objection implies, would be candidates for it.

3: It was, on the contrary, objected by others, that this institution would encourage prostitution, by rendering its consequences not so desperately ruinous; but, to suppose that a woman would com mence prostitute, because there is a possibility of ber being received into an hospital after the loss of her health, peace, and reputation, is just as absurd as to suppose that a mason would be careless how he mounted a ladder, and indifferent whether he should or should not fall down and break his limbs, because, if he is not killed on the M 4

spot,

spot, there is an hospital, in which he may possibly be cured.

4. It has been objected, that no provision can be made for these women, when they shall quit the hospital, which will deliver them from the fatal necessity of returning to the same course of life they had quitted for bread. In answer to this objection, it is sufficient to say, that many have already been provided for by the reconciliation

the body only but the soul, may be preserved, and while we are breaking off our sins by shewing mercy to the poor, they may themselves be enabled to cut off iniquity by righteousnesss.

ODD ADVERTISEMENTS.

From the Public Advertiser, March 30, 1759.

O err, is a blemish entailed

taken them under their protection; and many more will be taught useful employments, by which they will be able to procure a comfortable and honest subsistence. From the industry of those already received, there is the greatest reason to hope that employments will not only be chearfully learned, but assiduously followed; for it appears, from a printed account, that from the commencement of the charity, August 10, 1758, to April 21, 1759, they have earned 1681. 19s. 11d. and there is also reason to hope from this gain, in the infancy of the institution, that when the whole is perfectly regulated, the women will nearly maintain themselves by their own labour.

The sermon preached before the governors by Mr. Dodd is a manly, rational, and pathetic address, as well to the understanding as the passions of mankind, in favour of those most pitiable of all human beings; and it it is hoped, that as the possibility of affording them relief, and preserving, at least their bodies, from perdition, is put beyond the possibility of doubt by incontestible facts, that their claim. will be admitted in common with those who are less wretched, especially, as by this institution, not

tions seldom or never escape from censure; the more heavy, as the character is more remarkable; and doubled, nay trebled by the world, if the progress of that character is marked by success; then malice shoots against it all her stings, the snakes of envy are let loose; to the human and generous heart then must the injured appeal, and certain relief will be found in impartial honour., Miss Fisher is forced to sue to that jurisdiction to protect her from the baseness of little scribblers and scurvy malevolence: she has been abused in public papers, exposed in print-shops, and, to wind up the whole, some wretches, mean, ignorant, and venal, would impose upon the public, by daring to pretend to publish her memoirs, She hopes to prevent the success of their endeavours, by thus publicly declaring that nothing of that sort has the slightest foundation in truth,

C. FISHER,

think of entering into the honourable state of matrimony. She is indifferent as to fortune, so she meets with a gentleman of good morals and family; indeed she would rather wish to marry a person without any fortune, that the gentleman may have the higher obligations to her, and of consequence treat her with that tenderness and regard, reasonably to be expected from persons under such circumstances. Her reason for taking this method, is, that it has been industriously given out, by people interested, (in order, she supposes, to prevent proposals) that she had determined never to marry. Letters, with proposals, will be received at the bar of the Smyrna coffee-house, directed for Z. Z. A description of the gentleman's person, age and profession, is requested to be inserted; and how to direct, if the proposals are approved of. The lady's conduct will bear the strictest serutiny. No letters received unless post paid, to prevent imperti

pence.

From the same, April 17. Whereas I had long despaired of meeting with a temptation to enter into the holy state of matrimony, till taking up the paper of Friday last, I read the agreeable advertisement of a lady whose sentiments jump so entirely with mine, I am convinced we are cut out for each other, and therefore take this method of describing myself; I am a gentle man of an unexceptionable good family; losses and crosses have reduced my fortune to my wardrobe, a diamond ring, a gold watch, and an amber headed cane; but as you have generously said, you don't even wish a fortune, I imagine this will be no hindrance: My person

is far from disagreeable, my skin smooth and shining, my forehead high and polished; my eyes sharp tho' small, my nose long and aquiline, my mouth wide, and what teeth I have perfectly sound: all this, with the addition of a flaxen full bottom suitable to the age of between forty and fifty, with a good heart and sweet disposition, and not one unruly particle, compose the man who will be willing, upon the slightest intimation, to pay his devoirs to the lady. If she will direct her letter for S. U. to be left at St. James's coffee-house, the gentleman will wait on her wherever she pleases to appoint him. . ADVERTISEMENT.

Whereas I, William Margetts, the younger, was, at the last assizes for the county of Cambridge, convicted upon an indictment for an attempt to raise the price of corn in Ely market, upon the 24th day of September, 1757, by offering the sum of six shillings a bushel for wheat, for which no more than five shillings and nine pence was demanded: And whereas, on the earnest solicitation and request of myself and friends, the prosecutor has been prevailed upon to forbear any further prosecution against me on my submitting to make the following satisfaction, viz. upon my paying the sum of 50l. to the poor inhabitants of the town of Ely; to be distributed by the ministers and church-wardens of the several parishes in the said town of Ely; and the further sum of 50l. to the poor inhabitants of the town of. Cambridge, to be distributed by the ministers and church-wardens of the several parishes in the said town; and the full costs of the prosecution; and upon my reading this acknow

ledge

ledgemeut of my offence publicly, and with a loud voice, in the presence of a magistrate, constable, or other peace officer, of the said town of Ely, at the market place there, between the hours of twelve and one o'clock, on a public market day, and likewise subscribing and publishing the same in three of the evening papers printed at London, and in the Cambridge journal, on four different days, and I have accordingly paid the said two sums of fifty pounds and costs. And do hereby confess myself to have been guilty of the said offence, and testify my sincere and hearty sorrow in having committed a crime, which, in its consequences, tended so much to increase the distress of the poor, in the late calamitous scarcity: And I do hereby most humbly acknowledge the lenity of the prosecutor, and beg pardon of the public in general, and of the town of Ely in particular.

This paper was read by me at the public market place at Ely, in the presence of Thomas Aungier, gentleman, chief constable, on the 2d day of June, 1759, being a public market day there, and is now, as a further proof of the just sense I have of the heinousness of

my crime, subscribed and published by me, WM. MARGETTS,

Under Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, Witness, JAMES DAY;

The following extraordinary adver

tisement appeared in the Public Advertiser.

"To be sold, a fine grey mare, full fifteen hands high, gone after the hounds many times, rising six years, and no more, moves as well asmost creatures upon earth, as good a road mare as any in ten counties and ten to that, trots at a confound ed pace, is from the country, and her owner will sell her for nine guineas; if some folks had her she would fetch near three times the money, I have no acquaintance, and money I want; and a service in a shop to carry parcels, or to be in a gentleman's service. My father gave me the mare to get rid of me, and to try my fortune in London, and am just come from Shropshire, and I can be recommended, as Į suppose no body takes servants without, and can have a voucher for my mare. Enquire for me at the Talbot-inn, near the New-church in the Strand.".

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