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English Beggary

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
September
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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- Itev. Mr. Blanchardwritcsto the Philanthropist an account of ilic lamentable nmalgamation of crime, wrelchedness, ond de$titution presented by thé street benard of London. He concludes a letter thus: f expected mnci of this in a city of two mi Iions of peojJe, and in in a country, whicli, iml.ke ours, has lind to rear its freecíom amid the reuöaj corrnptions and despoticinstitulions ot the dark aes; vet, prepared as I was, the exteiitnnddiversity of the nicndicancy here, inspiteof my kno wiedde tl.at many of the bcgrgars are logues, and cheat?, and impostors, at times stocks, and almost uninans ' me - Parents surrouiidpd by their children, walk the strects and heg in families. Children iing inirronpsf.)rchanty. The blind stretch oiít thetr lank iiands in silence for alms. The sick crawl uut of thcir cellars and ask for help to get to the Hospital. Small boys dance beíore your rioors, and declare they have no bread. Thus old, ond young, and middleaged, men and w-omen, boys and girls they scrape a cymbal, thry fkïdJo, they crouch, the nlead, lliey ure silent, they whine, they lie tíiey cotmtcrfeit diseascs,a"nd display real ones, that they inay reacii breud."

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Signal of Liberty
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