PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY,

BY W. BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW, ST. JAMES'S;
AND SOLD BY J. HATCHARD, OPPOSITE ALBANY-

PLACE, PICCEDILLY;

ALSO BY BECKET, PALL-MALL; ROBSON, BOND-STREET;
PAYNE, MEW'S GATE; RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
YARD; EGERTON, WHITEHALL; CADELL AND DAVIES,
STRAND; AND VERNOR AND HOOD, POULTRY. ALSO BY
TODD, YORK; HAZARD, BATH; AKENHEAD AND SONS,
NEWCASTLE; PENNINGTON AND STANLEY, DURHAM ;
BROWNE, HULL; EASTON, SALISBURY; TREWMAN, EXE-
TER; CLARKE, MANCHESTER; HOUGH, CLOCESTER; AND
LEE, AT LEWES.

December 1806.

CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.

REPORT XIX.

Introductory Letter to the Fourth Volume, addressed

to the Rt. Hon. Henry Addington.-Account of

free chapel schools-of charity for lying-in women

-of cotton mills at Rothsay-APPENDIX, Contain-

ing report on cotton mills-advice as to dram-

drinking.

REPORT XX.

Account of supply of blankets to the poor-of society

in West-street-of supply of food and employment

at Mongewell-of straw platt at Avebury-of ladies

schools, &c. at Leeds.-APPENDIX, containing

hints as to split straw-advice to Foundling Appren-

tices.

REPORT XXI.

Account of contagious fever at Hull-of new cottage

grates of Montgomery house of industry-of

Sunday school at Kirkstall-of school for straw platt

at Fincham-APPENDIX, containing regulations of

the free chapel society-mode of reception of found-

ling children.

REPORT XXII.

Account of Ladies Committee-lying-in charity-

charity at Wymeswould-bank for the poor-paro-

chial returns in Ireland-school in the Borough—

house of refuge.-APPENDIX, address to and pro-

posed objects of Ladies Committee-regulations of

school-straw platt-ware-house for ditto-enquiry

about schools-Manchester repository-female semi-

nary.

REPORT XXIII.

Account of Mortlake friendly society--Hawkstone

school-charity in Tortola.-APPENDIX. Proposals

as to the poor-Address of ladies committee-regu-

lations of ditto-list of ditto-resolutions of Mortlake

society for promoting the welfare of the poor.

REPORT XXIV.

Account of mode of employing parish children at
Birmingham-of provision for sick poor at Ongar
APPENDIX Containing queries from Ladies Com-
mittee a clergyman's legacy-report of the Ken-
dal schools advice from the endeavour society-
receipt for saving coals-LIST of Committee-and
of Subscribers.-Index to the Fourth Volume.

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No. CXXXIII.

Extract from the Rev. Mr. Clarkson's Account

of the System of the Quakers, with respect

to their Poor. By Thomas Bernard, Esq.

No. CXXXIV.

page 141

Extract from an Account of the Retreat for

old Age at Chaillot, near Paris. By Thomas

Edwards Freeman, Esq.

152

No. CXXXV.

Extract from a further Account of the School

for the Indigent Blind, at Liverpool. By

Thomas Bernard, Esq.

No. CXXXVI.

161

Extract from an Account of the Execution

of Criminal Law in Pensylvania. By

APPENDIX.

No. XIV.

Account of some cases of Typhus in the House

of Recovery at Dublin.

No. XV.

101

Extract from the Address of the BENEFICENT

SOCIETY AT EDINBURGH.

110

No. XVI.

Resolutions of the Physicians and Medical

Gentlemen of Liverpool, on the subject of

VACCINE INOCULATION.

No. XVII.

118

Exhortation to persons, who doubt about going

to the Holy Sacrament.

No. XVIII.

-

123

Extract from an Account of the measures

taken by the Spanish Government, to extend

the benefits of Vaccination to their Foreign

Dominions, and to other countries.

126

No. CXXXIII.

Extract from the Rev. Mr. Clarkson's Account of the System of the Quakers, with respect to their Poor. By THOMAS BERNARD, ESQ.

THERE are few parts of the Quaker-constitution that are more worthy of commendation, than that which relates to the poor. All the members of this Society, are considered as brethren, and as entitled to support from one another. If our streets or our roads be infested by miserable objects imploring our pity, no Quaker will be found among them. A Quaker-beggar would be a phænomenon in the world.

It does not, however, follow from this account, that there are no poor Quakers, or that members of this society are not born in a dependent state. The truth is, that there are poor as well as rich, but the wants M

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