The Reports of the Society for bettering the condition and increasing the comforts of the poor. [Ed. by sir T. Bernard]. (1st-40th report, 1797-1817).

severity, or as there are judicious substitutes for the punishment of death.

I shall not inquire how far the right of taking away life on many occasions, which is sanctioned by the law of the land, can be supported on the ground of justice; or how far a greater injury is done by it, than the injury the criminal has himself done. As Christians, it seems that we should be influenced by Christian principles. Now, nothing can be more true, than that Christianity commands us to be tender-hearted one to another, to have a tender forbearance one with another, and to regard one another as brethren. We are taught also that men, independently of their accountableness to their own governments, are accountable for their actions in a future state, and that punishments are unquestionably to follow. But where are our forbearance and our love, where is our regard for the temporal and eternal interests of man,-where is our respect for the principles of the Gospel,if we make the reformation of a criminal a

less object than his punishment; or if we consign him to death in the midst of his sins, without having tried all the means in our power for his recovery?

14th Nov. 1806.

TWENTY-NINTH REPORT

THE SOCIETY

FOR

BETTERING THE CONDITION

AND

INCREASING THE COMFORTS

OF THE POOR.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY,

BY W.BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND ROW, ST. JAMES'S;

AND SOLD BY J. HATCHARD, OPPOSITE ALBANY-
PLACE, PICCADILLY;

ALSO BY BECKET, PALL-MALL; PAYNE, MEW'S CATE; RIVING-
TON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; EGERTON, WHITEHALL;
CADELL AND DAVIES, STRAND; VERNOR AND HOOD, POULTRY;
AND NORNAVILLE AND FELL, BOND-STREET. ALSO BY
TODD, YORK; HAZARD, BATH; AKENHEAD AND SONS, NEW-
CASTLE; PENNINGTON AND STANLEY, DURHAM; BROWNE,
HULL; EASTON, SALISBURY; TREWMAN, EXETER; CLARKE
MANCHESTER; HOUGH, GLOCESTER; AND LEE, AT LEWES.

November, 1807.

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 Mongewel-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 Tortela.-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.

AKAKAKAKAKA

No. CXXXVII.

An Extract from a further Account of the

London Fever Institution.

Extract from an Account of Vaccine Inocula-

tion in the neighbourhood of Buckingham.

By the Rev. J. T. A. Reed,

No. CXXXIX.