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MISCELLANEOUS . London ^ August 23 , 1819 . Address of the Committee , appointed by a JSelect Meeting * held at Freemasoni Hall , on Saturday 9 , 0 th
June , 181 9 > and . reappointed by a General Public Meeting * held at the City of London Tavern , on Monday the % Q th day of July , 18 19 » for the purpose of Investigating and Report * ing on Mr . Qwwis Plan for Providing far the Poor *
The Committee referring to the reso * luiions and reports adopted by them , and confirmed hy a most numerous and respectable general meeting , beg leave further to submit the following considerations tO Jjukli * : — 1 - That Mr . Owen has for twenty ytors » ad under his sole irianVg * tnerit , as acting *
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partner , one of the largest ' manufactories in the kingdom , in wfrich upwartfs of 2000 workmen are employed : that he ha » eoiiducted it in a method which is very materially different from the ordinary
course , and which has nevertheless been found to produce the most important advantages both to the employers and tlrai workmen . Without entering" into minute details it may be here stated , that , the hours of labour have been shortened from
16 in the 24 to 10 § , that upwards of £ 700 per annum are expended hy the proprietors in the education of , the children of the workmen 5 that in the schools used for this purpose no corporal putvishmet * f is ever indicted : that no child nmfer Mfr
years &f age is employed at aM in labour j and that a certain portion of land is kept in garden cultivation by the same per So us who work ? n the manufactory . Under all these peculiarities , - and notwithstanding the difficulties of the times which hare
overwhelmed so many others , this establishment has continued , eminently to prosper ; and , according * to Mr . Owen * 8 opinion , the profits of it depend mainly upon those parts of the system of immag'ement . which are peculiar to itself . On the other hand , the officers of justice have not
in a single instance during the last fifteen years executed any criminal process in New Lanark . All persons agree in representing the manufactory to be in order ^ cleanliness and good arrangement , inconceivably superior to the generality ; and
( of late yeais especially , and since the more perfect formation of the schools ) the health , cheerfulness , intelligence , and excellent dispositions of the children , seem to have struck every *> ne who has visited the place with pleasure and surprise .
2 . It is now proposed to form a new establishment in which agricultural and iwanufacturing employment shall T > oth be used 5 but of which agriculture shall be the basis : Mr . Owen ' s increased experience , and the advantage of beginning- de
novo , will enable him to make arrangements much superior to those which exist at New Lanark : he expresses the most confident opinion that the capital employed will be rapidly repaid with interest 3 that the labourers may be placed in a state of comfort hitherto unknown to that class : he
offers to take upon himself the superintendence , at the s * ime time that he entirely precludes himself from de riving any profit , and he is desirous to > communicate in the most open and unreserved manner the whole details of his plan .
3 . Those details are before the public ; and the Committee having considered them , are of opinion that to a certain extent they are not only practicable , but aa suwj , as human institutions cau be sure * of pr 6 duo
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IntitlUgmee < .- ~ ft £ r . Qtv&fs Plan for Providing for the Poor' . 641
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Mr . HiSimY Bfcftfftt , I Southover F . BiixiNGSHURStf , $ southover Bev . John Morels , L . L . D ; JIb . William Stevens , > Brighton Samuel Francis , J Jambs Brown , > - » . , .. ft Henry Actox . i D ^ ckhng
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Sheffield Fellowship Fund . Oct . 17 , 1819 . At a special Meeting of the Fellowship Fujxd , held in the school-rooai of the Unitarian chapel , it was resolved , first , That we unanimously , and most cordially join
in the recommendation of the case of the native Unitarian Christians of Madras , given hy the committees of the Loughhorough and Mount Sorrell Fellowship Funds , to our brethren at Exeter , and hy them supported : and that we are ready to unite with them in asy practicable plan
for promoting and extending * the interests of pure Christianity in that part of the British empire . Secondly , it was resolved , That the sentiments and wishes ex pressed „ at this meeting shall be communicated to the
congregation at larg-e , the next Lord ' s day , and our respected pastor , Dr . Philipps , is requested to add such observations as he may deem best calculated to produce attention to the ease before us , and to the improvement of our Association , by additional members- —~ an Association which .
while it forms a bond of Christian fellowship amongst ourselves , uuites us with other societies , and may enable us , at a very small individual expense , to create an ample stock for the liberal support of our common cause . NATH . PHILIPPS , Chairman . F . W . EVERET , Treasurer .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1819, page 641, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1777/page/53/
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