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    Institution of Tranquillity . 23

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    exposing him either to the pain of exclusion ^ or of exertion beyond his strength . The success ot this institution will , T think , supersede a great deal of the business , which , owing to a laxity of expression , we generally call iC charity ; and by enabling the people to make provision for themselves ^ will permit a great many persons to go back to their own affairs , who vnovv complain heavily of the attention that they are called upon to devote to the concerns of the poor .

    lam informed that there are several new charitable institutions in a state of preparation . Now , though I never hear of our large consumption of charity without pain , because it obliges me to admit that we stand in need of it ^ I do not regret the news upon the present occasion ; for I entertain a hope , that out of so much charity I may find a little benevolence : nay , I shall think myself unfortunate , if this paper does not fall into the hands of -some persons ^ who will contribute one guinea a year , to promote an establishment which shall enable the whole people to provide for their own independence ^ rather than tea to preserve the system of pauperism .

    Permit me , Sir , to add ^ that at a vast sum of risk and toil , I have introduced the plan to the notice of the public , and have overcome every difficulty but such as money alone can remove ; and I now appeal to the enlightened friends of the country ^ , in behalfof the advancing generation , which may be rendered happy , with a tythe of the generosity so injudiciously applied to keep their fathers miserable . A few respectable persons have called here and subscribed single guineas , as members of the " Society for the gradual Abolition of the Poor's Rate , " in order to bear the expences of establishment—a measure essential to the final accomplishment of the plan , as the institution could not otherwise secure to the annuitants the full advantages of their contributions ; and no inferior promise would be sufficiently intelligible to induce the generality of people to accept

    it . 1 am much mistaken , or the subscribers for this purpose will be so numerous ^ as to leave a large surplus to increase the fund for the benefit of the widows and orphans of deceased members ; but as I have no interest beyond what every friend of improvement must take in the . success of this measure , I will not attempt to persuade them by argument , but leave them to their own good sense ^ lam , Sir , Your obliged and obedient servant , Office of Tranquillity , JOHN BoNE * Albion-street , Blackfriars Bridge , Ja n . 15 , 1807 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1807, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2376/page/23/