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tie economy , that he cannqt with-, out great difficulty recover himself and regain a state of comfort * From this inconvenience the small gum granted by the charity of the hospital relieves him , and restores him to his trade in health , strength and spirits .
The Conservatoni are schools ppened for poor children of both sVxes , where they are educated , fed ^ and taught some handicraft or other . Some are in the nature o £ working-houses , and employ a prodigious number of indigent
persoiis of both , sexes in separate buildings , while others are devoted entirely to children educated princip a lly fpr t music . These latter iastiiutions have produced some , o £ rather most , of the great
performers and masters of the art , who have figured in the churches , or on the stages of the different capitals of Europe for . the last hundred years , Paesielli , Caffa
rejji , and Pergolese were formed in these seminaries . And indeed IJ&ples is to Italy , what Italy is tp the world at large , the great school of music , where that fascinating art is cultivated with the greatest . , ardor , ; ... an ardor
oftentimes carried to an extreme , and gjCo . ducti . ve . of consequences highly iEttschjeyoiis and degrading to humanity . It h true that the Castration of boys is rigorously prohibited by the laws both of dhurch and state ; but as long as th& fashionable classes in London
said , --Paris think proper to encourage and reward by enormous w ^ ges su ch performers , so long venal parents in Naples will find means to evade the laws , and still continue to sacrifice their unfortunate children to the hopes or ra-
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ther the certainty of , profit . Bu this practice is on the declint * even here , and in justice to the Neapolitans I must-observe , that if we may believe them , the operation alluded to is not permitted , nor indeed ever practised in their schools , but that unhappy children in that condition , when j ? enfe from other places are not excluded . Of the numberless ccmfratcrnu
ties I shall only specify such aa have some unusual and very singular object : such is that who&Q motto is Succurre Miseris , the members of which make it their
duty to visit condemned criminal ^ prepare them for death , accom * pany them to execution , and give them a decent burial . They carry their charitable intentions still farther , and provide for the widows and children of these
unhappy wretches . This society was originally composed of some of the first nobility of the city , biijt the tyrant Philip , influenced it seems by motives of political su $ ^ picion , forbad the nobles to eater into such associations , and in par . ticular confined the one we are
speaking of to the clergy . . The congregation De S . Ivon& consists of lawyers , who undertake to plead the causes of the poor gratis , and furnish all the expense ^
necessary to carry their suits through the courts with effect . To be entitled to the assistance and sup ^ port of this association , no recommendation or introduction 13
required ; the person applying has only to prove his poverty , ami give in a full and fair statement of his case . Congregazione delta Croce , composed principally of nobility , to relieve the poor and imprisoned ,
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„ Charitable Institutions at Ifaplet . \ 5
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/15/
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