erected proper works for carrying on a manufacture of fmall cord lines and twine for the ufe of the fishery.

、 Thefe worthy Governors alfo intend to agree for erecting other hofpitals for the young children in different parts of the country, where they may be main tained cheaper then they can near London, and will be of great ufe to the country, not only by the money which they will occasion to be expended there, but by fetting proper examples for the education and employment of poor children, the confequence of which to the public may more fully appear, by perusing a plan lately prefented to Parliament, by an honourable and worthy gentleman, eminent as well for his public fpirit as his knowledge of the laws and conftitutions of this kingdom.

The Method of admitting Children into the Hofpital.

The Secretary is to advertise publickly, three days fucceffively before the day of reception, the day and hours appointed for that purpofe.

The gate of the hofpital is to be opened by the porter, to every person who brings a child; but the porter is not to fuffer any perfon to bring two children, or to come in without a child, except the Governors, or fuch as they give orders to be admitted.

The perfons who bring children, are to be conducted into a large room, and ordered to feat themfelves on benches; those who bring boys at one end of the room, and thofe who bring girls at the other, and not to leave their places, till called, nor are they to take from their child any part of its cloathing, or other thing fent with it, on pain of being turned out of the hofpital. Two fervants of the hofpital are to attend, and fee this order obeyed.

When the hours of admittance are expired, a bell is to be rung, the doors of the hofpital are to be fhut, and no perfon admitted to bring a child after that time.

Two of the Governors are to count the number of perfons who have children, and how many have boys, and how many girls; and are to put into one bag fo many white balls, as there are boys to be admitted, and, into another bag, fo many white balls, as there are girls to be admitted.

To every twenty white balls, they are

The balls in each bag being mixed together, one of the Governors is to hold the bag, fo as it fhall be impoffible for the perfon, who fhall draw a ball out of it, to fee into it.

He is to call the perfons one by one from their feats to draw each a ball; and fuch perfon is to hold up her hand open in view of the Governors, before the it into the bag.

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Each perfon who fhall draw a black ball, shall immediately be led by the meffenger with her child out of the hospital.

The perfons who shall draw white and red balls, fhall be ordered into feparate rooms, to prevent changing of balls.

When all the balls are drawn, and the perfons who fhall draw black ones are discharged, the perfons who shall have drawn white ones, are to be carried back into the room of drawing, and feated as before thofe, who shall have drawn red ones, remaining apart from them who fhall have drawn the white ones. Then one person who has a white ball, is to be carried into a room alone, there to remain, till fuch time as her child shall be received, or refused.

The child is to be delivered to the meffenger, who is to carry it into the room appointed for the infpection.

The child is there to be undressed in the prefence of the matron; and if the phyfician, furgeon, or apothecary, attending, fhall have any fufpicion of its having any infectious diftemper; or if it appears to be above the age of two months; it fhall be returned to the person who brought it, in the cloaths in which it was brought, and fhall be taken immediately out of the hofpital.

If there is no fuch objection, it is to be received, and the perfon who brought it difmiffed.

culars of the child's drefs, the marks, if any, on its body; and particular mention is to be made, in fuch billet, of any writing, or other thing brought with the child.

Any writing, or remarkable thing, brought with the child, is to be fealed up immediately, and marked with the letter of the child on the outfide.

This being finished, one of the female fervants of the hofpital is to carry the child with the cloathing of the hofpital into the ward which is appointed for the taking in of children, and there to deliver it to the country nurfe, who has the fame letter of the alphabet with that of the child.

When one child is infpected, and delivered to its nurse, another perfon, having a white ball, is to be carried into the private room, in like manner; and fo on, till all the children, brought by the perfons who fhall have drawn white balls, fhall be infpected.

Then, if any of thofe children fhall have been rejected, there fhall be fo many white balls, as there are children rejected, put into the bag, and fo many black balls added to them, as, together with them,

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fhall make up the number of perfons who fhall have drawn red balls.

Thefe balls are to be drawn in like manner as the first, but the perfons who draw the black, may, if they defire it, ftay in the houfe, till they fhall fee, whe ther all the children of thofe perfons, who fhall, in the fecond drawing, have got white balls, are received, or rejected; and fo on, till the whole number of the children appointed to be taken in, are received.

When all the billets are compleated, they are to be fealed up by a Governor, and put into a box, together with all writings, or other remarkable things, brought with the children.

The porter is alfo to take care, that no moleftation be given, by any perfons without doors, to any perfons who bring children, either coming to or returning from the hofpital; and is to feize any perfons fo offending, and carry them before a Juftice of the peace, that they may be punished according to the act of Parliament, made for confirming the char ter of this Corporation; and is to have a conftable and other affiftants, as fhall be directed by the Governors..

Maeftufo.

Animatio

To bis Grace the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, &c. &c. The bumble Petition of Margaret Woffington, Spinfter.

Will you not ficken as you gaze,
Nay happ'ly perish in the blaze?
Remember Semele, who dy'd
A fatal victim to her pride.
Glorious example! How it fires me!

Thumbly offer my petition;

Let others, with as fmall pretenfions,
Teaze you for places and for penfions;
I fcorn a penfion, or a place,
My whole defign's upon your Grace.
The fum of my petition's this,
I claim, my Lord, an annual kifs ;
A kifs, by facred custom due
To me, and to be pay'd by you;
But left you entertain a doubt,
I'll make my title clearly out.
It was, as near as I can fix,
The fourth of April, forty-fix;
With joy I recollect the day)
As I was dreffing for the play,
In ftepp'd your Grace, and at your back
Appear'd my trusty guardian,

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Mac;

A fudden tremor fhook my frame,
Lord, how my colour went and came!
At length, to cut my ftory short,

You kifs'd me, Sir,-heav'n blefs you for't.,
The magic touch my fpirits drew
Up to my lips, and out they flew ;
Such pain and pleasure mix'd, I vow,
I felt all o'er, I don't know how.
The fecret, when your Grace withdrew,
Like light'ning to the Green-room flew ;
And plung'd the women in the fpleen;
The men receiv'd me for their Queen;
And from that moment fwore allegiance,
Nay Rich himself was all obedience.
Since that, your Grace has never yet
Refus'd to pay the annual debt;

To prove these facts, if you will have it,
Old Mac will make an affidavit :
If Mac's rejected as a fibber,
I must appeal to Colley Cibber.

By good advice I hither came,
To keep up my continual claim;
The duty's not confin'd to place,
But ev'ry-where affects your Grace ;
Which being perfonal on you,
No Deputy, my Lord, can do.
But, hold! fay fome, his fituation.
Is chang'd, confider his high ftation.
Can ftation, or can titles add,
To Dorfet, more than Dorfet had?
Let others, void of native grace,
Derive faint honour from a place ;
His greatness to himself he owes,
Nor borrows luftre, but beftows.
That's true, but ftill you answer wide,
How can he lay his ftate afide?
Then think betimes, can your weak fight
Support that fudden burst of light!

My bofom is to fear a stranger,

The prize is more enhanc'd by danger. * Mac Swiney.

Anfwers to the 14 REBUS's, in Vols. VII, VIII, and IX, not before now folved.

AGE 270, Vol. VII. Guilford. Page

trimony. 175, Petworth. 224, the first, Rainham, the fecond, Weymouth, and the third, Fullers-hill. 272, Ely. 320, the firft, Spices, the fecond, Abingdon. Page 182, Vol. IX. Huntingdon. 226, Cumberland. 280, the firft, Wolverhampton, the second, Biddeford.

HOUGHTONIENSIS,

We are obliged to Houghtonienfis for the above folutions, and muft defire thofe Gentlemen who favour us with compofitions of this kind, to fend their folutions with them.