Children Died. Returned Apprenticed. under 6 to their years old. parents. St. Giles in the Fields, and St. George Bloomsbury 1479 177 956 319 St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster 1109 181 766 172 St. Anne, Westminster 324 100 152 76 St. James, Westminster 861 215 250 243 St. Clement Danes 257 113 84 89 St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. George Martyr 756 137 308 207 Saffron Hill 231 30 82 95 St. James, Clerkenwell 701 104 456 116 St. Mary, Whitechapel 449 69 102 286 St. Saviour's, Southwark 539 105 205 187 St. Leonard, Shoreditch 586 99 178 185 St. John, Southwark 154 48 65 127 St. Luke, Old-street 421 103 103 234 St. Botolph, Aldgate 297 90 130 101 St. Martin in the Fields 1512 463 736 321 St. Paul, Covent-garden 51 8 27 36 ---- ---- ---- ---- 9727 2042 4600 2794 ---- ---- ---- ---- Children, nursed as the above authentic documents prove they were, cannot but have been checked in their growth; and perhaps many of them are at this moment part of the miserable objects we daily see in the streets. The exercise of a little humanity may prevent similar evils in future. There is an admirable example, which has long been established for our imitation, where the offspring of vice and humble virtue, equally innocent, are received and nurtured with the utmost care, and where human nature is rescued from debasement, corporeal and mental. Let the reader reflect on the thousands originally preserved, and their descendants rendered happy, through the god-like benevolence of Captain Coram; and he will immediately recollect the _Foundling Hospital_. In consequence of that worthy man's petition, George II. granted a Charter of incorporation, which authorised Charles duke of Richmond, and several other eminent persons, to purchase lands, &c. in mortmain, to the annual amount of 4000_l._ to be applied to the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted infants.