The other expenses for the prosecution and conviction of felons, the maintenance, clothing, employment, and transportation of convicts, to which may be added the farther sums annually charged on the county rates, amounted in 1797 to £215,869 13 10½ ═════════════════ In 1804, it was estimated that there were 2,044 beadles and watchmen, and 38 patrols, on nightly duty in, and around the Metropolis. Of these, the City proper, with its 25 wards, contributed 765 watchmen, and 38 patrols. The poor were pretty well taken care of. Besides the parochial workhouses, there were 107 endowed almshouses, and many other like institutions; the City Companies, it was computed, giving upwards of £75,000, yearly, away in charity. There were very many institutions for charitable, and humane purposes—mostly founded during the previous century—for the relief of widows and orphans, deaf and dumb persons, lunatics, relief of small debtors, the blind, the industrious poor, &c. And there were 1,600 Friendly Societies in the Metropolis, and its vicinity, enrolled under the Act, 33 George III. cap. 54. These had 80,000 members, and their average payments were £1 each per annum. For education in London, there were: 16 Inns of Court and Chancery, for education in the law. 5 Colleges, viz., Zion College, Gresham, Physicians, Doctors Commons, and Herald’s College. 62 Schools or public Seminaries, such as Westminster, the Blue Coat, St. Paul’s, Merchant Taylors, Charterhouse, &c., educating some 5,000 children. 237 Schools, belonging to the different parishes, educating some 9000. 3,730 Private Schools. ————— 4,050 Total Seminaries of Education. ═════ This does not include nearly twenty educational establishments such as the Orphan Working School, the Marine Society, Freemasons School, &c. And there were about the same number of Religious and Moral Societies, such as the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Religious Tract Society, Missionary Societies, &c.; besides a number of Sunday Schools—so that we see education, and philanthropy, were hard at work in the DAWN OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. THE END. INDEX. Abbot, Rt. Hon. Chas., elected Speaker, 47. Abbot’s, Mr., M. P., plan for census, 29. Abolition of Slave Trade, 132. ———— Debates on, 108, 127. “Academy of Ancient Music”, 366. Accident at Review in Hyde Park, 8. Account of Walcheren Expedition, 159-160. Acre, Battle of, 3. Act against cockfighting, 297. ———— to relieve Roman Catholics, 103. Actors, Child, 333. ———— Famous, 323. Addington Ministry on its last legs, 107. ———— Mr. Chancellor, presents message to George III., 46. Address of Sir Francis Burdett, 166. Admiralty Droits, 140. Age of dear books, 376. Agricultural Shows, 247.