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trust, it seems to the Managers indubitable, that such an immediate and ample addition will be made to the £.200 (to which they have had so often occasion to refer,) as will not only effectually relieve the Charity Workhouse from its present vexatious and hurtful embarrassments, but will enable it to continue, with due effect, that beneficent and indispensible protection which it has so long afforded to the poor.

Such is the representation which the Managers have felt it their duty to prepare and lay before the Town Council. They are convinced the decision past as to its object will be dictated by an enlightened regard to all the bearings and obligations of official duty, as connected with the case. If the decision is unfavourable, no imputation of intentional error against those who form it will follow; but the Managers, in that event, will confide in their fellow-citizens, considering this paper as a proof, that neither the protracted difficulties of the Charity Workhouse, nor its ultimate ruin (if that shall take place,) can be ascribed to any culpable neglect, on their part, of its welfare. If the decision, on the contrary (as the Managers humbly hope it will be,) is favourable, the Town Council may congratulate themselves on doing an act which humanity and public expediency loudly demand, and which cannot fail to attract the approbation of the whole community over which they preside.

Signed, in name, and by appointment, of the Committee of Managers, GEO. H. BAIRD.

EDINBURGH, 18th Jan. 1812. At a meeting of the fifteen Managers, held here this day, the above memorial was received, read, and approved of, and the Preses authorised to subscribe the same; and order that it be transmitted to the Lord Provost

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5 Beg leave, through the medium of your Magazine, to lay before the Public the following account of an Institution which has existed in this place upwards of four years, but has hitherto been little known, except to a few, to whose exertions the country is indebted for this addition to her numerous benevolent establishments.

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The Sympathetic was originally intended to be an association of Shipmasters, sailing from this port, who could not find admission to the other establishments already existing in the place, owing to particular local regulations, connected with their management; but the plan has been extended, so as to admit not only ship-mas£.6160 18 6 ters belonging to any other port, but also landmen of every description; and should any of the members enter into the service of their country, all the privileges of the Society are continued to them on their paying an additional sum per quarter.

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The following abstract and statement, will shew generally the mode of management, and that the funds are increasing very fast.

Article I. Designates the Society the Sympathetic, and provides for the management of the Funds, and other matters, by appointing a Committee, to consist of a Preses, Treasurer, Secretary, and five other members, two of the latter to go out every year. The Preses, Treasurer, and Secretary, may be re-elected from year to year, so long as a majority of the society shall think proper.

II. Fixes four stated quarterly meetings, to be held on the first mondays of January, April, July and October, and points out a mode of keeping the books of the society, these books to lie on the table at the meetings for the inspection of the members.

III. Prescribes a mode of application for admission to the Society, by letter addressed to the Preses, to lie till next quarter-day, when the election is made by ballot, the person elected paying entry-money agreeably to the following table, and producing a certificate of his age.

Years. Money. 25... £.16, 16s. 26... 17, Os. 27... 17, 65. 28... 17, 10s. 29... 18, 3s. 30... 18, 12s. 31... 19, 32... 19, 10s. 19, 16s.

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33... 34... 20, 45. 35... 20, 10s. 36... 20, 18s. 37... 21, 5s.

Years. Money. 38...£.21, 15s. 39... 22, 4s. 40... 22, 18s. 41... 23, 10s. 42... 23, 15s. 43... 24, 11s. 44... 24, 18s. 45... 25, 5s. 46... 25, 12s. 47... 26, Os. 48... 26, 12s. 49... 27, Os. 50... 27, 18s. IV. Fixes the quarterly payment of Landmen at 20s, and Seamen at 30s. with fines in case of neglect. N. B. It is in contemplation to reduce the quarterly payments one half. V. In case any member enter his majesty's service by sea or by land, he continues to enjoy all the benefits of the society, on paying 40s. per quarter during the period of such service.

VI. Provides, that on the decease of a member, Five Pounds sterling shall be paid to his Widow in lieu of funeral charges.

N. B. Formerly this article allowed a member £.2 10s. on the Death of his Wife, and £.1 10s. on the death

of a child, which was discontinued, as none of the members were really in want in such cases.

VII. Provides, that upon the death of a member, his widow shall be paid Twenty Pounds sterling per annum, and that either quarterly, half yearly, or yearly, as she shall think proper;

and should such widow marry again, it empowers the managers to expend Ten Pounds per annum, in educating any children that may exist of the first marriage.

VIII. Any member being incapable of going about his ordinary employment, or being prisoner of war, to be paid Twenty Pounds sterling per annum during such illness or capti

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IX. Νο to be lent on money personal security, nor any sums to be voted out of the funds towards any other institution, public erection, or for any political, civil, or religious purpose whatever, but applied solely of the association. to the purpose X. Points out the Manner in which the Treasurer is to intromit with the Funds.

XI. Any new regulation or byelaw, to be proponed one quarter-day, and voted upon the next.

Statement of the Funds of the Sympathetic Society, from its institution 19th September 1808 to 31st December 1812.

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of whom, the original promoters of the institution have the satisfaction to see in some degree provided for from its funds, and I feel confident it must yield you peculiar pleasure to communicate to the public, how an undertaking so laudable has progressed.

At a general meeting held on Monday the 4th instant, the following members were appointed Managers for the current year:

Messrs John Dryden, Preses.

Alexander Taylor, Treasurer.
John C. Peat, Secretary.
A. Neilson Lamb,
James Wright, junior

Francis Ord,

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General View of the Principles of

PANTOMIME.

Continued from last vol. page 928.

N the affection of desire, the body IN is impelled towards the desired object,

*One of these, Captain James Blyth, of the smack Hazard, lost his life in attempting to prevent his vessel from receiving damage in the river Thames, having got entangled in a coil of the cable, which nearly cut him in two. The Edinburgh and Leith shipping company, in whose employ he was, with a generosity which does them great honour, have allowed his widow a sum yearly,

equal to the annuity she enjoys from the Sympathetic.

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