gethlem Hospital. 23$ 



fcXchange, with the City of London, the present contracted 

 site of the hospital, for a piece of ground, containing nearly 

 twelve acres, 9itualed in Saint George's Fields; on which 

 £pot the unhappy Subjects of mental derangement will, in 

 addition to their former advantages, possess such superior 

 requisites of air and exercise as they have never yet enjoyed, 

 which are not only likely to add in a considerable degree to 

 their comfort, but also to accelerate their cure. The plan 

 of the ancient structure is very capable of improvement, 

 and has long inueed required it. The Governors therefore 

 have advertised for plans for the new building, and offered 

 premiums of jf .200 for the best, £.100 for the second, and 

 £•60 for ihe third best designs, in the full confidence of 

 being adequately assisted in their anxious desires to erect 

 an hospital which may be at once a monument of a bene*- 

 volent and enlightened age, and an honour to a great and 

 distinguished nation. — The present intention of the Go- 

 vernors is to erect a building capable of containing four 

 hundred patients, but not to confine themselves even to 

 tfyat enlarged number, if they shall be enabled, by ihe libe- 

 rality of the public, to proceed further in their design. — The 

 funds of the hospital, which are applicable to the purposes 

 of a new building, amount, however, at this time, to little 

 more than £.27,000, while the cost of a new hospital,, 

 upon the scale proposed, can hardly be estimated at a 

 smaller sum than £. J 00,000. — To effect, therefore, so de- 

 sirable a purpose as that in view, it will be obvious, that 

 nothing short of a liberal subscription on the part of the 

 public at large can suffice. The Governors have therefore 

 published an address, most earnestly entreating all corpo- 

 rate bodies, as well as individuals, throughout the kingdom, 

 to contribute, by their benevolence, more extensive means 

 of relief and cure, than have ever yet been afforded, to the 

 unfortunate subjects of the most afflicting malady with 

 which it has pleased the Almighty in his wisdom to visit 

 his creatures. Their appeal we are confident will not be 

 in vain, in a country whose greatest characteristic is its 

 noble and generous solicitude to alleviate the miseries, 

 administer to the .necessities, and heal the diseases of its 

 people. 



Subscriptions are received by Richard Clarke, Esq, 

 Chamberlain of London, (the Treasurer of Bethlem Hos- 

 pital), Bridge Street, Black- friars; and by most of the 

 banking-houses in London. 



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