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which are founded on reafons’partly 
jot, and partly i imaginary, gave an 
epportunity toa German gentleman 
to form a very fingular {cheme. 
The name'of this projector, and 
his intentions, are. ftiil unknown; 
the arts alfo which he ‘prattifed to 
put in execution fuch a, well-con- 
certed plan, are equally obfeure ani 
ds, however, certain that a common. 
genius durit never imagine, far ie{s 
be able to put in execution, an en- 
terprife of thisnature. Inthe year 
1705, he went to England at the 
head of S00 adventurers, confilting 
of men, women, and children, whom 
he had collected in the Palatinate, 
Franconia, and Suabia, by promif- 
ing them that they would be much 
more happy in the Englih colonies. 
On their arrival at the port of 
London, this fingular man difap- 
peared, and has never ‘fince been 
. heard cf. 
At once miferable and difappoint- 
ed, thefe unfortunate wretches, nei- 
ther knowing the language, nor be- 
ime acquainted with any of the in- 
babinmnts; and with only a few rags 
to cover them, were entirely bewil- 
dered. in that extenfive - capital. 
Withost an afylum, without even 
bread for their children, who afked 
for it with the moft Piercing cries, 
they knew not to whom they could 
addrefs themfelves. 
In hopes of a lefs cruel deftiny, 
they lay down in the open air, in 
the midit of thofe ftreets neareit to 
the wharf where they had been land- 
ed. In every other city, éven in 
Paris itfelf, the unexpected arrival 
ofa colony of eight hundred per- 
fons, would have been talked of 
otes where, and proper meafures 
taken accordingly: but the landing 
of {uch a numerous body was for a 
long time unknown in London, 
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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1790. 
The inhabitants, indeed, of that 
part of the town, and allo the paf- 
fengers, were’ greatly aftonifhed at 
the appearance of this fingular 
groupe, who bewailed their misfor- 
tunes in an unknown Janguage ; but 
not being able to difcover the caufe, 
they gave themfelves but little con- 
cern on the fubject. 
Two days pafied in this manner, 
and theie poor people remained ex- 
pofed to the inclemency of the ele- 
ments, and the cravings of hunger, 
Some died for want,-on the third 
day. Their mifery was now at the 
extreme, for their arrival was un- 
known any where. elfe than in this 
little corner of the fuburbs: not a 
fingle word of it had tran{pired ei- 
ther in the city or Weftminiter. 
The inhabitants in the neighbour- 
heod were not, however, unfeeling 
{peftators of fo many calamities : 
they aided them as faras they were 
able; but what are the feeble fuc- 
cours of poverty at fuch.a crifis?- 
The bakers were accuftomed to fend 
their fervants every morning loaded 
with bafkets of bread, which they 
diitributed according .to the direc. 
tions of their mafters. One of thefe 
happening to pafs near the place 
where thele emigrants were encamp- 
ed, heard that they had heen fe- 
veral hours without any fubfiftence, 
“ If itis fo,” fays he, at the fame 
time placing his pannierin the midit 
of them, “ our cuftomers mutt have 
“« patience to-day ; were my mafter 
« to lofe them all, he would not’ be 
« angry. J will,” added he, “ aid 
«« thefe poor creatures, if I pay for 
“ it out of my own wages.’”— 
truft that the behaviour of this man 
does not need a commentary. 
Tne Reverend Mr. Wafchel, a 
clergyman of the German church, 
who lived near to them, at laft re- 
folved 
