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felved ‘fo advertife this fingular 
event in the veya In a let- 
_ter which he inferted, and which 
was figned with his own name,- he 
particularizes, in a mol affecting 
detail, the mifery of his country- 
men, and implores in their deco 
the generous compafiion of the Eng- 
lifh, on which thefe wretches had 
fo much relied when they left their 
native country. The efe& of this 
was incredible and be yond expecta- 
tion. 
. The morning papers are gene- 
oO ig 
rally printed at eight o’clock; by 
Mine a man arrives on vans age 
from one of the mof diftant parts 
of Weftminfter, and brings to Mr. 
Wafche! a bank note for 100]. fter- 
fing. The meflenger would not 
mention the donor, but it was at- 
terwards found to be the old coun- 
tefs of Chefterficld, who performed 
fo charitable an action. 
This might be called the earneft 
of the whole nation. It feemed to 
rain bank notes and guineas upon 
the good prieft. 
tendants were appointed to fupply 
them with neceflaries, as they them- 
felves were not able to buy them; 
phyficians and apothecaries were 
afigried, and nurfes and interpreters 
appointed to them: in a word, the 
wants of this deferted band were fa- 
tisfied, their forlorn fituation re- 
Moved, and they themfelves in- 
fpired with the fweet hope of better 
profpetts before the middle of that 
very day. 
In the mean time the fubfcrip- 
tions continued open, and there 
fever, perhaps, was fuch a general 
contribution. ‘There were but few 
wich people, of a certain rank, in 
all the kingdom, who did not aflift 
1 myfelf have 
Coifee houfes 
were opened for fubfcriptions, at- 
2g 
read the lift of thofe benefactors to 
my countrymen, and have counted 
more than twenty who gave a hun- 
dred pounds each, and fome even 
more. The fum total is unknown 
to me; it was, however, futhcient 
to entertain this numerous bedy of 
people, during five months, in 
London; at the end of that period 
they were carried to Carolina, ia 
veflels hired for the purpofe, and 
provided with proper neceflaries. 
‘hey had a very excellent, paflage 
to America, and received, at the 
inftant of their arrival, not only 
every thing neceflary for their efta- 
blifhment, but alfo the remainder 
of the money which had been col- 
le&ted for them. 
It may be imagined that the 
Germans, fettledin London, fhew- 
ed themfelves equally gerierous tu- 
wards their countrymen as the Engs 
lith.-Not only thofe,in eafy cir- 
cuimftances, but even opulent peo- 
ple, to whom the nation had con- 
fided the care of thefe unfortunate 
wretches, received money for their 
fervices out of the fund arifing from 
the fubscriptions, and charged at 
the higheft rate ! 
‘The prifons for confining debtors 
in England, are fach as might be 
expected ia'a nation which regards 
the powerful and facred rights of 
humanity. 
As it is extremely eafy to con- 
tract debts in England, it muft 
therefore neceflarily follow, that 
the gaols are always full of pri- 
foners. The pooréit people, pro- 
vided they are not common bee- 
gars, labour with the utmoft aflidu- 
ity to hire a {mall tenement, and 
become hou ekeepers, becaufe, befides 
the convenience refulting from it, 
there are certain privileges annexed 
to {uch a fituation, In confequence 
of 
