APPENDIXES TO THE ESSAYS ON ESTABLISH- 

 MENTS FOR THE POOR AND ON FOOD. 



APPENDIX No. I. 



Address and Petition to all the Inhabitants and Citizens 

 of Munich, in the Name of the real Poor and Dis- 

 tressed. 



(Translated from the German.) 



TOO long have the public honour and safety } 

 morality and religion, called aloud for the 

 extirpation of an evil, which, though habit has ren- 

 dered it familiar to us, always appears in all its horrid 

 and disgusting shapes, and whose dangerous effects 

 show themselves everywhere, and arc increasing every 

 day. 



Too long already have the virtuous citizens of this 

 metropolis seen with concern the growing numbers 

 of the beggars, their impudence, and their open and 

 shameless debaucheries ; yet idleness and mendicity 

 (those pests of society) have been so feebly counter- 

 acted, that, instead of being checked and suppressed, 

 they have triumphed over those weak attempts to 

 restrain them, and acquiring fresh vigour and activity 

 from success have spread their baleful influence far 

 and wide. 



What well-affected citizen can be indifferent to the 

 shame that devolves upon himself and upon his country, 



