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the modest object of real distress but to retire dispirited 

 and hide himself in the obscurity of his cottage, there to 

 languish in misery, whilst the bolder beggar consumes 

 the ill-bestowed gift in mirth and riot ? And yet the 

 charitable donor flatters himself that he has performed 

 an exemplary duty ! 



We earnestly entreat every citizen and inhabitant of 

 this capital, each in his respective station, no longer to 

 countenance mendicity by such a misapplication of their 

 well-meant charity ; contributing thus to augment the 

 fatal consequences of the evil itself, as well as to impede 

 the relief of the really necessitous. 



We are firmly persuaded that, by pointing out to. our 

 fellow-citizens a method by which they may exercise 

 their benevolence towards the indigent and distressed 

 in a meritorious manner, we shall gratify their pious 

 zeal and humanity, and at the same time essentially 

 promote the honour and safety of the state, and the 

 interests of sound morality and religion. 



And this is the sole object of the Military Work- 

 house, which has been instituted by the command of 

 His Electoral Highness, where, from this time forward, 

 all who are able to work may find employment and 

 wages, and will be clothed and fed. There will the 

 really indigent find a secure asylum, and those un- 

 fortunate persons who are a prey to sickness and 

 infirmity, or are worn out with age, will be effectually 

 relieved. 



We beg you not to listen to the false representations 

 which may, perhaps, be made to calumniate this insti- 

 tution, by putting it on a level with former imperfect 

 establishments. Why should not an institution pros- 

 per at Munich which has already been successful in 



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