750 Proposals for Forming 



the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor the 

 general result of these consultations, and the unani- 

 mous desire of the gentlemen who assisted at them 

 that means might be devised for making an attempt to 

 carry the scheme proposed into execution. 



The gentlemen of the committee agreed with me 

 entirely in the opinion I had taken the liberty to ex- 

 press, that the Institution which it was proposed to 

 form would be too conspicuous, and too interesting and 

 important, to be made an appendix to any other exist- 

 ing establishment, and consequently that it must stand 

 alone, and on its own proper basis ; but, as these gen- 

 tlemen had no direct communication with any persons, 

 except with the members of their own Society, they 

 appointed a committee, consisting of eight persons, 

 from their own body, to confer with me on the subject 

 of my plan.* 



I had the honour to meet this committee on this 

 business on the 3istof January, at the house of Richard 

 Sulivan, Esq., where a plan I had previously drawn up, 

 for forming the Institution in question, was read and 

 examined, and its principles unanimously approved; 

 but, as some of the gentlemen present were of opinion 

 that the plan entered too much into detail to be sub- 

 mitted to the public in the beginning of the business, 

 I undertook to revise it, and to endeavour to accommo- 

 date it to the wishes of the committee. 



Having made such alterations in it as I thought 

 might satisfy the committee, I sent a corrected copy 

 of it to them, accompanied by the following letter: 



* The gentlemen chosen were the Earl of Winchelsea, Mr. Wilberforce, 

 The Rev. Dr. Glasse, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Richard Sulivan, Mr. Colquhoun, Mr. 

 Parry, and Mr. Bernard. 



