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been admitted members of the institution ; but it hat, 

 for many yean past, been set apart for the widows of 

 such seamen as have attained the age of fifty. In 1787, 

 the Trinitv-Iiuu-e built an hospital for decayed * 

 and their wives ; and in the same year, they founded a 

 marine school, for prepariiig boys for the sea service. 

 Thirty- six boys are now educated at this seminary, 

 each member of the corporation appointing one. They 

 continue at school three years, and are annually clothed 

 in a neat uniform. The present house was erected in 

 1 J . and is of a quadrangular form, inclosing a spa- 

 cious area. The different apartment-, and the curiosi- 

 ties which they contain, are well worthy of being exa- 

 mined. 



The Charter- hou*e Hospital wa* founded by Michael 

 de la Pole in 1381, fur the support of poor pensioners, 

 under the superintendance of a ma-Ur. It is a plain 

 building, with two projecting wings, and is built of 

 handsome brick covered with blue slate. It contains 

 44 apartments, well fitted up for the accommodation of 

 the ) Allowed 3s 6d. per week each, 



besides cii.il, turve^, and occasional payments. The cha- 

 pel, which is spacious ami neat, is in the body of the 

 buil'ling. The minor charities are, Lister'sJ-foepita], 

 for f ]<NI of 12 paupers; Gregg's Hospital; 



Crowle's Hospital, for 12 paupers; Watson's Hospital, 

 for 14 po..r , Gee's Hospital; Harrison's Hospital; and 

 RaU 



The Charity Hall or Work House wat established in 

 the iin Ml. The houte is decent 



and commodious, and hat a houte of correction adjoin- 

 ing to it. 



The public charities tupported by voluntary contri- 

 bution arr vtry numerous. The Gei.tral Infirmary 

 wsi t t.i. I...V d in 1 most liiieral and hu- 



mane principles. I is of brick, ornamented 



at and handsome. It is situated 



in a t , and can accommodate seventy in-pa- 



tients. Tlie ranges of wards open into a long, ule, 

 and .> the purjxje of obtaining a perfect 



ventilation. The total ti'inilieruf patient* admitted be- 

 twe, 16 it 15,129. of whom 11,2(8 have 



been cured, tod 1'>:J greatly relieved. The total miui- 

 f persons vaccinated up to January J, l,v 



irity appears to have been etta- 



- patient 



ince the 5th April I8O2. i id the num- 

 ber of children bom .*!. Tlw Hull Female 



-y wat opened in July l-ll. More than K*i 

 .ve been u nd a (Treat propnrt 



-orr.l to their I'rieiiiU. T.'ielluil 

 ntary has tn-en recently Ubli. li- 

 ed, .1 n me Society for of persons 

 apparently dead was founded in I SOU 



Th. o/of Hull , founded and en- 



. of Ely 



mad one of t >r r~- .'and. 



uMjl it a free institu:ion. t'onncted in 1734 

 1 ' id tin- 



a* the poet, for the e-lu. ., i Mrholara. Coggan't 



Chanty School rdocatet poor frnule childreii; Be- 



I- in Sakhoas* 

 . curnist of two 

 .tainlng 30. and four Sun- 

 >. The buildings are capaciout, and 

 r tlin '>:*) boys and I.Vi girla are educated 

 here un Bt II and IJUKU-I. r' system. 

 The other public building* at Hull, are the citadel, 



La 



da; 

 da; 



th exchange, the custom-house, tlie theatre, the gaol, 

 the Hull subscription library, &c. The citadel, intend- ^ 

 ed for the defence of the harbour and town, is situated 

 on the east bank of the river. The ancient castle, call- 

 ed the Magazine, is * mere storehouse for arms and am- 

 munition. A battery of '21 guns faces the Humber, and 

 the embrasures on the mounds are well furnished with 

 cannon. The citadel is surrounded with a ditch palisa- 

 doed in the middle. The garrison generally consists of a 

 few companies of invalids. The exchange was opened on 

 the 1st of January 179*. It is a brick building on a most 

 substantial plan, with a spacious flagged area in front of it. 

 The public subscription news room is above the ex- 

 change. The custom-house is a spacious and hand- 

 some building, situated in White Friar Gate. The the- 

 atre, erected in 1809, ' * lrge building in Humber 

 Street. The present gaol, which contains very healthful 

 accommodations was erected in const qm nee of an act of 

 parliament pa*>ed in 178!). The Hull .-ul)M-ript:on li- 

 brary w*s instituted Dec. <j. 1775 ; and the foundation 

 stone of the present building in Parliament Mrect, wat 

 laid on the '_'i.-t of June 1,-v <). The library pos.-e*set a 

 spacious reading-room, which is open to the subscriber* 

 every day. The collection of modern liook i- excellent, 

 and the number nf subscriber* is nearly 500. 



The avenue from the market-place to the I lumber 

 wat widened sum* time ago, by removing the guildhall, 

 on the site of which the nxwt elegant and well ventila- 

 ted shamblet . 1 he east end of 

 Trinity church it thus exposed to the market- place, m 

 the centre of which is a beautiful rquolriaii statue of 

 King William III. erected in 1734 by subscription, and 

 execute! by Mr Sheemaker. 



Hull may be considered at one of the first commer- 

 cial towns in the united kingdom. It carries on a great 

 intercourse with the Baltic, and end an immense num- 

 ber of ships annually to the whale fralu 



The vt dock, which was originally intended to re- 

 ceive all the shipt engaged in the trade of Hull, wat 

 begun in virtue of an act of parliament passed in 177 V. 

 The foundation stone was laid on the l!fth Oct. 1775, 

 and the whole wat completed in four yean instead of 

 seven, at required by the act. Government gave a grant 

 of the ground, and of 15,000. It occupies the place 

 where the w*llt and ramparts once stood, and it enters 

 immediately from the river Hull, about SOO yards from 

 its mouth. It is 70O yards long, 85 wide, 2^ deep, and it 

 canalile of containing 130 vessels of 300 tons. Inclu- 

 ding the wharfs and quays, it covert an area of 13 acres, 

 the area of the dock being 48,188 square yards, and 

 that of the quay 1 7, +7" I he subscribers are incorpo- 

 rated under the title of the " Dock Company at King- 

 atuo-upon-HulL" The number of shares wat original- 

 ly 120; but acts were patted in 1802 and ISO.'), em- 

 powering the Company to raise them to 1 80. The mo- 

 ney arising from this increase in the numlier of share*, 

 amounting to I'.VJ.VKI, was appropriated to the con- 

 struction of another wet dock, called the H umber Dock. 



The foundation stone of the Humber I>ock wai laid 

 on the 13th April 1807. ami it wat completed in 1 809, 

 at the ex pence of jEittO.OOO. The area of the duck it 

 7 acres and 18 perches, and that of the road and whi.rft 

 it 3 acres and 33 perches, amounting in all to 10 ncret 

 1 rood and 1 1 perches. It opens into the Humlx-r by 

 a lock, which will admit a fitly gun ship, and which it 

 crorted by an iron bridge. By extending the dock a 

 little farther to the north, to the extremity of White 

 Fr ar Gate, the old town may be completely insulated. 

 Hull possesses also several dry docks for repairing vtt- 



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