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tory for work: the other, an institution for 

 small loans of money to poor people. 



Whatever work is brought to the repository 

 is purchased, without exposure of the names of 

 the industrious parties by whom it was done, 

 affording by this mode an opportunity to the 

 diligent or laborious, of augmenting their in- 

 come by their own exertions, without incurring 

 obligations to any one. To those who would 

 suffer rather than supplicate, what a delightful 

 resource is this repository ! 



The misery that is sedulously concealed is 

 often more entitled to compassion, than bodily 

 afflictions presented to public commiseration 

 without compunction. 



I am so extremely pleased with the Charitable 

 Loan Society, that I cannot omit subjoining 

 the particulars of this valuable institution. 



" Londonderry Charitable Loan was founded 

 in January, 1809, the fund being established by 

 the produce of two charity sermons ; the first 

 by the Lord Bishop of Derry, in the cathedral, 

 at which was collected upwards of two hundred 

 and fifty pounds ; the second, in the Roman 

 Catholic chapel, in consequence of which, up- 



