the Poor in Bavaria. 267 



reward was offered for each beggar they should arrest 

 and deliver over to the civil magistrate. The guard of 

 the police was likewise directed to be vigilant ; and the 

 inhabitants at large, of all ranks and denominations, 

 were earnestly called upon to assist in completing a 

 work of so much public utility, and which had been so 

 happily begun.* In an address to the public, which 

 was printed and distributed gratis among the inhabi- 

 tants, the fatal consequences arising from the preva- 

 lency of mendicity were described in the most lively 

 and affecting colours, and the manner pointed out in 

 which they could most effectually assist in putting an 

 end to an evil equally disgraceful and prejudicial to 

 society. 



As this address (which was written with great spirit, 

 by a man well known in the literary world, Professor 

 Babo) gives a very striking and a very just picture of 

 the character, manners, and customs of the hordes of 

 idle and dissolute vagabonds which infested Munich 

 at the time the measure in question was adopted, and 

 of the various artifices they made use of in carrying 

 on their depredations, I have thought it might not be 

 improper to annex it at full length in the Appendix 

 No. I. 



This address, which was presented to all the heads 



* Upon this occasion I must not forget to mention a curious circumstance 

 which contributed very much towards clearing the town effectually of beggars. 

 It being found that some of the most hardened of these vagabonds were at- 

 tempting to return to their old practices, and that they found means to escape 

 the patrols by keeping a sharp look-out and avoiding them, to hold them more 

 effectually in check, the patrols sent out upon this service were ordered to go 

 without arms. In consequence of this arrangement, the beggars, being no 

 longer able to distinguish who were in search of them and who were not, saw a 

 patrol in every soldier they met with in the streets (and of these there were 

 great numbers, Munich being a garrison town), and froin thenceforward they 

 were kept in awe. 



