FUND. 
ually applicable to the reduction of the debt of Great 
Biting i. the 
“agar taal ftock i in the aia i ‘cents, 
 °6,629,700/. fto ck in in the ent: 
the ie fund, 
In the courfe of the laft five years about 140 millions 
have been added to the capital of the public debt, which, 
perma 
other pace are 
means, in aes with the meafure of ‘unding 
illi without any provifion 
» fhould the prefent. de- 
folating | war be ever fueceeded by an actin ad peace, will 
neither be relieved ange ‘Y 
weight ht of its new burthen a ROE re ‘it ou 
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whole of what oy had then redeemed * 
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7 a 3 who bequeathed to the eftablifhmen 
ae . aed 
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ile account of the Com- 
to. 
s fo xed with the corporation 
* by which the fociety en- 
from their fubfcribing 
two = Lye at St. Paul's 
cathedral, in coniideration 
mage 
urpotes. 
As ofual and noe income arifing from 
i fubteripts ions and benefits, the fociety has bee honoured: 
with a few benefactions in the way of legacies, of "whic ch 
the folowing is . account: 
n 1733, 100/. by Mr. Rojere, one of its; pramliiondl 
members. 
In ise gol. by Mr. Waldron, 
In 1782, sol. by Mr. James Mathias, an ee fub- 
criber, ils an ain bafs voice; whofe erformance as 
a iletans at the Crown and Anchor concerts was lon ng 
red. 
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But the moft confiderable eich which the fociety ever 
received was from the admirable an elise Mr. 
perform at the co 
- et aad illuftrious mufician, whofe works had been‘th 
chief attractions at their Anite benefits, the fund received 
an addition to their pital from the noblemen ‘and- 
baronets who planned an ‘diredied this extraordinary cele- 
bration, 6coo/. 
t their annual ane the oe oe pe 
fiber to.the charity, who are 
d to attend at a pee dobre ant 
es of the theatre ; the whole bufinefs ae har a by 
; sande it feems as 
abu, embezzlemen nt, or ee régu ulated with more 
cate, vay y» and economy ; or have its income. fo imme- 
erived . from the ah and talents of its own 
a fmalt falary to’ the fer etsy, oa another to 
there is no lucrative - employment vara Sa to 
that the whole produce of benefits 
and fubferiptions is nett, and “lear of all ded uch of OF 
dr awback. 
” Though the firft fubfcription from profel onal’ wHiemibeke 
oe ‘only half-a- crown a quarter; in 1766. the.fum of. 20 
F thillings 8 per annum = ct uired of. all aa Baa 
inftead © * tén.' . And th old’ members then agreed, almo 
ince that prt i : 
