Some Remedies againjl the Evils of GIN and TEA. 2 4. 1 
rous experiment to enable the foundling hospital to fupport 
all the children under a certain age, of parents who cannot, or, 
being wicked, will not fupport their own offspring. If by the 
good conduct of that hofpital, we can introduce a less vicious 
race of working poor, the next generation will leffen the numbers 
in that hofpital, and in time the difeafe will cure itfelf. I can by 
no means think it advifeable to eftablifh foundling hofpitals in 
the counties throughout the kingdom, tho’ it may be prudent to 
eftablifh colonies of the London host it al in cheap counties, 
and by this means fupply the country with children in place of 
the men and women we draw annually from them. It is in 
London only we hear of infants being murdered, orexpofed to 
want and mifery. An illegal amour in a town or village, is ge- 
nerally attended with a voluntary or compulsive marriage, 
and the parties are induced to take care of their offspring, at 
leaft in the infant ftate, whatever accidents happen afterwards, 
which may reduce them to the choice or neceflity of throwing 
them on the parifh. The circumftances of London being fo very 
different, there feems to be the ftrongeft reafon derived from 
what we see and hear every day, for rendering our foundling 
hofpital capable of receiving all the children which are offered 
under a certain age. The foundling hofpital at Paris receives 
near four thoufand infants annually : if London contains five- 
eights as many more people as paris ; and if among the lower 
claffes we are more abandoned than the french; it follows, that 
tho’ in general we are not fo poor, our neceflity of an extend ve 
foundling hofpital is greater than theirs. Our limited and par- 
tial reception of infants, anfwers no good purpofe. I have told 
you that by our prefent method of putting children out to pa- 
rifh-nurfes, we a£l over the tragic fcene of herod’s cruelty : it 
would be a harfh word to call it murder, and yet experience 
I i teaches, 
