242 Some Remedies againfi the Evils of GIN and TEA. 
teaches, that it is inevitable mortality to put children under the 
care of fuch perfons. The cafe may not be equally deplorable 
in all parishes •, but if a true and impartial account was laid be- 
fore the public, it is hard to fay, whether it would create greater 
indignation, sorrow, or wonder, at the vaft crouds which 
are hurried to an early grave. 
I have already had occafion to obferve to you, that the life of 
man is eftimated at 17 years ; tho’ in London, in general, 7 at 
lead; are computed to die out of 10, under 2 years of age. But 
in the country not 3 in 10 die ; and if proper care was taken to 
fend the children of the poor into the country, we may reckon 
out of 4000 born, one with another, near 2000 might reach to. 
the age of thirty-four. What a vaft acquifttion of ftrength 
would this be to the ftate, compared with the mortality of 163 
out of 174 within the age of two years ! The charity of pri- 
vate perfons, however extenfive, will never enable the found- 
ling hostital to receive all the infants, of a certain age, which 
are offered ; therefore I hope it will be agreeable to the wifdom 
and benevolence of the legiftature to fupport it. I hope alfo a 
law will be made to fubjedt every man, or w’oman, to be whip- 
ped at the cart’s-tail, who appears as a beggar, with children ; 
and that fuch children fhall, under proper directions, be deli- 
vered, as foundlings, by the churchwarden of the parifh, to the 
care of an hospital to be provided for that purpofe. Alfo to 
prevent the evil confequences to fociety of breeding up a race of 
beggars, it might be wilhed that all perfons under the age of 
ten, who are found bagging in the ftreets, fhould be conftdered 
as foundlings, and conveyed to fuch hofpital, where employ- 
ment might be provided for them, till they are fent into the world 
properly recommended. Adieu. I am yours, &c. L E T- 
