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treme café; where 4dmifion into the coun- 
ty hofpital fhall be judged ineligible by 
the fterrardefies for the time being. 
2s. per week in any lingering difeafe, 
which may not confine the fick member 
to her bed, oblige her to leave her fervice, 
‘er wholly difable her, if married, from 
attending the care ofher family. ~/ 
The fum of ros, 6d. on the biyth of 
every child, if her circumftances aye fuch 
as to require this affiftance. 
1s. 6d. per week, if fhe be entered a 
patient in the hofpital, during her ftay 
there, tor wafhing and cloaths; and more- 
over, 
After having been a member 40. years, 
fhe thall be entitled to all the benefits of 
the inftitution, without farther contribu- 
tion, 1f the ftate of the fund fhall at that 
time be-fuch as to admit of it. 
Honorary members contribute 6s. per 
ann. by advance, into the public fund ; 
atid the like fum of 6s. annually into a 
fund intended likewife for the benefit of 
the fociety, but not fubjeét to particular 
laws, and for the difpofal of which the 
honorary members are not accountable 
to the fociety at large. Without hono- 
rary members, and indeed without a fe- 
parate fend, properly their own, one 
great object of the inftitution, which is to 
afford patronage in health, as well as 
pecuniary aid in fickneis, would not be 
ebtained. 
‘The number of honorary 
members at prefent is - 47 
Of benefitted ditto - : 80 
Cath in the general fund LATO Crue 
In the ladies fund - 5A te, 0 
The ladies fubferibe out of their own 
fund to the county hofpital, and to a dif- 
penfary eltablifhed in this city, to the 
end that they may always have recom- 
mendations for the ufe ot fick members. 
Betides the girls educated in the charity- 
{chools, each honorary member has the 
privilege, of recommending one every 
year, at-the quarterly meeting in Febru- 
ary, who has not been educated in either 
of them, provided fhe be in rood health, 
ef good character, and under 25 years of 
age. 
It muft not be concealed, that all the 
good effeéts hoped for from this inititu- 
tion have not yet been found to refult 
from it: many of the girls who have been 
admitted, even after they have. received 
great affiftance, and patronage of every 
kind, have from time to time ccafed to 
pay their fmall contribution, and have 
withdrawn’ themfees, This cireum- 
Mrs. Cappe on Femate Benefit Socteties. 
‘ftance, mortifying as it may be, will nge 
furprife, if it be remembered, that con- 
fiderable comprehenfion of mind is re- 
quired to relinquith a very fmall adyan- 
tace, if it be prefent, for the fake of a far 
greater good, if it be diftant ; and efpe- 
cially if it appear in any meafure contin- 
gent: and moreover, thet the reftriétions 
of a charity-fchool, if it be well regulat- 
ed, in themfelves however juit and necef- 
fary, and the very circumftance of the va- 
rious wants of: the children fo educated 
being regularly fupplied, muft neceflarily 
preclude both that acquaintance with the 
character of others, fo ufeful to put a 
young perfon on her guerd againit bad 
advice, and that experience of the wants 
and diftreffesy incident to extreme indi- 
gence, which the fame girl * would have 
acquired in the houfe ot her parents, or 
other needy relatives; fo that the very 
circumftance, which rendefs fome fort of 
patronage on leaving iuch an inftitution 
efpecially neceflary, creates, at the fame 
time, confiderable difficulty in adopting 
any which may prove efteciual. 
Tt may not be impertinent to add, that 
this total ignorance of fuman lite is a 
defet, which unavoidably muft attach 
itfelt to this mode of education, and af- 
furedly leffens the utility of it fo much, ” 
that, except in the cafe of orphans refcued 
from a parifh work-houfe, or of children, 
whofe parents are notorioufiy abandoned ; 
it may even become’ a queftion, how 
far it is defirable; notwithftanding the 
advantages which refult from thofe habits 
of fobriety, order, induitry and cleanli- 
nefs, which may, and ought to be gene- 
rated in fuch an inftitution. So far, I 
think, muft be granted, that wherever the 
parents are living, and are decent charac- 
ters, it is the bett charity, moft favoura- 
ble to the cultivation of the focial affec- 
tions, and moft conducive to the well being 
and happinefs of all parties, that they 
fhould have fuch aids judicioufly afforded 
them, as may enable them to educate theis 
children under their own roof. ; 
But to return from this digreffion. The 
honorary members of the fociety flatter 
themfelves, that when time fhall have 
fhewn the great advantage of being 2 
member, by the different fate in their 
progrefs through life, of thofe who have, 
and thofe who have not remained fuch, a 
conviction of its defirablenefs, fo forcible 
will be the refult, as to fupply the inabi- 

* This obfervation does not hold equally in 
refpeét to doys, who may be placed out to lit- 
tle trades much earlier. 
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