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willing, as foon as the names in the 
lifts of the feveral bookiellers fiiall 
amount in number to fifty; to meet at 
the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the 
Strand, on a day to be fixed by adver- 
tifement in the public papers, for the 
purpofe of confulting on the beft means 
of carrying into execution a plan for 
the relief of diftreffed proftitutes. 
N. B. The author of the Effay is de- 
firous not to appear as a prificipal mover 
of this charity, though determined that 
no private exertion on his part fhall be 
wanting to carry it into effect. He ven- 
tures, therefore, to fubmit the following 
regulations and refolutions to the conti- 
eration of thofe who may be willing to 
attend at fuch meeting. 
Firft, A chairman of the meeting mutt 
immediately be chofen. 
Secondly, Refolutions to the following 
efie& fhould be propofed by the chairman to 
the gentlemen prefent : 
I. Various cafes of mifery incident to 
common proftitutes-appear to be without the 
{cope, or beyond the reach of any exifting 
charitable inftitution. 
Il. To provide relief in cafes hereafter 
fpecified, let books be opened, and the fol- 
lowing bankers requefted to receive fubf{crip- 
tions ofany amount. (Bankers names.) 
IjI. Let committees of account and ma- 
hagement and of inquiry be appointed; as 
fuggefted in pages 46 and.47 of the Effay. 
= IV. Other regulations; as in page 47. 
V. When the fubfcription fhall amount to 
the fum of one hundred pounds, hand-bills 
fhall be printed, and circulated among thofe 
who are likely to require the affiftance of the 
charity. 
A very moderate contribution ma 
foon enable the fociety to hold out dona- 
tions of prefent relief to thofe whom, upon 
inquiry, they fhall find to have the beft 
founded claims to charitable affiftance ; 
fuch as, proper medical aid upon various 
occafions; the afiiftance of nurfes ; con- 
veniencies of habitation, food, and cloth- 
ing; pecuniary help, towards the ena- 
“ bling fome to return to their friends ; 
with premiums, by way of general in- 
ducement, to indigent relations who fhal] 
moft readily receive them, and encourage 
their reclamation. 
Let not modefty and chaftity fear to 
ftep torward in the caufe of humanity to 
the relief of thofe who have tranfgreffed 
their laws. Did they but know the tale 
of mifery which thefe unfortunate out- 
cafts have to unfold, even modefty and 
chafity would figh and would. acquit 
them. Befides, this fociety may not only 
hold out aid to the fallen, but may like- 
Propofed Charity....0n Sugar. 
[July 
wife interpofe a guardian arm between 
the falling and the bottom of the preci- 
pice; and not unfrequently, by weli- 
timed exertion, ftay and draw back fome, 
ere they have yet been driven by mifery 
and madnefs to the brink. ~ I am, Sir, 
Your humble Servant, 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magaxine: 
SIR, 
DO not know whether it be befide the 
- purpofe of your work, to fuggelt hints 
in the regulation of houfehold ceconomy. 
There aré few articles in more general 
ufe, or dearer than fugar ; and fugar, in 
its refined ftate, being now beyond the 
purchafe of poor families, they refort to a 
{pecies of ground fugar, for which they 
give a middle price, betwixt that of re- 
fined, and of raw {ugar in its foft fate; 
as it comes from the Weft Indies: This 
fpecies of fugar is pleafing to the eye, but 
not more valuable, being neither a more 
delicate nor a more powerful fweet, than 
foit fugar in its raw ftate ; yet it is fre- 
quently fold higher, after undergoing the 
proces through what it paffes, by two or 
three pence in the pound, than the fugar 
in the raw ftate of which it is made. 
The procefs by which the appearance of 
this fugar is improved is merely this: 
When brought from the fhip, it is put 
into a warm ftove, and dried, by which 
the water it contains is evaporated, and 
it is made to affume a brighter appear- 
ance. he water evaporated is very 
{mallin quantity, fo as little to affeét the 
weight, and yet this is the only impu- 
rity of which it 48 ftripped. When dry, 
it is put into a mill and ground by a very 
heavy ftone, which completely pulverifes 
it, and ftill improves the colour. Thus, 
with all its dirt, and all its molafles, it is 
fold to the confumer. 
Sugar, as it is brought in its foft ftate 
from the Weft Indies, confifts of four fab- 
ftances, water, with which it is charged in 
no great degree; dirt, which is either foil 
or pulverifed cane, which it contains in 
very large quantities, and an oil, which, 
when feparated, is called molaffes or trea- 
cle. This oil is a very powerful, but nota 
delicate, fweet; but it does not, in re{pect of 
price, fuftain its due rank among {weets : 
it is the cheapeft fweet we have applica- 
ble to general purpofes of {weets, and. 
though greatly flighted by the poor in 
this part of England, it is mvch ufed in 
Scotland in various ways as a fubftitute 
for fugar. The ground fugars of which 
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