The following REQUEST to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was directed to be read by the Secretary: TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, PRINCE OF WALES, DUKE OF CORNWALL AND ROTHSAY, &c. &c. &c. "The humble request of the Princes, Prelates, Noblemen, and others, "who have heretofore served the office of Steward of the Feast of "the Sons of the Clergy, "Sheweth, "That, about the year 1650, during the Great Rebellion, the dis"tresses of the ejected Clergy were such as to cause certain friends to "the Establishment to enter into an Association, in order to relieve "those distresses in part by making a provision for their children. "That, from that time to the present, the Society so established has "been kept up-and that it has been honoured by the patronage and "protection of many distinguished Characters in Church and State, "and by the gracious favour of her late Majesty, QUEEN ANNE. "That the distresses of the inferior Clergy, from the necessary pressure of the times, and depreciation of money, have increased in a very considerable degree, at the moment when the same causes may be apprehended to operate in diminution of the subscriptions " and benefactions. 66 "That this inconvenience would long since have been more deeply " and severely felt, had not the Royal Family, from the Year 1798 to "the present time, (with the exception of a single year, in which the "collection fell short nearly £400 of the preceding year,) graciously "deigned to take the Charity under their protection, by serving in "their own persons from year to year, as STEWARDS, to the great "benefit and advantage of the Society. "That the last of the Royal Line having graciously officiated in the preceding year, and the Charity, (with more petitions than ever were presented at any former time, and with cases of more aggravated dis"tress) having no prospect of affording adequate relief, but from recur"rence to the bounty, patronage, and protection of your Royal High"ness's August Family, the Stewards beg leave to lay at your Royal Highness's feet their humble and dutiful request, that Your Royal Highness will be pleased, for a second time, to suffer your illustrious "name to be placed at the head of the Stewards for the present year." Signed, in behalf of the Meeting, January 17, 1807. 66 66 C. CANTUAR. "It was moved and seconded, by his Royal Highness the Duke of "Sussex, and his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and car"ried unanimously in the affirmative, that the said request be adopted -and that it be presented to His Royal Highness the Prince of "Wales by the Most Reverend the President, and the Right Honour"able the Vice-President-and that his Royal Highness the Duke of "Sussex and the Duke of Gloucester, be requested graciously to attend the Officers of the Charity on the occasion. "That the humble, dutiful, and cordial expressions of gratitude from "the Stewards be laid at the feet of their Royal Highnesses the Princes, "for their gracious condescension and uniform support of this Charity. "That in particular, his Royal Highness Augustus Frederick, Duke "of Sussex, Steward for the year 1806, be humbly requested to accept "the dutiful acknowledgments of the Stewards of the Sons of the Clergy, "for suggesting the idea of the present meeting, for carrying it into "effect, and for condescending to conduct the business of the day. "That the Treasurer and Secretary be directed to pay their duty at "Carlton-House, in order to inquire at what time His Royal Highness "will be pleased to receive the deputation of the Stewards, in order to "lay before His Royal Highness their humble request in behalf of "the Charity. "That the Treasurer and Secretary be ordered to be in attendance "at Carlton-House, on such day as His Royal Highness shall be pleased to appoint for receiving the request of the Stewards." Signed, C. CANTUAR. STOCK IN THE FUNDS. Belonging to this Charity, in the names of the President, and Vice President of the Corporation for the Relief of poor Widows and Children of Clergymen, viz. £. s. d. 500 0.0 3457 7 0 3457 In the 3 per Cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities. ... 2079 14 1 359 10 10 125 0 0 5 per ann. The Dividends on which are annually added to the Collection made at Merchant-Tailor's Hall. FEAST OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY. THE Collections both at St. Paul's Cathedral and Merchant-Tailor's Hall, are appropriated to the apprenticing of the Sons and Daughters of the necessitous Clergy; the whole of the expences, at both these places, being defrayed by the Stewards: and although the primary Object of the STEWARDS of this excellent Charity has ever been to afford Relief to the Orphan Children of the Clergy, by granting them Sums to put them out Apprentices, in Situations of Credit and Respectability, yet the Benefits of the Institution are not altogether withholden from the Children of necessitous and deserving Clergymen, although their Parents be living. The Committee, to whom the Superintendence and Management of the Charity are entrusted, have to regret that their Funds, liberally as they are supported by the public, are still very inadequate to the various Cases of Distress brought before them. Inner Temple, June, 1826. J. H. MARKLAND, Benefactions in Aid of the Funds of this Charity, are received by the Treasurer, and at the First Fruits Office, Temple. F INCORPORATED CLERGY ORPHAN SOCIETY. Under the Patronage of His Majesty. PRESIDENT, THE LORD BISHOP OF LONDON. A SOCIETY of Stewards and Subscribers for MAINTAINING and EDUCATING POOR ORPHANS OF CLERGYMEN till of age to be put APPRENTICE, was formed in the Year 1749. The Establishment happily increasing as it became more generally known, has now attained a considerable degree of prosperity; and a spacious and healthy Mansion has within the last few Years been erected in the neighbourhood of the Regent's Park, for the reception of 160 Children to be clothed, maintained, and educated; and it cannot be doubted but that the same liberal Support will be continued to it, even with additional Assistance, when it is known that such is still wanting to enable the Society to afford full relief to all the Objects intended to be benefited by it. This Society, since its Institution, has received into its Schools (from the several Counties of England and Wales) more than 600 Children of both Sexes; most of whom have been placed out as Apprentices to useful employments, and are thereby provided with the means of becoming serviceable to themselves and to the Community. The number at present on the Establishment owing to the inadequacy of the fund, does not exceed 100, and the painful necessity of passing over applications of the most urgent distress recurs at almost every election *. SUBSCRIPTIONS and BENEFACTIONS to this humane and excellent Institution are thankfully received for the Treasurers, the Rev. Archdeacon CAMBRIDGE, and JOSHUA WATSON, Esq. at Messrs. Drummond's, Charing Cross; by the Rev. GEORGE A. E. MARSH, Secretary, Green Street, Grosvenor Square, and by the Collector, Mr. Stretton, No. 67, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. • Extract from the Charge of the Bishop of London, 1818, in which his Lordship justly ascribes "this failure of support to the general ignorance of the necessities, perhaps of the existence of this charitable Institution." Printed by R. GILBERT, St. John's-square, London. |