Candid remarks on Mr. Hanway's Candid historical account of the Foundling Hospital, and a more useful plan humbly recommended in a letter to a Member of Parliament / [David Stansfield].

  • Stansfield, David, active 18th century
Date:
1760
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Credit: Candid remarks on Mr. Hanway's Candid historical account of the Foundling Hospital, and a more useful plan humbly recommended in a letter to a Member of Parliament / [David Stansfield]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    e! We ie Be Py on a careful Infpetion to be one of thofe f fool 2 é which (Mr. H. fays p. 40) the Nation i is % sex ah run , into, Why fhou’d i it not be gently and peaceably empty and every unneceflary Alarm banith’d? sh : 3 Thofe gituly. Honourable erp worthy, Patriots who ~ headed this inquiry are humane Men, ful of Public She ful of Private Virtue, and ful of the moft gene- ” i 2 s F : ° o* P ; ° ffion to their Suffering Country ; watching ihn Aveages ‘which might lead to deftruction, . leaft, | while the extream parts of the Body Politic are flourifhing, a} Viper fhou’d be poifening i its, Vitals, or, whilft his Ma- > jetty’ s ‘Arms are gathering Strength, Riches, and Glory - from abroad, af, H fhou’d be finewing, Sad wile: Po- _verty, nd: Depopulation at ‘home. They are, unaw’d by Pp wer, unbias’d by Intereft, unprejudic’d by, Cuftom, aiianced by a / Mob Popularity 3 and all good Men, in liew of ae alarm’d at their i inquiries, wil rejoice to on under ‘their Propo tnd wil think them ‘worthy of their uitelbe confidence, as wel as 5 deferving of their heft Praife a ON ae ane t oa a ‘hot improbable but upon a more frie (eh ie we Plan of the F. HA. Laeger ae foun i ied ey i) ‘ > ae : % | . eae : ae rng eA 3 7+ af eae bot ,