_For punishing Offenders_.
EDUCATION.
1st. For Education.
16 Inns of Court and Chancery, for educating Students to the profession of the Law, &c. &c.
5 Colleges--viz. One for the improvement of the Clergy, London Wall; one for Divinity and Astronomy, called Gresham College; one for Physicians, Warwick Lane; one for the study of Civil Law, Doctors-Commons; and the Heralds College.
62 Schools, or public Seminaries; the princ.i.p.al of which are Westminster School, Blue-coat School or Christ"s Hospital, St. Paul"s, Merchant Taylors, Charter-house, St. Martin"s School, &c. &c. &c. where about 5000 young persons are educated.
237 Schools belonging to the different Parishes; where about 9000 male and female Children are educated in Reading, Writing, and Accompts.
3730 Private Schools, for all the various branches of male and female Education; including some for Deaf and Dumb.
---- 4050 Seminaries of Education.
_The following Schools seem to deserve particular Enumeration; though probably there are many others which might equally deserve notice:--_
For Education.
1 Asylum for poor friendless, deserted girls, under twelve years of age, Vauxhall Road 1758
2 Orphan Working-School, for Children of Dissenters, City Road.
3 Philanthropic Society, St. George"s Fields, for children of criminal parents, and young delinquents.
4 Freemasons" School, for Female Orphans, St.
George"s Fields 1788
5 Marine Society, for educating poor dest.i.tute boys to the Sea, in Bishopsgate-street 1756
6 British or Welsh Charity School, Gray"s Inn Lane 1718
7 French Charity School, Windmill-street, Tottenham Court-Road 1747
8 School for Soldiers" Girls, at Chelsea, supported by Ladies 1709
9 Neal"s Mathematical School, for teaching Navigation, &c. to poor children, King"s Head Court, Gough-Square, Fleet-street 1715
10 School for Children of the Clergy; the Boys at _Thirsk_, Yorkshire, the Girls at _Lisson-Green_, Paddington.--Secretary, J. Topham, Esq.
No. 5, Gray"s Inn Square 1749
11 Day-School of Industry, for Boys and Girls, Paradise-street, Mary-le-bone 1791
12 Another, No. 68, Edgware-Road, for Girls 1784
13 Ladies" Charity School, King-street, Snow Hill 1702
14 Walworth Female Charity School.
15 Saint Anne"s Society, hitherto at Lavenham, Suffolk, about to be removed to Camberwell, for Boys and Girls, (extended in 1733 and 1791) 1709
16 Grey Coat Hospital, Artillery Ground, Westminster.
17 Green Coat Hospital, Ditto.
RELIGION AND MORALS.
2. For promoting Religion and good Morals.
1 The Society for giving effect to his Majesty"s proclamation against Vice and Immorality 1787
2 The Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, Bartlett"s Buildings, Holborn 1699
3 The Society for propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Dean"s Yard, Westminster 1701
4 The Society for promoting Religious Knowledge, by distributing books among the poor.--Secretary, Mr. Watts, Founder"s Hall, Lothbury 1715
5 The Society for promoting Charity Schools in Ireland, Merchant Seaman"s Office.
6 The Society for Religious Instruction to the Negroes in the West Indies 1793
7 The Society for preventing Crimes, by prosecuting Swindlers, Sharpers, and Cheats; Gough-Square, Fleet-street 1767
8 British Society for the Encouragement of Servants, No. 27, Hay-market 1792
9 Society for giving Bibles to Soldiers and Sailors, No. 427, Oxford-street 1780
10 Dr. Bray"s Charity for providing parochial Libraries, No. 5, Ave-Maria Lane.
11 Society for Relief of poor pious Clergymen 1788
12 Queen Anne"s Bounty for the Augmentation of small Livings of Clergymen.--Secretary, R.
Burn, Esq. Duke-street, Westminster 1703
13 Sunday Schools, in various parishes.
14 Sunday School Society, for giving Bibles, &c.
and otherwise furthering the purposes of Sunday Schools.--Sec. Mr. Prestill, No. 47, Cornhill 1785
THE ARTS.
3. For learning, and the useful and fine Arts.
1 Royal Society, incorporated for promoting useful Knowledge;--_Inst.i.tuted_ 1663