PHILANTHROPIST: OR REPOSITORY FOR HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS CALCULATED TO PROMOTE TIE COMFORT AND HAPPINESS OF MAN. .....dicam nunc quid homini tribuendum sit: quanquam id ipsum quod homini tri- Deus, qui cæteris animalibus sapientiam non dedit, naturalibus ea munimentis VOL. VII.-FOR 1819, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, Printers' Court, Shoe Lane: SOLD BY LONGMAN, HURS, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATER- AND HARVEY, GRACECHURCH-STREET; AND W. PHILLIPS, GEORGE-YARD, LOMBARD-STREET. i PAGE. REPORT of the Proceedings of the Committee on Indian Con- cerns to the Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends at Extract from a Letter, dated Baltimore, 7th mo. 24, 1816. Evan Thomas, Jun. to Richard Phillips, East-street, Red Lion- Account of the Indians near Halifax, Nova Scotia Annual Report of The Prudent Man's Friend Society at Bristol, The First Annual Report of "The Wandsworth Bank for Sav- Amsterdam: its Charitable Institutions; its Prisons; and its Schools Account of Bamberg, and of its Public Institutions Report from the Committee on the State of the Police of the Me- tropolis, with the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Com- mittee. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, Review of "Théorie des Peines et des Récompenses, par M. J. Remarks on Prisons, the State of Religion, and of Education, at the Cape of Good Hope and in India Review of Buxton's Inquiry into our present System of Prison Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline, and for the Reformation of Juvenile Of- Report from the Select Committee on the Education of the Lower Orders. Ordered by the House of Commons to be An Outline of the Dorking Provident Institution Proclamation by the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.. Report of the Committee appointed by the Yearly Meeting of Address of the Indians assembled at Seneca Village, near Buffalo, Address to the Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle on the Subject of the Speech on the Propriety of revising the Criminal Laws, deliver- Hints for improving the Condition of Prisoners; derived from a Plan which has been tried and found beneficial in Newgate, and which appears capable of being introduced with advan- tage into most Prisons throughout the Empire An Account of the Charitable Donations to Places within the County of Berks. By Francis Charles Parry, Esq. A.M. Bar- rister-at-Law of the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple.. 364 THE PHILANTHROPIST. No. XXV. Report of the Proceedings of the Committee on Indian Concerns to the Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends at Baltimore. THE readers of The Philanthropist are aware, how deep an interest we take in every thing which favours the progress of that portion of our strangely diversified species to which the above title alludes, out of their present unhappy condition-nearly the lowest and most unfortunate into which human nature has any where been found degraded: and how high a measure of approbation, or rather of admiration, we bestow upon the well-directed, the sagacious, and effectual measures, which have been pursued by the Society of Friends in the United States, for effecting the civilization of these their wild, but not intractable, neighbours. At page 27 of our first volume, the reader will find a summary account of the plan upon which these exertions have been conducted. Nothing seems wanting but the pecuniary means necessary for carrying the designs of its authors into complete execution, to push civilization with an amazing rapidity through the whole of the rude tribes in that part of America. Nothing indeed is wanting but pecuniary means, and a sufficient number of men endued with the spirit of the Friends of Pennsylvania, to carry civilization with an amazing rapidity, through the rude tribes of our species, over the whole surface of the globe. The experiment which has been made by these philanthropists appears to us to be quite decisive; and the discovery which they have made, of a combination of means which are irresistible in the power of extending civilization, one of the greatest discoveries which has yet distinguished the progress of the human mind. What is now wanting is, that men should attend to this experiment, to this discovery. What is wanting is, that they should be induced to make use |