THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION, FOR DELIVERING poor MARRIED WOMEN AT THEIR OWN HABITATIONS. Recommendatory Letters from Governors are received at Dr. Atkinson's, 26, ermyn Street, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, between Nine and Ten o'Clock in the Morning. Committee at Hungerford Coffee House, First Monday in the Month. President--The Duke of York. INSTITUTION, FOR THE CURE AND PREVENTION OF CONTAGIOUS FEVER IN THE METROPOLIS, 2, CONSTITUTION ROW, GRAY'S INN LANE ROAD. President-The Duke of Somerset. BLOOMSBURY DISPENSARY, 62, GREAT RUSSEL STREET, FOR THE RELIEF OF THE SICK POOR, WITH ADVICE, MEDICINE, AND ATTENDANCE; AND FOR THE COW POCK INOCULATION. Instituted 1801. Patron-The Duke of Bedford. President The Marquess of Huntley. NEW LYING-IN CHARITY, 9, PANTON STREET, HAYMARKET, FOR THE SOLDIERS" WIVES OF THE REGIMENTS OF FOOT GUARDS. Patronesses-Duchess of York, Duchess of Dorset, Duchess of Richmond, Lady Grenville, Countess of Mulgrave, Countess of Harcourt, Lady Auckland, Hon. Mrs. Grosvenor, Lady Dalrymple, Lady Sheffield, and Mrs. Barton. Treasurer-Thomas Hammersley, Esq. FRIENDLY FEMALE SOCIETY, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF LADIES, FOR AFFORDING RELIEF TO POOR AGED WOMEN OF GOOD CHARACTER. Instituted in 1802. Patronesses The Princess of Wales, the Princess Char- Treasurer Mrs. Lloyde, East Lane, Bermondsey. LONDON INFIRMARY, 40, CHARTER HOUSE SQUARE, for curing DISEASES OF THE EYE. Instituted in 1804. Out-Patients for Advice and Medicine, and In-Patients, for Operation, are admitted, on the recommendation of a Governor, on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. President-Sir Charles Price, Bart. NEW RUPTURE SOCIETY, FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED POOR OF BOTH SEXES AFFLICTED WITH HERNIARY COMPLAINTS AND PROLAPSES. Instituted in 1804. The benefits of the Society are extended to all parts of the Kingdom. Patients recommended by a Governor, must attend William Blair, esq. at Nine O'Clock in the Morning. Patron-Duke of York, K. G. and K. B. Vice Patrons-Duke of Somerset, Duke of Bedford, Earl of Shrewsbury, Earl of Dartmouth, Earl of Ashburnham, Earl Fitzwilliam, Earl of Mansfield, Bishop of Durham, and Marquess of Hastings, K. G. President-Lord Arden. LONDON VACCINE INSTITUTION, FOR INOCULATING AND SUPPLYING MATTER FREE OF EXPENSE. Founded in 1896. Inoculation by Dr. Walker, 4, Salisbury Court, daily, at Eleven o'Clock; at his own House, 6, Bond Court, Walbrook, at Two o'Clock; at St. John's Vestry-room, Horsly down, on Monday, at half past Two; and at Lancaster's School, Borough Road, King's Bench, a Three. Presidents Archbishop of Canterbury, Duke of St. Albans, Duke of Leeds, Duke of Devonshire, Duke of Gordon, K. T. Duke of Wellington, Marquess of Landsdown, Marquess of Stafford, K. G., Marquess of Bath, and Marquess Camden. CITY OF LONDON TRUSS SOCIETY, 10, GROCER'S HALL COURT, POULTRY. For the relief of the Ruptured Poor throughout the Kingdom. The objects of this Charity are to provide Trusses, and other Requisites, for every kind of Rupture, to dminister Surgical Aid promptly, and to supply Medicines and Attendance during the Cure of the Patient. Patrons His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent and Strathearn, and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. President―J. Atkins, Esq., Alderman, M. P. 2. HOSPITALS, FOR THE ACCOMMODATION OF AGE, INFIRMITY, &c. Greenwich Hospital. who by . THIS hospital is a retreat for seamen, age, wounds, or other accidents, are disabled from service; and for the widows and children of such as are slain in the service. King William and queen Mary had the good of this hospital much at heart; and they accordingly made a grant of the royal and magnificent palace at Greenwich; a part of which, on the west side, was begun to be built for a royal palace by king Charles II. King William, after his queen's death, on the 25th of October 1695, appointed a number of commissioners, for directing the building and endowing of this intended hospital, and granted a large sum out of his civil list for that purpose; and his royal successors were also considerable benefactors to it. At length annual sums were granted by parliament for finishing this truly magnificent ornament and glory of Great Britain; and it was fully completed in the reign of George II. By an act of king William, the privilege of admission to this hospital was granted to registered seamen, when maimed or superannuated, and to the widows and children of those who were killed in the service. This act for registering seamen was repealed by Anne. Every seaman is required to allow, out of his wages, sixpence a month, for the support of this hospital: and by an act of George II., a seaman absenting himself from his ship, with out leave, shall forfeit, for every day's absence, two days' pay to Greenwich Hospital, to be deducted out of his wages: and a seaman, not entering into the king's service, who shall leave his ship before he hath a discharge in writing, shall forfeit one month's pay, By an act of George II., the rents and profits of the vast estates, which were forfeited by the attainder of James, late earl of Derwentwater, and of Charles Ratcliff, were applied to the completing of the building of Greenwich Hospital; and the same act also provided, that all seamen in the merchants' service, who shall happen to be maimed in fighting, not only against pirates, but against an enemy of his majesty, &c., shall be admitted into and pro vided for in this hospital, as well as seamen maimed and disabled in the king's actual service, The governors are empowered to grant outpensions to decrepid seamen. And persons falsely assuming the name and character of outpensioners, are guilty of felony without benefit of clergy. The pensioners to this hospital are clothed in blue, and allowed stockings, shoes, linen, and a shilling a week for other necessaries. The victualling is according to the allowance of Chelsea Hospital, viz. four men to a mess, each mess containing four pounds of flesh-meat, a gallon of beer, &c. 3 The governors of this hospital are the great officers of state and persons in high employments under the king. It is under the more particular inspection and government of twenty-four commissioners, a governor, a lieutenant-governor, and other subordinate officers, with appropriate salaries. Chelsea Hospital, or College. THIS building was commenced by king James I. in the 5th year of his reign, for a college, to consist of a number of learned divines, who, being furnished with books, and all means of |