The tendencies of the Foundling Hospital in its present extent, considered in several views, just as they occur en passant in a lax epistolary address, attempting to preserve the lives of bastard infants, to continue the custom of matrimony, to strengthen the community, in its population, and to better it in its industry, in its trade, in its opulence, &c. and, most of all, in, what shou'd most be regarded, its morals : in several letters to a senator.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cato (Shared pseudonym of Frank Owen, Michael Foot and Peter Howard)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foundling Hospital (London, England).

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 24 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Tendencies of the Foundling Hospital in its present extent.

Six concluding letters to a senator, on the tendencies of the Foundling Hospital in its boundless extent.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for C. Henderson ..., 1760.

Notes:

Vol. 2 has title: Six concluding letters to a senator, on the tendencies of the Foundling Hospital in its boundless extent. Part II. Shewing what is bad in that plan; and pointing out a new one to be substitued [sic] instead of it, or to be united to what is good in it; this new one tending to make the poor become a full support to the poor, and not only not burdensome to the public, but great benefactors to it.

Last letter (III) of v. 1 and letters IV, VII, and IX of v. 2 signed: Cato.

Vol. 1: 10, [2], 11-32 p.; v. 2: 44 p.

Cited in:

ESTC T049955 (variant), T048388.

OCLC:

185066463