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The Enquirer
Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia
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Statistical sketch of London highlighting religious institutions (502 worship places), education (4050 schools), charities (750,000l. annually), contrasted with crime (2500 commitments, 210,000l. depredations), prisons (18), alehouses (5204), counterfeit coins (200,000l.), receivers of stolen goods (5000), unemployed servants (10,000), and daily destitute (20,000).
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There are in London about 502 places for worship, one cathedral, one abbey, 114 churches, 132 chapels, 207 meetings and chapels of dissenters, 35 chapels for foreigners, and 6 synagogues. About 4050 public and private schools, including inns of court, colleges, &c. and societies for morals: 10 societies for learning and arts, 122 asylums for the indigent, 17 asylums for sick and lame, 15 dispensaries, and 704 friendly societies. Charity distributed 750,000l. per annum. This is a pleasing account: but the following cannot be read without feeling emotions of sorrow and pity. There are about 2500 persons committed for trial in one year--Annual depredations amount to 210,000l.--18 prisons, 5204 alehouses within the bills of mortality. Amount of coins counterfeited, 200,000l. per annum. About 5000 receivers of stolen goods. About 10,000 servants at all times out of places; and 20,000 persons rise every morning without knowing how they shall subsist through the day.
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charity distributed 750,000l. per annum; 2500 persons committed for trial yearly; annual depredations 210,000l.; 18 prisons; 5204 alehouses; counterfeit coins 200,000l. per annum; 5000 receivers of stolen goods; 10,000 unemployed servants; 20,000 daily destitute.
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London has about 502 places of worship including one cathedral, one abbey, 114 churches, 132 chapels, 207 dissenter meetings and chapels, 35 foreign chapels, and 6 synagogues. There are about 4050 public and private schools, including inns of court, colleges, etc., and societies for morals: 10 societies for learning and arts, 122 asylums for the indigent, 17 asylums for sick and lame, 15 dispensaries, and 704 friendly societies.