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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Paris, the King of France issues a circular letter inviting wealthy subjects to subscribe to building four hospitals, with major donors honored on brass plates. The royal family pledges liberal contributions, praising English philanthropic models.
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Paris, Jan. 25. The King has published a circular letter, addressed to such of his opulent subjects as profess themselves friends to the country and humanity, inviting them to contribute towards the expense of erecting four hospitals in the city of Paris. Such as subscribe 10,000 livres will have their names engraved upon a brass plate, as a testimony to future generations that there were people of philanthropick minds, who delighted in establishing an asylum for the reception of the unfortunate. The Sovereign and his august family propose to contribute liberally towards the four hospitals. There is doubtless great merit in imitating the conduct of the English, through whose patriotick subscriptions great numbers of useful and benevolent establishments have been formed in all parts of the country of that philosophick people.
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Paris
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Jan. 25
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subscribers of 10,000 livres will have names engraved on brass plates; the sovereign and family to contribute liberally.
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The King published a circular letter inviting opulent subjects who are friends to the country and humanity to contribute to erecting four hospitals in Paris, honoring major philanthropists for future generations and imitating English subscription models for benevolent establishments.