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• To The public. The society formed in the four courts marshalsea during last winter, for the purpose of providing food and bedding for the numerous poor in that prison, having, by the assistance of a few friends to the institution, been enabled, for four months past, to relieve such as had no other means of support, think it incumbent on them, in gratitude to lay the following state of their accounts before the humane subscribers to the charity:----
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