Note 13 — SECOND ANNUAL REPORT.

“The present demoralizing system of begging—a thing so ruinous in its effects, that the major part of the delinquents with which our prisons are filled, owe their progress in crime to the encouragement given to idle habits by the false feeling of charity acted upon by the public, in the promiscuous dispensation of alms to those who are seldom, if ever, deserving of them.”—Report on Poverty, Mendicity, and Crime, to the House of Lords in 1839, by W. A. Miles, Esq.