ABSTRACT
Mr. Examiner.—Passing yesterday afternoon by the Town-Hall of Southwark, I was attracted by the cries of a woman with a child in her arms: on enquiry, I was informed that several women (soldiers [sic] wives) had been applying for parochial relief to Sir John Eamer, who had ordered them to prison for seven days, previous to their being past [sic] to their respective parishes. The woman above alluded to, feeling, as you and I would do, indignant at being deprived of her liberty because she was poor, was resisting the efforts of the Officers to conduct her and her companions in misery to prison. I thought it a hard case, and now hand it to you to insert in the Examiner, if you think proper.—N.B. The Officers behaved very kind to the women.
