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    250 THE QUEEN ADELAIDE NAVAL FUND.

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    " Sib—A variety of proposals for Memorials in honor of the late influence Queen Dowager , in behalf having of a * scheme been _siiggested which appears , I ventur to me e to to be request peculi your arly

    _approxDriate the ife and to the wi character dow of a of sailor that . beloved I think and that lamented a sum of princess money ,

    as w naval might and be raised marine by officers a general to collect appeal shillings to the wives and half and -crowns widows , of with all - benefit of the

    female out refusing orphans lar o g f . offic sums ers , of to the make royal a fund navy for and the to marines be invested . The in

    amountwhich I expect would be considerable , government under , securities the name , nag of the -offic ' Adelaide ers and captains Pension b Fund eing . trustees ' to the same

    "A , committee of ladies should be formed for receiving applications from the friends of the orphans , and investigating their claims , for reference the

    such sanction aided a b pension y of a committee the latter as shall being of meet officers necessary the of exi both gences for services the of award the respective d and in all amount app ; li t of

    tute cease cants till after han they m daug arri are age ht able . of to I am provide not l awar for e exce themselves of any ting provi the , an sion 6 Compassionate for the cases desti -

    Fund orp ' which is very ers limited nava in its applications p ; the Royal Naval Female , School / at Richmondwhich receives only a very small

    number of these dependent young , ladies ; and the i Adult Orphan Institution' in the Regent ' s Park , which is open to the Orphans of

    mother naval are wholl and is y utterl military , gratuitous y un officers able , and to and pay I know clergymen the sum many required . cases Neither where , althoug of the these h widowed it schools is but

    £ 12 "At per the annum present . moment there are two heart-rending cases which

    I effort may as bring that forward I now in earnestl proof of commend the urgent to necessit the attention y of some of such the y

    benevolent " The first and is patriotic that of the . four orphan daughters of a post captain ,

    royal the second navy , that both of fathers the six orp having han daug died hters of cholera of a lieutenant , and left of their the

    obtaining motherless th children at education entirel which y destitut might e , enable without them even hereafter the means to hel " of p

    themselves . sonall " These known are to but me two and of the I do many feel that equall enoug y distressin h has now g cases been per said - ;

    to commend y the cause to all British heartsto all who feel how large fenders is on the the debt quarter of our of gratitude - country deck of ; to any and the of hel I Her am pless certain Majesty representatives , that ' s shi there ps who is of not the will brave an not officer hail

    dewith intthe delig hat ht the held opportunit to him in y of honor dropp of ing the his beloved shilling wife or and half- wido crown w

    o of the sailor king , when her memory pleads for the unprotected

    daughters of ( it may be ) his own shipmates .

    250 The Queen Adelaide Naval Fund.

    250 THE QUEEN ADELAIDE NAVAL FUND .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/34/