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Draft Open letter by one of Northumberland Committee

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and on the 5th instant at another Meeting of the
Subscribers to the indigent Sufferers in the Town of Newcastle
held pursuant to an Advertisement inserted in the
Newcastle Newspapers of the 29 Feb the following
extraordinary Resolutions were made
             copy Resns 5 March

       In the Stile of these Resolutions the Locality is omitted
altho' the Meeting was founded upon the Advertisement of
the 29 Feb in which the Subscribers to the indigent
Sufferers in the Town of Newcastle only were desired to
attend

         These Facts are laid before you that every individual
may judge of the Competency of the persons who have
arrogated to themselves a power to dispose of a very large
Sum of Money, given by Others, to relieve the Distresses of
many poor, unfortunate, wretched Creatures, whose
                                 made an Object of their Enquiry
Conditions and Necessities the Disposers never ^ enquired
after, farther than those who live within the Liberties of
Newcastle -- will any one assert or can it be ??
that the Losses sustained by the indigent persons within the
Town or County of Newcastle, in any manner equals the
Losses sustained by such in the several other Counties?
if not, why shou'd equal Sums be applied to repair
unequal Losses, and why shou'd those very Gentlem

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