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LONDON LYING-IN HOSPITAL, and
MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.
LYON'S INN. See LION'S INN.
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M.
MACCLESFIELD street, Gerrard street,
Soho.
MADDOX street, Swallow street.
MAGGOT'S court, Piccadilly.
MAGDALEN HOUSE, for the reception of
penitent prostitutes, in Prescot street,
Goodman's fields, is a plain, neat build-
ing, with a wall and a small area before
it. To prevent these penitents being ex-
posed to the public eye, the windows next
the street are concealed by wood work
sloping up from the bottom of each, so as
to admit the light only at the top; the
sides are also inclosed, so that there is no
possibility of these once unhappy women
either seeing or being seen by any person
who passes by. This sloping projection
of the blinds, placed in a regular series
before all the windows in each story, and
painted white like the walls, has a very
singular appearance; for, at a distance,
the house seems falling into the street.
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Though this is one of the latest of those
excellent charitable foundations that do
honour to the present age, it being pro-
posed and carried into execution in the
year 1758, there is reason to believe that
it will not be the least useful. It is ob-
vious that there cannot be greater objects
of compassion than poor, young, thought-
less females, plunged into ruin by those
temptations to which their youth and per-
sonal advantages expose them, no less than
those passions implanted by nature for
wise, good, and great ends; surrounded
by snares the most artfully and industri-
ously laid; snares laid by those endowed
with superior faculties, and all the advan-
tages of education and fortune; who offer
too commonly to transport the thoughtless
girls from want, confinement, and re-
straint of passions, to luxury, liberty, gaiety
and joy: but when once seduced, how
soon do their golden dreams vanish!
abandoned by the seducer, deserted by
their friends, contemned by the world,
they are not only deprived of their inno-
cence, and every pleasing hope of domes-
tic happiness, but are left to struggle with
want, despair and scorn, and even, in their
own defence, to plunge deeper and deeper
in sin, till disease and death conclude a
miserable being. It is too well known
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