_London._
If persons who may have lost a child, or found one, in the streets, will
go with a written notice to the Royal Exchange, they will find boards
fixed up near the medicine shop, for the purpose of posting up such
notices, (_free of expense_.) By fixing their notice at this place, it
is probable the child will be restored to its afflicted parents on the
same day it may have been missed. The children, of course, are to be
taken care of in the parish where they are found until their homes are
discovered.
From the success which has, within a short time, been found to result
from the _immediate_ posting up notices of this sort, there can be
little doubt, when the knowledge of the above-mentioned boards is
general, but that _many_ children will be _speedily_ restored. It is
recommended that a bellman be sent round the neighbourhood, as
heretofore has been usually done.
Persons on receiving this paper are requested to fix it up in their
shop-window, or other conspicuous place.
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The managers of Spa-fields chapel improving upon the above hint, caused
a board to be placed in front of their chapel for the same purpose, and
printed bills which can be very soon filled up, describing the child
lost or found, in the following forms:--