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 nity: the unhappy, found in him their best comforter; the poor and needy, their surest support: at the time that he was raising palaces, and founding academies, hospitals of all kinds were reared with liberality and magnificence throughout the kingdom: the scheme and execution of the county hospitals were the effects of his goodness: nay, the very plan was his own thought: whatever county would raise half the necessary sum for any of those seminaries of the poor or miserable; the King granted the other half: happy nation! to have such amiable qualities mixt with the more dazzling brightness of their Monarch's mind! twenty foundling hospitals were erected at his sole expence, in different parts of Great-Britain and Ireland: the hint of these useful foundations, was taken from one that was established for a few years in the reign of George II. but it came to nothing,