Count D'Orsay has written a letter to the editor of
the Courrier de rEurope, a French paper published in London, mentioning a project which he has long entertained to provide assistance for the destitute French in London. He has relieved them as often as he could, sometimes beyond the extent of his means ; but mere isolated acts of benevolence are insufficient— "I should propose two things " I. The establishment of a sort of house of refuge, where every native of France actually destitute should find at least a night's lodging and bread to eat.
"2. The foundation of a school where every child of a French subject resident in London might receive instruction gratuitously in the elementary and most useful branches of education.
"To this second foundation no objection has been started by those to whom I have suggested the idea : to the first some opposition has been made, on the ground that there are some of our countrymen unworthy of any interest that we could take in them. I reply, that every human being, whoever he may be, and whatever may have been his past life, is entitled to sleep under cover and to receive a morsel of bread; and that of those who ask nothing further, no man has a right to seek questions."
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