ROTECTOR INSTITUTION,
for supplying the Nobility and Gentry with RESPECTABLE SERVANTS, No.59, Great Russellstreet, Bloomsbury, opposite the British Museum.
The difficulty of obtaining good and efficient servants is a subject of common anti almost universal complaint with familes ; in the meanwhile the causes which conduce to that difficulty are too apparent to be misunderstood.
There can be no doubt that respectable servants in every department are still to be found in number equal to tile demand ; but illicit trading in. characters, and interested recommendations, have generated a system out of which every species of deception has grown, to make fabricated characters pass for current ! The fre quent obtrusions of artful and worthless servants by these means have created general distrust in families to the prejudice of the worthy and efficient.
It is a distinguishing feature of this Institution (and a practice confined to this Establishment exclusively), that it takes no premium from Servants when they enter their names for places ; the obvious consequences of which are, that a greater number of Servants are entered on these books than at any other pace in Loudon, and hence the supply more prompt and certain than elsewhere ; and as no obligation subsists between the Institution and the Servants who enter their names, it Is clearly the interest of the Proprietor to make a selection of those whose character and qualifications are most likely to du him credit.
A close and rigid investigation is made into the character and qualifications of every Servant whose name is entered, and the answers to those inquiries are shown to Subscribers, as a primary course by which to select those who appear best suited to their purpose, on all occasions ; those inquiries, although made with caution and strong terms, do not preclude families from any course they may think proper to take for their further satisfaction.
It has been considered an ineligible practice to trouble Families by the application of Servants at their own houses, because a host of applicants always obtrude themselves wherever a vacancy is known to take place ; to counteract which a convenient apartment in the Institution is appropriated to the exclusive use of Subscribers, and Servants are ordered to attend them at their appointments-this arrangement is, however, subject to any other course that may be considered more expedient.
The Female Department isamder the management of a highly respectable and well informed Matron, from whom Ladies will receive the utmoseattention.
Any further information that may be required, may be obtained either at the office of the Institution, from 10 till 4 daily, or immediate answers will be given to the favour of inquiries by post.
It is particularly requested that all letters may he poet-paid.
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