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Brougham, on the Attorney-General's representation, have candidly, and honorably to themselves, given such opinions on it as will tend much to support the dignity of our Courts of Justice, in spite of all attempts at intimidation, both within doors and without. It was hinted indeed, in the House, " that the Judges should be left to do as they pleased, or as they dared!"-but we trust that Judges will always dare to do their duty. Oliver the Protector, however, thought otherwise, for he asked the judges "who

made them so!"

BRITISH JURISPRUDENCE.
MR. EDITOR,

those Albanese monuments, may as well as those in the North, derive their origin from

As a matter of some curiosity to your the Northern (at that time still Pagan) legal readers, I beg leave to state, that in turn-tribes, such as the Heruli, &c. who accomnals during the Protectorate, I have met with of Rome. These nations still retained the ing over an old volume of the weekly Jour-panied Alaric during his nine months' siege the case of one Sundercombe, indicted, con- custom of burning their dead, and were fond victed and hanged for High Treason against of placing their sepulchral vases according Cromwell, the particulars of which bear a to the fashion of their country; and had, most remarkable resemblance to the charges perhaps, that their repose might not be disagainst Watson and his fellows. There were turbed, the same reasons for concealing them purchasing arms, of burning Whitehall by tians at an earlier period had for secreting the same circumstances of hiring houses, of in caves and under the sand, that the Chrismeans of a basket filled with gun-powder, theirs in the Catacombs. In respect to the &c. &c. The principal evidence to prove fact of these graves having been found under the affair, was one Toope, an accomplice: a stratum of lava, on which the opinion was The riots in the interior have met with but the remarkable circumstance is, that the founded that they were of the time of the a salutary check; and a new system of Court declared that by the common law to Aborigines, it must be observed, that it is tactics is now adopted, by exciting the compass or imagine the death of the Chief indeed true that they were discovered by the most absurd and unfounded misrepresen- he was called, whether Lord Protector or perpendicularly broken through to plant Magistrate of the land, by what name soever layer of Peperino over them, being by chance tation in the case of Oliver the spy, evi- otherwise, was High Treason; and that the trees; but on the other hand, the spot has dently with the hope of mystifying ju- Statutes of Treason, made 25th Edward III., not been yet sufficiently examined for it to ries on the trials of the rioters; but the as to this, did only declare what the common be decided, whether there may not be disincreasing demand in the iron and other law was before the making of the statutes, covered natural horizontal passages leading trades, together with the approaching and was not introductive of a new law! Now, to them, which are merely choaked up with plentiful harvest, will speedily give a turn Sir, what will your liberty lawyers say to sand and earth. to popular feeling, and perhaps render reasonings, and speechifications of a very this? I think I have seen pleadings and any further coercion unnecessary, beyond different tendency under a monarchy; but thus the mere temporary detention of the ac-wags the world! tive misleaders.

Your's,

NO LAWYER.

VARIETIES.

Count Von Ingenheim, happened, in turning
M. Von Hirt's travelling companion,
over Tacitus, to meet with a passage, which
more exactly fixes the era of a monument at
Rome, concerning which many doubts have
been hitherto entertained, and which was
generally thought to be of the times of the
Republic. It is the monument of C. Bibu-
little streets which lead from the Ripresa dei
lus on the Vicolo di Marfovio, one of the
Barberi to the Foro Romano.
The inscrip-

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the name of Bibulus, had entirely overlooked The antiquarians who sought in vain for what Tacitus says of him in the third book

The same hopes extend, and on the same foundation, towards the tranquillity on the Continent where the prospects of plenty are of the most flattering nature; ROME, APRIL 27-Mr. Aulic Counsellor setting limits to the mania for emigration, Hirt has now left Rome to return to Gerand promising the happiest results for many. The visit of this distinguished anti-tion on it is as follows: starving multitudes. The effect of this portance, as it took place at the time when quary, though short, was of the more imupon our own markets is already great; various discoveries and excavations were yet, by some most iniquitous and mono- made in the Campo Vaccino, &c. &c. Several polizing combinations, no advantage is disputed questions among the antiquarians hitherto experienced by the consumer, have been again brought forward on this though without any advantage whatever, the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, which occasion, as for instance, that of the site of either to the farmer or the landholder. the learned advocate Fea still supposes to be There are links in this combination, where the church and convent of Araceli from the baker up to the corn-factor, now stand; whereas Mr. Hirt alledges more that require to be broken by the strong powerful arguments for placing it on the hand of government. Perhaps the most lower point of the Capitoline Hill. the Annals; that in the consulship of prudent and effective measure would be opinion of Mr. Hirt is very remarkable, re- Caj. Sulpitius and Decius Haterius, the the establishment of public granaries, specting the sepulchral urns, &c. found dile C. Bibulus first, and after him the from whence flour, &c. might at all times Alexander Visconti, in an Essay which is of luxury at Rome, but the senate referred the under the Peperino near Albano, to which other Ediles, protested against the increase be issued to the immediate consumer, far from satisfactory, pretends to ascribe an matter to the Emperor Tiberius, who on this whenever monopoly raises the article unheard of antiquity. Mr. Hirt finds the occasion wrote a fine letter to the senate, above the fair level of the market, This most strict analogy in the form, materials, but declined interfering in these sumptuary would strike at the root of the evil, and and position of all those objects with what laws and restrictions, and left the matter to do more to preserve the fair equability and are known by the names of the Hun- Bibulus received as a reward for this zeal are often found in Germany and the North, the Ediles. It seems very probable that of price than fifty Corn Bills. an essay in German and French. He there-by a decree of the senate and the order of nengraeber, and on which he has published this monument for himself and his posterity fore affirms, with much probability, that

The

the people. Hence we may account for the simplicity of it, and the old-fashioned Pobwere suitable for a man who wanted to relicio and Postereique of the inscription which vive the austerity of the ancient censors

Our foreign relations present little remarkable. The Pernambucco affair ceases to preserve the air of revolution, and is in fact little more than an insurrection. agreed on the true meaning of the name given The German Literati are not exactly In such an affair, however, there can be to these graves or tumuli, The word Hunne no medium. Brazil must either be re- or Heune appears sometimes to mean a volutionized, or Pernambucco must yield this latter sense seems to me very opposite NORFOLK is not generally known to have foreigner or stranger, and sometimes a giant : POETIC REDUNDANCE.-The late DUKE of to superior power. The American papers here." assert that Apodaca, the royal viceroy, Graves of the Giants, symbolically for Graves of been a man of any literary taste; yet his Hunnengraber would thus signify: has declared himself independent in Mex-the Heroes, in strict analogy with the Grandia-friendly patronage of some of the earlier ico; but "this requires confirmation." que. works of Mr. TAYLOR, the well-known Pla

tonist, is sufficient to mark his desire of being a Mecenas. But he was also a man of some literary observation, as appears from his being, perhaps, the first to notice a most remarkable instance of redundance and tautology in POPE, which he pointed out to the translator of Aristotle:

“Close to the cliff, with both his hands he clung, And stuck adherent, and suspended hung.”

saw with equal astonishment and pleasure | whom, from want of general knowledge, are toboxes placed in the middle and at the corner tally unable, of themselves, to solve the doubts, of every street, with this simple inscription: difficulties, and obscurities which must unaBone-Box. Every family daily deposits voidably occur to them. Every thing, there fore, that tends to the popular illustration of there the bones from its kitchen, and every the Sacred Word, must he of importance, and day the magistrates have them fetched away we observe with much satisfaction a work in and carried to the establishment, where they progress, which promises to be more useful even are converted into jelly. In this manner a than Harmer's Illustrations, because it emconsiderable quantity of excellent soup is braces a wider field, including the geography GRAPHIC BOTANY.-The lovers of that procured to be distributed to the poor. The and natural history of the East, as well as the elegant pursuit may now expect to be highly indigent do not here walk about in the customs and manners both of ancient and mogratified with various graphic illustrations streets and public places: they are furnished dern times. It is said to be from the pen of PROFESSOR PAXTON of Edinburgh, and to exfrom different sources. Coloured plates, in with work and food." Two establishments are fully employed at tend, already, to 3 octavo volumes; but we a long series, of all the rare and curious. flowers, both British and Exotic, which have Geneva in extracting the nutritious parts cannot help suggesting, that it might be renblown in the garden of Mr. Conrad Loddiges, from bones. In one they proceed by simple dered much more valuable by another volume evidence of the authenticity of Scripture from at Hackney, so well known to amateurs, boiling for a longer or a shorter time. In embracing a popular account of the historical will soon be presented to public view, in the the other the bones reduced by the aid of the earliest period-of the purity of the Septhe Hebrew and Samaritan form of a Botanical Cabinet. They are said muriatic acid yield the jelly or glue (gela-tuagint over to comprehend a great number of the most tine) which is a most excellent resource be- copies of the historical chronology of the curious specimens known throughout Great cause it will keep any length of time when New Testament-of the astronomical proofs Britain; whilst specimens on a more cir-it is dry, and takes up in this state a very from Bishop Newton, as well as from the pen cumscribed scale, being exclusively a Mid- small space in proportion to the quantity of of the immortal philosopher of that name, Sir All Isaac-together with slight notices of and anland Flora, engraved by the well-known Mr. nutritious matter which it contains. Sowerby, and illustrated with letter-press by bones however are not equally susceptible swers to the modern and so much disseminated Mr. T. Purton, of Alcester, are also on the of giving jelly, after having furnished the doubts respecting the truth of divine revelation. point of appearance. broth, because there are some, of an earthy In consequence of cheap editions, the poison of nature, which it is important to know, in Volney's ruins of Empires has extended much further than is generally imagined; and a order not to lose the expence of boiling, and slight notice, with a simple refutation of his not to communicate a disagreeable taste to falsehoods and misrepresentations, would be a the jelly produced by the others.

So little known as Britain has hitherto been to the rest of the world, except by the terror of her arms, or the excellence of her tnanufactures, it is gratifying to reflect, that these and similar works will tend to spread her fame in the more pleasing arts.

GOUT AND RHEUMATISM.-Experiments have recently been made in France upon the nature of the gases developed from food in the human stomach. These have been found to consist of oxygen, carbonic acid,

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC
INTELLIGENCE.

valuable addition to Professor Paxton's work.

Mr. T. N. Talfourd, of the Middle Temple, is preparing for publication, a Practical Treatise on the Laws of Toleration and Religious Liberty, as they affect every class of Dissenters from the Church of England, intended to form a compendium of the civil, political, and relig There has just issued from the press of ious rights of all his Majesty's subjects, as, at pure hydrogen, and azote. In the stomach Bourlie, "A Chronological Catalogue of the present, affected by the profession of religious the oxygen was discovered, but not in any works in sculpture of Antonio Canova, publish- opinions. With an Appendix, containing the of the intestines; but the azote and carbo-ed at the request of His Royal Highness the most important statutes on the subject of Tonic acid were found every where, whilst Prince of Bavaria," Rome 1817, 18 pages in leration, and forms of proceedings by indietvarious combinations of the hydrogen were 4to. Canova's first work, two fruit baskets in ment, and before Magistrates for infractions marble, is of the year 1772 when he was 14 years of the Acts protecting worship, and other met with in the great intestine. of age. In 1781 having already acquired some offences relating to Religion, in 1 vol. 8vo. reputation he left his country, the Venetian The following is an extract of a Letter from dominions, and came to Rome. The number of Berlin, dated June 7: "The learned Professor his works mentioned in the catalogue, large and Schleiermacher, whose name is already well small, statues, bas-reliefs, models, groups, dup-known to the public as the translator of Plato's licates of statues, busts, &c. amounts to 125; works, has lately commenced a course of Lecamong which are such undertakings as the tures on the Republic of Plato, and on the form monuments of Popes Ganganelli and Rezzonico, of the Archduchess Christina, at Vienna, of Alfieri, at Florence, of Emo, at Venice, Santa Crux, &c. Besides these works, some paintings by Canova are also mentioned, among others the Altarpiece in the church of his native town

This subject has been formerly considered in this country; and in an early number of the New Monthly Magazine, it was boldly laid down as a principle, that the superfluity of gas on the muscular system from impeded perspiration, produces rheumatism; whilst the entrance of globules of gas into the veins and arteries, is the mechanical cause of gout by the obstruction of circulation.

METEOROLOGY. During the last year at Paris, there were 167 days of rain; 13 of snow; 19 of hail; 71 of frost; and 10 thunderstorms. The prevalent winds had been 12 days from the North; 51, N. E.; 24, E.; 24, S. E.; 52, S.; 83, S. W.; 84, W.; and

36, N. W.

Possagno.

and administration of Governments such as they have been and as they ought to be. These Lectures, if they should ever be printed, will doubtless be found to contain a great number of speculative and profound ideas, but very few which are practicable, or at all applicable to the state in which Society is at present placed." ELGIN MARBLES.—It is interesting to learn The Academy of La Crusca has recently that the first volume of the Treatise on the Elgin Marbles, including an historical and to-appointed five new corresponding members to pographical account of Athens, is nearly ready fill the places which were vacant in its establishment. These members are the Chevalier Mofor publication. It will be accompanied by relli, Keeper of the Library at Venice; Signor nearly 40 plates; and we trust that it will be, to surrounding nations, a splendid monument Michel Colombo, of Parma; Count Francois Maof what British taste, learning, and philosophical zotti, of Milan; Father Antonio Casuri, Priest of research can accomplish. Hitherto Britain has the Oratory of Verona; and Mr. Mathias, of London. The academy renewed its officers in been too modest-too much inclined to yield the sitting of the 26th of May; Count Badulli the palm of superiority in arts to her neighbours; let them now learn that in both our arts was appointed President; and the Abbé Zannoni, and arms we can excel! antiquary to the Grand Duke öf Tuscany, Secretary..

We shall be obliged to any of our Correspondents for a similar table at London. NATURAL HISTORY.-The islands of Martinique and St. Lucie have now become so much infested with the yellow viper, which is frequently found six feet in length, that the French Government are actually about to colonize those islands with a bird of prey from Southern Africa, called the Secretary, SCRIPTURE HISTORY.-We are well conor falco serpentarius of Linnæus, which has vinced that the more scripture history is inves- The Royal Academy of Erfurt has recently long been famous for habits of devouring tigated, the more clear and conclusive will be fixed on the following singular question, for the serpents, &c. found the evidence on which it rests. The best reply to which it is intended to award a LETTER FROM GENEVA.-" I yesterday present rapid distribution of Holy Writ has also prize. Namely, how far the wars of 1814 and walked about the streets of this city, and increased the number of inquirers, many of 1815 contributed to the benefit of humanity.

INSTA

END OF VOL. I.

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Journal of Belles Lettres, Politics and Fashion.

NO. XXIV.

RATURE.

SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1817.

"While political fanaticism and war

with above 16,000l.

The idea

an extensive and complete school course with

the proposed addition of several professorships different departments of science.

PRICE 1s. PRESENT STATE OF ENGLISH LITE-in England all the vices which are per-sical school, which was set on foot by subscriphaps inseparable from excess of refine- tion: but the town having latterly increased in wealth and population with a rapidity not ment. But on the other hand we may to be often parallelled in the old world, the add to our consolation, that there is no established school was found unequal to the In one of the last year's numbers of a foreign journal, La Bibliotheque Univer- country where the virtues which tend to increased demand for instruction. selle, we have met with a view of the alleviate natural evils, and the sufferings of setting on foot another School to meet the increasing demand occurred to a spirited and present state of English Literature, which of society, are so general, and practised intelligent individual. He consulted with some ou the whole gives a pretty impartial refriends on the propriety of the measure: it was with such judicious activity. view of our literature for the last twenty approved of, and a resolution made to solicit years, and names many of our most dis-deluged Europe with blood, the English subscriptions for the purpose. Subscriptions were solicited: the inhabitants met the applitinguished writers in the different depart- were improving all the means of allevia- cations with a laudable promptitude; and, ments of learning. ting the sufferings of their fellow crea-within two or three days, the sum of 30001. The solicitors thus encouThe author is of opinion that the En-tures, and spreading among them the was subscribed. raged proceeded with alacrity, and within a very glish manners, particularly the exclusion knowledge of the truth. Thus they short time the subscriptions amounted to a sum of the women from general society, pre-improved upon the principles of How-far exceeding any expectation, that had been vents the literati from adding to their ard, the management of the hospitals and originally formed. The subscription list closed solid learning a refined and delicate taste. prisons; they acquainted Europe with the The first object had been a school only; but Every requisite for this was found in the discovery of the immortal Jenner; they when subscriptions flowed in so readily, the highest possible degree in Paris before abolished the slave-trade, and introduced views of the collectors extended with the grow the revolution. The English, who rivaled civilization into Africa; they established ing spirit of the contributors, and a plan of the French in the sciences, found them societies for the relief of foreigners in education was given to the public, embracing the only school in which they could mo-distress; they spread the light of knowdify and soften the peculiarities arising ledge over distant countries, by making from their character, their manners, them acquainted with our sacred wri- In the year 1810 the plan was enlarged and their insular situation, their independence, tings; they discovered, and taught to matured, and the subscribers incorporated by act of parliament. By this act the subscri and their favorite recreations, play, and the rest of the world, that simplified and bers, or proprietors, forming a corporate body, easy method of elementary instruction, are empowered" to establish and maintain an The English having been cut off du- the object of which is to raise to the dig- Academical Institution in the town of Belfast, ring a twenty years' war from all comnity of man millions of individuals for affording to youth a classical and mercanwhom fortune has condemned to igno- Natural Philosophy, Logic, Metaphysics, Belles munication with the civilized world, extile education, and for teaching Mathematics, cept such as arose from increasing com- rance. In general, a universal spirit of Lettres, Moral Philosophy, Chemistry, Botany, merce and great military operations, the beneficence, respect for misfortune, emu-Agriculture, and other branches of science. natural consequence was, that the richer lation in works of charity, predomina- The act also erects two boards, one of manaclasses having no more any opportunity ted among this same people, whose the literary departments in the Institution. Unof neutralising their habits in a foreign spirit was exalted by the sense of its in-der their care plans for the necessary buildings country, the national defects took deep-dependence and its strength, which had were procured. The plan since carried into er root, and the literary productions which made itself master of the commerce of effect was the gift of, I believe, the ingenions and intelligent Mr. Soane, the Architect. depend on the imagination, and one of the world, and of the sovereignty of the The buildings proceeded with rapidity, and in whose chief merits is to harmonise with seas. It seems that England, while it November 1813, matters were in such a state the tone of society, savour more and was destined to unite the rest of Europe of forwardness, that the boards met and elected more of their native soil. The observa- in a common exertion of its strength, and masters to superintend the schools of the establishment, and appointed the first day of Fetions of the author respecting the state bruary, 1814, for the commencement of their of society and manners in England seem important operations. On that memorable day to us to be more applicable to things accordingly the doors of the Institution were as they were five and twenty years ago, thrown open and pupils eagerly thronged to than as they are now. The article coneludes in the following manner:

the table.

to give to the enemy of social order
the last decisive blow, was selected by
heaven for the noble vocation of pre-
serving the sacred flame of virtue, and
the example of those tender relations
which beneficence establishes among
mankind."

BELFAST ACADEMICAL INSTITU-
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gers for the economical, and one of visitors for

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not have been so far conducted without expeA plan so important and so extensive could "If we must lament that certain exriencing some of that opposition, which uniaggerated opinions gain ground in Enformly awaits all attempts however laudable. A number of objections were made to it on gland, of which Methodism is a proof, the ground, that such an establishment was not the generous sacrifices of some societies at all required: that it could not continue for which are animated with an ardent zeal any time, particularly in the classical departto extend what is good, must on the To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. ment, as Belfast could not supply a sufficient other hand afford the more lively satisSir,-You express yourself with a praise-number of pupils. It was said, that the classifaction. It cannot be denied that gold The promptness of my address to you suffiworthy liberality on the subject of education. is the idol of this people, that their luxu-ciently indicates my entire confidence in your ry and vanity are without bounds, that declarations; and I now proceed to give you a of native genius, in the first instance; we put the higher classes set the example of im-sketch of the rise, progress, and present state of a question, with perfect liberality, to our Irish Correspondent, was there no competent nutke morality, and in general that one finds Belfast, for many years past, has had a clas-Architect in Ireland?

the Belfast Academical Institution.

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REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.
MACBETH AND KING RICHARD THE

cal school, which has existed in Belfast for ters, to whom he becomes attached by long University qualified to contend for, honorable many years, had been found sufficient for the acquaintance, and with school-fellows, who he distinction in science also; and into the world, Here I shall close for this time: I have perdemand; and as a sufficient number of pupils come endeared to him by various attractive qualified by practical knowledge, to enter an for both schools could not be found, a com- associations. The continuity of instruction is the highest contests and councils of life. most certainly farther, than I had intended. petition would arise, which would necessarily thus maintained unbroken, and the irksomeness introduce a total relaxation of wholesome dis- of laborious study is lightened by this aff-haps trespassed too far on your indulgence; cipline, as each master would be anxious to re-liation of pursuits. In the Institution each master has the entire Another letter shall close the subject. In it commend himself to his pupils by an injurious June 18th, 1817. indulgence. The assertion, that pupils could management of his own school, and enjoys ex-I shall detail the plan of the collegiate departnot be had, has been abundantly contradicted clusively the fruits of his own industry and ment, &c. &c. I am, Sir, your's truly, &c. by fact. Within a very few weeks after the ability. The advantage expected to arise from opening of the Institution nearly 500 pupils this is a vigorous and animated exertion in the were enrolled in the books of the different teachers, from which the pupils must be beschools, of which the classical school had a large nefited. The large school-establishments in share. The Institution is now going on to the England and Ireland are in general so appointfifth year of its course: like every other estab ed, that some one department of instruction THIRD; An Essay, in answer to remarks lishment it has felt the pressure of the times, obtains a decided precedency, while the others and the schools are not so numerously attended, are comparatively neglected. This may hap-on some of the Characters of SHAKThe publication of this essay in the as they have been: yet even now the books pen without any ground to charge the master SPEARE. By J. P. KEMBLE. contain about 300 names of pupils actually in with wilful neglect. The subordinate departattendance. The things stated above, on the ments in such establishments are seldom con-week, when the author took his farewell of effects to be expected from competition, and ducted with spirit, because a stimulus of suff the stage, and his eminent rank as an acput forward as an argument, might rather ap- cient power is not applied. The principal pear as a misrepresentation on my part: but, I conscientiously discharges his duty; but he may tor, have rendered it an object of much assure you, it has actually appeared in print, be bound up by the constitution of his appoint-attention. The ingenious Mr. Whately, in and been advanced with much confidence and ment. His under-masters and assistants may be, his remarks, had anxiously, and as we consome acrimony by the opponents of the Insti- and, we know, frequently are, limited to a cerceive without any thing like just grounds, tution. It should not have been mentioned, tain stipend; and as exertion in this case is sure so silly is it, but that it contributes to shew of no reward, no great effort can be expected. endeavoured to establish a notion of the merits of a plan, against which its inter- The contrary principle is recognised in the superior bravery in Richard III. and of ested and active adversaries could fetch no constitution of the Institution, and correspond-inferior courage, or rather of cowardice, in Macbeth. Strange as this opinion may ing results may reasonably be expected. stronger objections. From an establishment, formed of a chain of Undoubtedly schools, vigorously acting each for itself, and appear to those who judge of Shakspeare all in hearty co-operation a further and most by his own writings, it has found a sup important advantage is looked for. You have, porter in Mr. Steevens.

The establishment consists of two parts; one comprising the schools, the other, professorships in different branches of literature and science in a collegiate form.

In the school-department, English, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography with the Use of the Globes, Mathematics, and the Classics, are taught in separate schools.

I

doubt not, met with persons skilled in all the if we were, in any case, inclined to surniceties of classic learning, and utterly unac

Mr. W. not only overlooked

quainted with any thing else; who could per- render the evidence of our senses; and There are also haps contribute to a variorum edition of a clas- the express meaning of the text, to other masters on the establishment for French, Draw-sic, and not be able to sum up their wash-wo-authority, we should have been inclined ing, Dancing, and other accomplishments. man's account. You are aware, Sir, I am to adopt the supposition of these comThe buildings are very extensive and capacious, sure, how injurious this learned ignorance is affording accommodation for day-boys and not only in the ordinary business of life, but mentators. boarders; the situation healthful, airy and com- in the future pursuits of science. Without a and rejected Shakspeare's express statemodious, with good play-grounds, uniting the knowledge of arithmetic it is not possible to ments of Macbeth's heroic valour, but he advantages of vicinity to a flourishing town pass on profitably to mathematics: without ma- has overlooked in the drama, the details and the retirement of the country. Arithme-thematics in vain will the student seek to tic and Mathematics are taught to the verge climb the eminences of Natural Philosophy of Richard's selfish and inhuman dispo a statist, or death, which befell him as the punishof the usual school course; I may say, farther; in vain without these sister-sciences shall he sition from his boyhood up to that violent for pupils are instructed in the higher branches hope to distinguish himself as of Mathematics both practical and theoretical; financier in the councils of his country. Yet ment of his crimes. He has divided and which are seldom taught in schools. The Ma- these important departments of science are enthematical professor also teaches Geography and tirely omitted, or at the best, neglected, in the sub-divided the ordinary meaning of popular course of Astronomy with the Use great schools of these countries. I beg it may words in daily use, until he has given of the Globes. In the classical school, Latin not be supposed that I would impute any them a novel or a doubtful, and, in and Greek are taught on the plan of the higher blame to the respected masters of those esta- some instances, an opposite, interpretahimself—" In English schools, with strict attention to com-blishments, which have sent forth so many tion. Of the courage of the two usurp position in those languages, and to their pro- scholars an honour to their instructors, and an sody. The extensive course of Latin and ornament to their country. On the contrary, Iers he thus expresses Greek appointed to be read, for instance, in consider the masters of the great endowed Richard it is intrepidity, and in MacDublin College, forms the regular course of the schools in England and Ireland as men of the beth no more than resolution: in him school, together with select parts from Livy, highest respectability. The defects of the InTacitus, Demosthenes, Euripides, and Aristo- stitutions, over which they preside, originate (Macbeth) it proceeds from exertion uot phanes. Composition forms an important part not with them: the schools were originally from nature; in enterprise he betrays a in the course of education taught in the Iusti- founded for the promotion of classical literature; degree of fear, though he is able, when tution. The pupil is thereby compelled to put the pupils sent to those schools are supposed occasion requires, to stifle or subdue it." in requisition all his powers and acquirements; to be previously instructed in other branches-We are afraid that some plain unA lad under their learned readers, who have been accusand by this exercise acquires power of lan- of education; and the masters cannot depart

guage and a habit of attention and accuracy from their chartered course.

in his business. The classical master presides instruction will become an excellent classical tomed, like us, to consider courage a in the classical school; the Mathematical pro- scholar; but now something more than mere source or cause of exertion or enterprise, fessor teaches Mathematics, Arithmetic, and classical knowledge is requisite to fit the youth

Geography; the English master conducts the for the business of life-even that class of and not a result proceeding from exerEnglish department; and the Writing master youth, which may be destined exclusively for tion, will be tempted to smile at these The schools a learned profession. To obviate this great grave absurdities. But into what absur rules in his own department. afford a regular gradation of instruction. deficiency, or error in the great schools, is one dity will not the rage for annotation beFrom the most elementary part the pupil object of the plan, on which the Institution is may be conducted to the completion of his founded; and it is intended, that the pupil, tray a sagacious admirer of our great school course under the same roof, with mas-versed in classic literature, shall be sent to the dramatic poet? There is a key to Shah

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