Star. — London, England, 1816-08-23 00:00:00

igissimegsioligslialialgetage===e=r A SKETCH FROM HUMbLE By JANE TAYLOR. "; . Pawn a close street, *hese darksonte shape Morley, • Old clothes wad iron as both sides the ways • I.pathseme and *retched, whence the eye in pain t Averted turns, nor seeks to vie* again; Where lowest dregs of human nature dwell, Mom loathsome than the rags and rust they set. It pale ntecbanic rents an =AC ; By many a slitrteed fluor you gain the door t 'lb one poor room, whose blscksn'd walls are !Mg, •Witlr dust that settle) there when he Was young. The rusty grate two massy bricks displays, To AB the sides and make a frugal blase. The door unbined, the window tattled and twolke , The penes obscued by half a destury's smoke There stands the bench at wheel his life Is spilt; Worn, grimed, and !held, and Vrenn-devened, end brat Where daily, undisturbed by foes or Mena, lo bee 'pearled attitude he bends, His tools, long practia, seetn.to ttbderstind Scarcaless their functions than his own right bent With these be drives his craft with patient still; Tear after year would fled him at it still t The noisy world amend is changing all, War follows Peace, and Kingdoms rise tad fad; France rages now, and Spain, and now a Turk; NOW Victory sounds—but there he bits at work! • man might see him sit, then bid adieu.... Shake a long voyage to China or Peru— There walk, sett/e, build—at length might come Aher'd, and old, and Weather-beaten, home, And find him on the same squat" foot of floor On which be left him twenty years before! The self-same bench, and attitude, and stool, The sanie d r a t e movement of his omitting tool; Tbe very %wilt his knees and chin, As thongh be had but stept just out and int 1111111.....11= . . ; 711 ENGLISH ()PARA The, favourite veteran, CumtLis INCLEDON, ap peared last night in the pint of Captain Matheath, as this Theatte. A very numerous and fashionable audience were assembled to witness the performance of a character in which be has acquired so much re , putation. We , do not recollect ever to have seen him to so much advantage. His voice had all the rich ness and elasticity of youth, .and his acting was both correct and spirited: be was rapturously encored in several of his airs, and the loudest applause through out his performance testified the value which the pub lic set"not only on bis past services, but on his Undi minished abilities. Miss KELLY was excellent in Lacy, and Miss L. KaLLY, who supported the part of Polly, was encored in two of her songs. The revived Extravaganza of Herlegria Hoax followed, for the second time this Season. In the scenery there is no change, except the necessary enlarrnent to suit the augmented size of the Theatre. l'he .only novelty is in the cast of the Piece. Mr. BARTLIIIC appeared in the part of the Massager, which be sus ' tarred with all the pbmp and dignity of office. Mr. Witt:4CH was the successor of LLYroa, in Harlequin, and acquitted himself with great ease and animation. Sir. RUSSELL had a still mere difficult task to perform. He had, as Patch (the author), to encounter the re. collections of KNtont's excellence in a character which he had made particularly his own. This seem ed to inspire him with emulation, and be exerted himself with considerable success. Miss KELLY re tained her own character, and played it with that sportive sprightliness which renders her so faminat mg. The Waltz was elegantly danced by Miss LAUNBIts Miss HARRISON, and Miss NZWTON. The grand pageants were successfully executed, and the piece closed in a blaze of fire works, amidst thunders of approbation. Tuesday afternoon a large blue flag stone was placid over the grave of Mr. SIMOIDAN. in Poet's Corner. Westminster-Abbey, with the following in eaription t RICKARD BRIVOLIT 31111RIDAN. Boca i 741, Died Ttli July, 1•18. This Marble bibs tribute of Lis attached Friend FILM Mortis. At the Finsbury Saving Bank, St. James's-walk, Clerkenwell, on Monday night last, a poor woman, a widow, who got her living by washing, made a dePo sit of £62—,INS of which was silver. • She bad can. , stewed laying by her money at the age of 28, add was now 56, during which time she never counted her snowy, because, as she said, she would not adore it. Tuesday as a poor man of the name of Franklin, but better kpown in the neighbourhood of Drury-lane by the name of the 0. Holy Fly," was going along Drury-lane in a state eE inebriation, followed by a -multitude of boys, as he came opposite a Mr. Boon's, a broker, No. 33, he was pushed upon the railings, which being very much decayed, gave way, and the poor man was precipitated into the area, by which hisleg was broken, and his head (upon which he fell) was fractured in a dreadful manner. He was then taken into a surgeon's shop next door, where his wounds were dressed, which was scarcely done before a pow woman, named Agnes Kelley, residing in 'White Hart-yard, was brought in with her infer.' child; she also bad fallen down, and to save the child, had thrown it on the pavement, by which it ' received several severe contusions, but the woman escaped unhurt. By the arrival of the Neptune packet, Captain CHSZSMAN, at Brighton, we learn the particulars of a fatal affair off Dieppe :—On Saturday the Nancy packet, Captain PARTRIDGE, from London, arrived off the harbour, where she lay all the following day without attempting to enter the port ; on Monday morning about four o'clock, a party. of officers, about twenty, trdln the Custom-hoose, took a boat, and went off to the vessel, and desired the Captain to bsing.to; this was not immediately complied with. when the whole party fired a volley of small arms, and the shots only damaged her ails. The crew of the Nancy were intimidated, and being =armed at the time, ran below for safety. Another volley was fired, and we regret to state two shots strUck the Captain, /Lae of which penetrated through his body, and the other wounded him in the wreck. The - officen boarded 'the vessel and brought her to the pier-bead at Dieppe, whore she was ezaminea, Mid not one article of eon trabaad goods was found en bear& The Capita died' in two hours after •he seta wounded, leasing a wife and ten children to deploy( his loss. .~ Hi tAti2itifiers. " - `J ' Paw/Mt LETTIIIIL • • . " istviataast, Ate" 14, L a g night, exacdiaaquarter before eleven on clock, the town of Inverness sea the sorrooodiag country was fearfully shook by one of she most useful pheno mena in the dispensadolea of Pnovlbhildr. an earth quake. C. and I were sitting arming tnether after supper, when we were suddenly startled, by one of the most sudden and unciimmen percussion, I bad ever felt, and which instantly suggested to us the cause. I:pd think of nothing that could give go I:4 an i of what we felt, as that of a person seated cm a hone, when he tuddenlrand vio lently shake( lksself. We flew to the street, where we found alma every Inhabitant, women end chil dren screatning, and a very considerable number of them naked. Many flew to the fields, and there re mained for the greater part of the night. Chimney loin were thrown down or damaged in every quarter Elf the town. The Mason Lodge, occupied ea en betel, was rent from top to bottom, the north stalk' the chimney partly thrown down; one of the cep kg-stones, weighing, I shbnld think, from 50 to 40 st:e. was thrown to the other side of the street, a. not less than sixty het. The !pin of the seseplei whith I think one of the handsomest in Scot land, has been seriously injured, and must in part be taw down. The spire is an octagon ; and within five or sit feet of. the top, the angles of the octagon are turned nearly to the middle of the fiat sides of the octagon immediately under it. What is more wonderful than any thing attending the memo table event, notwithstanding the vast quantities of utnass and bricks that have been thrown from such immense heights, not one single person has received say bort. - I have only further to remark. that it was not attended with any of those phenomena that have bleauid to accompany earthquakes. The Weather had, been bundle' and serene, and still continues so; no agitations or raising was observable in the river; and' k has been frequently observed, that in countries ebb- Jett to these awful visitations, the mercOry soddenly falls in the barometer; this I instantly attended to w bet no alteration whatever took place." • 'ROM Tile INVERNIXI JOUANAL. • Tuesday, the 15th instant, about twenty minutei before eleven, p. a. a violent shock of an earthquake accompanied with a noise like' distant thunder, was very distinctly felt here. Soine of the inhabitants', who had retired to rest were suddenly tossed one their beds, and many were terribly alarmed lay Universal shaking of the houses, the rattling of slates, and the tremendooterash of large stones which were precipitated with violence from many of the chimney-tops. Happily, however, from the lateness of the hour, very few persons were then in the streets, and consequently no lives were lost. The streets were very soon afterwards thronged with persons of all ranks and ages, who, without scrupulously wait ing for full dress, rushed at once into the streets, to avoid the apprehended danger of a premature burial under the ruins of their own habitations, and each anxious to know whether his neighbour s had expe rienced the same terrific visitation with himself. 411@I some fearing a return of ate convulsion, were run ning out of town, but did not knovf whither. The concussion lasted about twenty seconds. In many houses the bells rung for nearly a miaow. The at mosphere, during the evening, was clear and serene. and the thermometer stood at SP without any varia tion. In the morning, it appeared that the beautiful spire attached to the jail was, at the distance of seve ral feet from the top, completely rent, and twisted several inches round, in a direction from E. towards. N.W. As most of the stones detached from the chimney-tops appear to have been thrown in the same direction, it seems probable that the motion of the earthquake was from the N.W. towards the S E. ; because the motion of the undulation towardi the S.E. being communicated to the lower sooner than to the higher parts of the buildings, those parts of the latter whose cohesion was not sufficiently strong would naturally be left behind atict - •projeCted in *a N.W. direction. This opinion is confirmed by a scientific gentleman, well acquainted by experience with this awful phenomenon, who happened to be on the street at the time of the concussion. By accounts already received, it appears that the saute shock was telt at Dingwall, Forres, and Pittnain; but that it was more violent towards the north and west than to wards the south and east. It was also indistinctly felt , at Edinburgh and at Glasgow. Oa the 12th inst. a Gentleman in Ito county of Durham killed 33 brace and a half of moor game Last week, a chimney swallow was tacit' at High. field Moor, es white as the purest snow, and is now an possession of Mr. Norman, of the Blue BA, Carlide. Last week, a fine live turtle, weighing upwards of 50 lbs. was stolen from a West Indiamao, recently arrived in Whitehaven harbour. The quantity of salmon caught in the lay, daring the last fortnight, is quite unprecedented: is one night upwards of 3000 were taken. - Friday the Dee, WlEntaaa, with 12 fish, 70 Ma; and on Saturday morning the St. Andrew, Lain, with 7 fish, 110 ton/ of ok arrived at Aberdeen *al the Greenland whale fishery. The brig Granite ° SCOAGIF 4 arrived at Aberdatire• Tuesday se nni4ht, after a passage of about five grab from Miramichs bad the winds greatly from theist*. ward, but spoke no vessels at sea; left 4oading Ythan, CRAIG'S, expected to be ready for Mgt in week, and the Louisa, OSWALD, three days strived (rem Halifax. Tiinber sold at 30s. per ten, but was scarce, and expected soon to advance in price. At Lanark St. James's Fair, the Lambs offered to sale fell short, at least, two, if not three thousand of their usual number ; neither were they of she usual size or condition. The sales were, however, readier than had been expected. Few were left unsold, highest prices i 9 a score, but some were bought so low as AM. The hoeseaintrket was neither much thronged nor were the sales brisk. and, although the prices were reduced nearly one-third, many remained unsold. Wool was bide in demand at 7s. a stone. Sunday seanight, ii person, in a state of Wades tioa, entered the IlYou Church, Glasgow, during Divine Service, and created so much disturbanco to the congregative, that be was obliged to be- taken away by the police ; and next day ! . the Sitting Magi. orate fi ned him th ew pious, latish not being forth coming, he vits.,-cmoolitiad to itil, *hem, after re staining one sighs, be 4gried she sooty 'hot trai liberate,. -. . • a 7„,,.1.7 . .., . „. • - F.DIIC4TION 0# 400rEft OkbEN OP TilE METIW.PQLISs . MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN WORE A COM MITTEE OF THE NOUSE OF COMMONS. STATEMENT: TRANSMITS'S') Iv ML ALTIFIAIS TO THE COI6IMITTEIC. • (doadaued trout our Paper of Anent 10.) Children seemed to pay more attention on Sundits, but it depended on the' system on which the schbols were conducted. In some Sunday schools, the Telchers not only instructed on a Sunday, but, in audition, the most advanced scholars were taught writing aid arithmetic during the week; the scholars also attended regularly public worship, and were taught to reverence the Sabbath. Sunday Schools instructed those poor children whose time was fully employed in labour during the week days, and to them this was the only opportunity of gaining in struction ; the children also learned their lessons during the week, to repeat to their Teachers on Sun day.; and the Teachers visited the children at their own habitations, and procured the co-operation of , their parents, and watched over their conduct as' much as they could. He conceived it would be de. sirable to Intestigate the situation of the poor in the Metropolis, for the extension of the benefit of educa tion among them. It was the great excellence of the Sunday School system, that it employed gratuitous Teachers, who were incalcu'ably preferable to paid eachers, because they performed their duty better. ny of them were persons in respectable situations of life, and the children perceived the disinterested attention of their Teachers, and therefore felt a greater regard for them, nod paid more attention to astir instructions. Comparatively very few children is London were educated in the Parochial Schools. lie thought it would be desirable for the inhabitants of the several Parishes where they litre formed to in vestigate the state of the Schools, and to strperin tend them as much di lay in their power. Exclusive of resit,• sixpence a bead was as much as it cost per aura for teachiog a child in a Sunday School, in castling books, fire, candles, and all other expenses, e rent. If children were not clothed in Paro cmrSchools, a much greater number might be edu cated thin now ; the expense of clothing one child would educate several; be supposed nearly the whole uneducated poor of the metropolis might then have instruction. There were some few poor children in want of clothes to appear decent in schools, but 'they were chiefly of the lowest description of poor ; he thought most of the parents were. m general, very well able to clothe their children. He conceived occasional clothing, by way ot reward, would have a better effect than regular clothing at certain periods. because it would be unexpected and conditional. He bad known children excited to =cornmeal exertion and assiduity by occasional rewards. The poor very frequently claimed regular allowances as a gift rather than received them as a boon. Children in Sunday Schools improved exceedingly in their dress and ap pearance within a short time after their admission, — their habits of decency and order improved vastly,— became clean in their persons, and respectful in their behaviour, and, from being dirty, ill•behasted children, became decent and creditable. When they saw other children better clothed than themselves, they applied to their parents for clothes. and gene rally succeeded in getting better clothes. This cer- Lazily induced parents to be more industrious and hugal—they were very desirous for the creditable appearance of their children, and they often denied themselves many gratifications to procure clothing for them. He could sot see why the parents ot chil dren in day schools might not be induced to adopt the same frugality, and industry, a nd care of thei r children. l'he only difference was, that the parents of Sunday School children were more necessitous generally than those of Charity School' children, be le:Ruse they wanted their labour in the seek. He conceived all Parish Schools would be more useful if the .housekeepers and inhabitants properly looked lifter them, and felt an interest in their prosperity ; it would be desirable if masters, when they wanted servants, would see that they were well educated, and this would induce parents to pay more attention to the education of their children. CommodioUs school rooms were wanted very mush all over the metropolis. Annual examinations would stimulate the Master to prepare the children, and he should think the parish church would be a very suitable place in general for an examination. If any general plan for education for the poor thronglloatL - ondon could be adopted in the respective parishes, he imagined it would produce a •change very much for the better indeed, in the cha racter of the poor. In the schools to which he be longed . , he had fr equently obs e rved th e c hild re n v er y much amproved•ln their moral character, as well as in their condition. He very frequently visited the parents of the Sunday Scho o l children at their own habitations ; they were very grateful for the instruc tion their children received, and for the visits of the Teachees. The morals of children derived a vast deal of harm from their playing with idle and de praved children in the streets, and especially upon a ftnday, when childr en very often herded together, and initiated each other tato the commission of crimes, it being a day of leisure. It was one of the first in , they made when they wanted servants in trade, bow they had been educated ? and they were very frequently incapacitated from filling many situations , because they had not been taught when young.— Shopkeepers and Wholesale houses in the City, very frequently preferred youths from the country, to those born and educated in London, in various ca. pacitics of porters, watehousemen, and clerks ; and, to 'bort, in all the departments of trader and in gesicleal, as far as his experience extended, they were also preferred as domestic servants. They were pre ferred because their character was better known, their morals more frequently uncontaminated, and he thought the education of those sent off to town had been teach better attended to than those persons rein in London. He had heard - many intelligent men, who had had long experience on the subject, calculate, that nearly 1 0, 000 came up annually to Landon, to seek situations of all kinds. He shoidd Oak the majority of the principlls of the trading and etatasercial houses of the City of London came from the country ; aod be conceived it was well known, that the large proportiop of housekeepers in the City of Laudon came from the *Gentry, and 'most of therm generally without property. They had generally risen by their own went , from clerks, or Ism sway of am frost inferior sitektioar s . _ _ • their siltation io g ooc i vend Lord Mhyors bad risen frets ck —Parochial school* Might be rendered Wore good, if the peoturing of suitahl Viet children, when they kft the school, object of importance by the Governors He feared it was too often neglected were leftientirely to themselves when t dial schools. Li Sunday schools they often es, tamed sitaaltions for the children, either in th e i r evt ,„ businesses or among their acquaintance. When tht", km a steady attentive boy they generally reee ‘ onesded him to some situation where he was likely y be well attended to and prosper. Many of them h ie succeeded remarkably well, and become teach themselves . ; and many of them, from the lowest sta te of society had become respectable characters a i l filled usefdl situations, if not very high ones. It ye a , of the highest importance to contrey moral instructs e while communicating knowledge to the children, to knowledge, Unaccompanied by virtue, very t e , quently only capacitated for increasing mischief q) Society. No one, who had been accustomed to vita., the Scotch and Irish at their own habitati ons , have failed to observe a marked and decided disti n o: tion between them. The Scotch were const an o taught when young to read their Bible, and ac ein ... tomed to moral and religious instruction. From h K knowledge of the trading world, and of the chilo re of the poor, he thought a more ettensive plan ofo e . cation would be one of the greatest public beerk e. He had no doubt that it would lessen public criam i for the most guilty criminal characters were c osh monly the most ignorant; in fact they could not get them to stay in their schools ; they had sonoton ti gathered them from the highways, and brought th en into their schools, but they could never keep them long together. In Wales, owing to the g e n era l et , tablishment of Sunday Schools there, in one or tw o of the counties the prison doors had be en L i nn open, and he attributed it to education, b ecause nearly every individual throughout those counties attended the schools. The maid servants from the I country were in general very much preferred to Loie don servants, being in general decidedly of a better moral character, which he thought partly arose bun having a better education. Mr. THOMAS DAVIS, a distiller. in Oldotreet, St. Luke's, stated that he was acquainted with the Po , rochial School of St. Luke's, which was established in 1698. There was another founded in 1761, W addition to it, partly supported from funded pro pan and annual subscriptions. It had sow 46300 in tl 4 t S per cent. consols, and the yearly income of the no rage of the last three years, was £752 per alma. The expenses for the same period had been as mu seloo as possible--one hundred boys and eighty.fire j girls were now educated—within these four years sixty-five children had been added to the number.— They had only one master, who taught on the old plan generally. The children were clothed, but act boarded nor lodged. The schoolmaster's salary was 100 guineas a year, a house, and two chaldron and a half of coals. One guinea per annum was paid to 4he.mistress for the instruction.of each of the eighty. five girls. The Mistress had also the privilege of letting children work for the persons who wanted needle-work and such kind of things done. The es pence of clothing per child was nearly XS. 181. prr annum. The Trustees of the charity were chorea by the general body of subscribers. On receiving a Report by the Schoolmaster of Newgate respecting their school, he,considered it his duty as Treasurer to go to Newgate, and to make the best enqu'ry ht able as to the materials upcn which the Report was founded. He asked the master, Mr. Godinge, .how he came to suffer such a Report to gn abroad, 'hat in the Parochial School of St. Luke's they had five hundred thieves; • he informed him that the only foundation he had for so framing the Report w.ir from the information be had obtained from a boy young man there, of the name of Filby White, who was three or four years previous to that educated its the Parochial School—he went to Newgate a second time, but he could gala no further information horn Godinge. His Report appeared to be exceedingly unfounded, for he could not, on examining the Re ports of the convicted persons, find one other person who had been educated at the school but this Filby White. He was fearful that such Report might have injured the interest of the Charity very much, for in St. Luke's parish, independent of the Paroclio School, children to the amount of 1227 were edu cated by charitable persons, at different schools and charities. They had a gift called Worrel's Chario, which was an endowment of forty children—Fisher s Charity to clothe and educate twenty—he was Tre: • surer of that also, and there were children educat , d in the Workhouse to the number he believed of abn• forty ; there was another charity called FinslArry School, educating about fifty-two boys and girls; the Lancasterian School in the City Road for five hundred boys; Walbrook School for fifty boys and thirty girls ; the Orphan Working School ninety children; the Catholic School 160 boys and s;xiy girls—making a total of 1227 children. He had no doubt that there were a great many bad disposed out of so great a number; but it the, same time he found himself hurt as Treasurer, that all the odium of so many children should be placed to the discredit of 185 poor children. The master, who was of fifteen years standing, never knew but one child being discarded the school for theft : his name was Payne. On Thursday, the 15th blatant, at Mikon Hill, Beds, the Lady .of thonias Bowles, Esq. of a von. - 1)1ED. At Genes, Is Switzerland, on the 6th Instant. after a very short illness, John Turnbull, Esq. of Guildford -street, in the 7slv year of his age. July N, at Hull, Mr. Richard Pearson, aectlonVer, aged 66, after an illness of fifty years duration ! At sea, on his passage front Jamaica, on the 16th ult. Major- General Trevor Hull, in the ssth year of his age—Mrs. Hell, the Lady of the . General, died in Jamaica the 15th November. July 112, u Wilton, in the county of 1 americk, aged 116, Mae Madden. TM venerable woman retained her mental facultist to the bat. PRICE OF EMI flank Stock f 3 7 per Cent. Red. elf* Dino Cons. 61i Stiff t per Cents. 77 if S pee Cent. Navy 92444 MILK WAThit Tr Morn* Afternoon ES YESTERDAY. Long Amylase 16 1616 I India Stook India Bond 6 9 press. Exchequer Bills s 7 prem. Cons. for ace. 61 ffi aOW AT LONDON INLIDGS: 1 - 1 alio. after II • - - 40 ......... 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