The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-07-08 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN. bide bath enabled the 1 7 ,11n1s of Edmeationf .iter from the brood vira)s of destruction to the ... of order, hap,iness, knowledge, and peace; I q f p there to join iti the holy chorus to that sal Name, who said to those who did not feel sum- ; •It for the poor little ones, sutler little children unto me,atiti forbid then. not.' 1% . hat thelif sro's has already etfocted, is the education of near Iwndred and twenty thousand poor children ; !ism of whom will ri,e up to bless his name, and be ,arks to the throne of his house, and blessings . people of his love. As long as inscriptions on i v, e . cUbISINNEN, J une 19. have this day the .happiness to possess, within ton e shall last to exhibit his piety and regard for ! our walls, his Majesta the Fasperor N APOLEON , w h o he poor, as long as a pagc of history shall be fo und or his faith and good works to be recorded , so long continues to review the different corps of the grand b a il his memory be blessed here, and in all nations. army. His Majesty eoje,ys the best health.—(Gat. d a v the glories of his eternal crown c o mpen sate f a r dc France ) June 30.) thorns of his temporal one : may his name live `r ever, and his Samaritan work be universally fol. baal, is the public and private, the Pitmen and hum p, desire of his faithful otllxtifautic friend, and difti/ subject, JosEPtl LANCASTER, Who has had the hamtiness not only of etfecting hi , pious wishes to a great extent, hut even of sroesing the law Drones from their beds of ease to try what Tun can do. The exertions and libora!ity of Major A (the Chairman), and the generous zeal of lip rest of the Committee, demand my public thanks a friend of poor children. They have done more n mehytv L i.ea a cup of rod water to the little Polity, in no wise shall they lose their ki. a. he op :a. ;card." Tneir that.lss to the Thke of NORTIItt3InEnt.AND, r generous p Aron of this Royal Jubilee S.:hool, (I f4e motiiii , T;of founder and supporter of that, so •:;.nilly co:Marto& at Altivvick, graces the pages f the annual rpnrt of this school, made and pub. shed on th. anniversary of the Royal Jubilee Day, Si I. My heart jair in the expression of gratitude a Par of the most exalted rank and d',:nity, who IL:, so much to the honours of his descent anti rank, . that coll eens for education, that firmness ia sup. . i tiugit, and that lore of religious liberty, vrhich is honourable to the ancient and noble name of t.acv, so beneficial to the poor, and exemplary to nation. . .._....... Boyce Jrl rl e School, Necrestle-on-Tyne l Ist of .silt Mn. (MQ3), 1812. ••mood: w!,:eo are not to thew wM beet, the . la 74/ the poor are d.l.m.d to • , tip d re d iny o f d e n y kbour, tsie #ll 'Prier ii knowledge will make chess onlotp pri I di•Mn•rntrd in their !W. It snit Sc ,, tlund. In carrying on which glorinns weeds the f)eites of K V:T Id tratrir, fhe Dohs of Ilsorinn and Lnrd tiosthants.c. the Irt• I • nt*t.rrr,r., MOM •• NW, t AP vttArrr, and a long list t noble. and worthies of the empire, have all acted Host t •_______.: _ POE TR Y. We like this opportunity of noticing genius, and are pleas , tl with being able at all times to do any iie4 that shall fan the spark of curly talent into a .121 e. The following lines arc extracted from a Vo lac of Poems, written by a south of sixteen t--- THE TONI li OF AN INFAN Thrice happy thew who early fall. Who seucrly draw their feeble breath; puss view the gloom that frownson all, &ad sweetly sink is friendly death. ..Is crystal dew drops. purr and fair. Adam the Dower. at break of day, • Drank by the son, olii,•ritse is air, Awl shine on Iris' varied ray. they as pare, to fair, as meet, .lust snit.e, and , c•trcely learn to sigh; fleaven's favour. then, with mildest beat, Transports them gently to the sky. rtev know not death's dissolving pangs, Which softly sets their spirits free; lind while his friendly arrow hasp, (live life nod immorality. While heavenly cherubs watch the tomb, Where lies the dust in placid sleep; Why will ye monrn his early doom, Why, bending user the cbapletn, weep? leteqi it spirits ! wipe away the tear, Voce e , cry gloomy thought away; !till love the Arras( that mourns thy bier, And cheer with thought of endleta day. Vet, let thy parent dry bey tears, And on it the stroke in mercy given, Taste comfort from thy early year', And bless the hand that snatch'd to lien, n. A • oftcr bed than she could give, TO,. grave upon thy dose c m: r e m.- To die—•l3 but metro glad to live, .Ind J elms' bosom kind 89 hers!. trerart from Poem, on various RatVerts; alk, by Longman, 011 , fut .. , Rftl, Orme, varl Brown, l'aternoster.role lathe PROPRIETORS of LAST INDIA STOCK. VID OEVTLENVII• TY conformity with my intention to become a Can• .! for a Seat in the Direction of y nor Akin's. • moe,l. d I , v the very tivosseihie reception I have met vitt Is P m np c - ievv. I am induced to oder m %felt' to y no•iee ri.rctit Varrinr V. Of Irlit.loDrot be the lamented death of worths frieitl. Mr. Will MM.. itlid revert fen v to solicit %oar inicrest. I.nng and isisprovel ...Twin. and experience I import inl hronelte4 of dour COIICCrIts abr.% t, particularly OM , Verrone, ('etsimercial And Mediae. lodger me to It •pe 'on ovt comider me qu .116.. d to bear a pill in the osimiai.srm• yoor a(sirs in Oil. Country. Purleit a.r to Clat Mouli I he hohnhle.l with roar e- int the "t*a`itin. a fantaill di...Wirer of the delis , shut mar derisive nn Pet mid an mideri o attachment tin• attachme lo lbw* prioapleop td may ••••0 promote the true imereets of toe Last India ConsimuY, • all be say romtant •thdv. 1 hare the homier to he. Lodi^ nod Gentlearem, Your most obedient and devoted seernut, Itt)Bk,lt C CLA;UK. urSP% rant' r-st rett eiy 11/. 11141'!. Jews 2(1. His Majesty the Emperor is still here. Ibis Ma. jesty employs himself in reviewing all the troops which are stationed in the vicinity.—(Journal de l'Empire, July 1.) In the beginning of his work, LA vcArrEft had his system to invent and to execute. His movements to plan and effect. His funds to raise and create, and all this to begin with only twenty shillings. No dif. ficulty appalled him—subject to smiles and frowns, I he regarded nei•her one nor another, and what is the result ? The education of one hundred and twenty ! thousand poor children in the country, and schools in train to open for 10,000 in London. So much for the merit of his work, may many be found to excel him ! However he has not only the credit of labourinx ike a bee, but he has also made the very drones attempt to imitate his example. He has provoked a rivalry which does no credit tp the motives of its authors 1 and abettors: for it cannot be honesty to rob a Dissenter of his good name to decorate the Church; #e t . It will do good to the public in the end,— I ' He has made two ears of corn, for mental bread, grow where one only grew before—he has made something out of nothing, by unmufiling Professor, . Meaux, and tu ft ing hun nog that boll in favour of raftarrw.—ln the Advertisement for the Salt of a Sunday New.pae-r, which appeared yesterday, for exteasive concern, mid r ..teinive et rcuration. A rr, Malls. Dior. 1 o 0 _ OF STOCKS 'THIS link per Cent. Cons. 5.41 per Cem. Red. 56i 4 pe► Cents. 71i Per Cent. Navy esil la.g. ANL 14i OAT AT ()NY. O'CLOCK. Indio Knock 3 dis. lizettegiver ISllts Sid.) dis. Ditto W.. 4 5 yr. , thnuoto. 1 pr. Consols for Acct. 574 Lottery Tickets THE STATESMAN. LONDON WEDIIESDA To iff&T Sp • VII& Paris Papers have reached us to the 2d instant, and private letters to the 3d. From these it appears that BONAPARTE had left Keningsberg, and proceeded to Gumbinnen„ where he arrived on the 19th of June. This city is sttuated on the left of the rivr Pissa, 28 education, which before was only tised,by its " drote. leagues from.Roningsberg, and only a few mile; from sj tinkling to lull the distant folds" of the sheep the Russian frontiers. Ahout 40 miles distall is of the Church to sleep. lie has made MARSH leave Tilsit, on the Niemen, where it seetw, proLabh' Ho- off his controversy respecting war, so ill becoming WAPARTEIS pursuing his course to meet the Emperor his profession, and has compelled him to think of AicitAsiuta, and where it •is likely another treaty general education, for almost the first time in his life. may be concluded, equally fatal to the interests of LANCASTER has not only educated the children of this country as the ones few years ago entered into at the poor by thousands and teas of thousands himself, this famous city. but he has made the enemy either really or mord nallN zealous in the same cause. The goof he has done the Church of England is beyond eapression. In 1715, there were 3000 children only instructed in London Charity Schools, and these schools then of recent date. In 1809, they did not educate 6000 children:* In the coarse of near a century and a half, from the first establishment of Charity Schools, they, scarce educated one boy in four years ; and thus Iboo poor instructed children were probe. bly all that they (allowing an unfair average) turned out annually for the good of society, among VIE PROGRESS OF Tiff. LANGASTERIAN SYSTEM. i a population of a million of people. In the reign o f ' Bzrust Parretti, Bishop of London, whose an. ! In writing on this subject, we are not ab ou t t o : 1 common . seal sh o ne among the rich, and br o ught praise an individual, but to State facts, and leave the reader to feel their weight. I crowded audiences to churches in the west ; in the' The instant that a building was needed for the ; year 1795, there were reported near 8000 child ren ; in SChools in London ; in 1809, not much above I first school on the plan invented by haulm LANCAS. ! 6006.-.—SO Dr. BELL, and the friends of his plan,l Tan, he advanced out of his own pocket the money for defraying one-half the charge of it. I had the merit of decreasing the number of child r en inl o In governing his family, he treated the young per- 1 parochial and ward schools of London, by near sonsth under his care as his own children--an altos. PY 2000 in number ; but what .better could a .s ys. tion which, in worthy minds, excites a reciprocal i tom of ignorance effect. In 3796, there were not affection. By this means he obtained an authority that ; thirty thousand children in charity .or pa r o c hi a l operated when at a distance, and some of the worthiest ;schools in all England, when, at that time, there young men in the country are now filling very re- ! were 200,000 children in Sunday schools ; and in , spectable situations, retaining the same affection as i 1809, the Society for Promoting Christian know: when unc!er the paternal roof. ; ledge had an income of 17,0001. per annum ; in ad dition to which, the charity schools in London alo n e Ile bearded a number of these at his own expence; ! did not cost less than 7 or 8,0001. per annum, If and from among them vvere found the first school- ! : all the clergy of England had set their wits to work masters the country have had from this school—many, , to educate the poor, it would only have been a child of them young men who I.ave now from four to seven and a half a piece for them, aid they might have hundred children under their care . ! The publication of his books were productive of 1 saved all this income for the public instruction :of the lower orders. But they hate fractions, and considerable profit ; he devoted nearly the whole to his public work. I love to deal in whole numbers. Vet, on this princi. Ile began travelling and lecturing through the i Ple' if they had contributed but a guinea a-piece per countr . lie trart-rited the empire, and not only j annum, it would have been sufficient to have educated y lectured to many thousands and tens of thousands of : allthe children in charity-schools in the country ; and persons, but devoted the whole profits of his lee -1 the public money would have been saved. Even the i tures, amounting to above five thousand pound'., to Archbishops of CANTERBURY, one after another, the public work in which he was engaged. preached in favour of education, but did they prac- The least thing that common justice would require, lice it. Even in St. Mary, Lambeth, parochial : would have been, that his travelling comfort should school, in 1781, there were 50 boys, and not one have been provithd for, and his travelling expences 1 girl instructed in the parochial school. In 1807, fully paid. Instead of that, his comforts have been when Dr. BELL had been ten years in England, the comparatively few ;—gaing by night in the winter ' Lambeth school %vas in stalu quo; and it was not till season, lecturing often six evenings out of seven, I 1809, that the school was extended to 70 children. and travelling all night repeatedly after lectures, ; Since then, if the Archbishop has been more zealous, we have no d' de to thank but LANCASTER for it, in must have btomi no small privations of personal comfort . ; conjunction with Mr.Witerearan who first mention and sacrifice, to say nothing of the vitae of time, and *danger to health. Indeed he suffered two severe and !ed his name in the House of Common ; and yet a dangerous illnesses, from this very cause. I certain Peev said, in the House of Lords, on that ! occasion, there was no want of education in Lam- In making these exertions he has given up time and talent freely and fully, which, turned to his odors;beth. We mention these cases of supineness, to advantage, in any line of business, would have accu- t s'ew what electric fire LANCASTER Las put Into mutated a fortune. i the Clergy ; to dew what a renovation and 1 Nothing less than a pe r s o nal vi s it to all the reformation he has wrought amongst our most leading towns in the empire, would satisfy his zeal i zealous divines. We call on all who hare the for the work ; Ireland, Scotland, and England, brier . honour of acquaintance with orthodox Clergymen, full witness to this. Manchester, Birmingham, m in. :to consider the change from supineness to acti burgh, Dublin, Glasgow, Limerick, Cork, Bei.l vity, and give their thanks to the man against whom fast, Tralee, Swansea, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Not.: the ignorant advocates of ignorance cry out " clan. tingham, Leeds, and places t oo numerou s t o men. ; ger to the Church," when their present activity tion, have had the benefit of his labours. In many 1 proves the danger to have existed only in their own !lawns his exertions alone gave birth to a school, or ! past laziness, for which they ought to give credit, schools. In many cities, the i ns t an t h e e n t ere d a t 1 and vote united thanks to the man whose zeal has one end, ignorance took its flight, and bigotry . kindled theirs—whose magic touch has awakened them from their sleep by day, and their slumber by quaked with fear at the o the r , I n man y cases th e entering of a town, and the g ivi ng a l ec t ure , proved night—and who, if their Church is saved from the ' the means of opening the hearts an d p urses o f th e !ruin of their hands, will verily and truly be its sal -Ipeople ; and, if four hu n d re d children were in the 1 vatioe. I trail) of ignorance on hisentering, efficient measures 1 The opposition he has met with has been a power were taken to place them in the path of k n o w l e d g e ' ful stimulant, his incitement to more duty—his op- I'before his departure. In many other places he ably , portents, however, have had but few brains as most, seconded the wishes of a benevolent p u bli c by his 1 of their sermons and attacks are only arguments fur ' exertions, and universally with approbation and nished by Mrs. Tams= ; and, as every body 1 success. Schools are established in North Ame- knows, she bad none to spare, it is not to be won , rice ; the way is opening in South America ; the plan dered at that even Professor Manse should shew his is extended to Attica; schoolmasters are training weakness in this, as he did in his opposition to the for that Continent: it has made its way to New Bible Society—we kstow how pure his motives are.We Holland, and measupes,are now taking that it shall call upon that Clergyman's friends to say, whether travel to our Antipodes, and visit New Zealand, by , he Would mind being hooted out of a University, means of a person who has spent most of his life in provided he could be hooted into a Bishoprick ! that country. LANCASTEft, then, has invented a system, and has practised it in. his own neighbourhood; he has echue cated tens of thousands of the poor. Ile has tra velled over the kingdom, and roused the public mini 'to a sense of danger from the ignorance of the lower orders. He has never done good without doing ho nour to his Patrons. He has cemented the mind of 'the People to the Monarch, by the affecting display of his virtues and regard for the Poor. By Mem. bars of the tnivetsities of Dainhurgh, Glasgow, Dublin, and Cambridge, he has been highly ho noured, and gladly welcomed. In evmercial town' ) be has had many to advocate his cadge, and walk ill I the way he has cast up. He has given the whole ctir I the ptime of his life, for nearly eighteen years, with., out fee or reward, for the cause of education ; praise I has never made him forget his duty, nor censure I shaken his firmness. lie has always been at his I poet when there was work to do. Frowns have not applied Mm. The fears of his friends and his elle : ones have been his football, thrown before Mm, and g iving way at his advance in the path of usefulness ~__= i ,,.., for 18 years. Six thousand pounds, the pretbree of hig labour, the introme of his book, Aare been hi, rer sone! sacrifice.—The Messing Heaven bas grtoted on this is the education of the chiltlren of tile *pre•tent and future times, perlops o,l* the rhule Tor)! Id! Ms reward has been thethaaks .4 his count:y. the :fp plause of his conscience, the antrobatiott of his Gon. In fact, he had nothing else—ft:r he has ex pended 801. in one city, and 1001. in soother, and so in many more; but in all the Empire there arena! three places which offered to bear his travelling CM. ponces—certainly not from want of gr ttitude, but want of thought. having no; completed his career in the country— he has yet to visit occasionally Schools for ten thou sand children, in London. This will not occupy much of his time. lie will have leisure for his new establishment, his Boarding School at Tooting, to which we call the public attention. We doubt not but that some of the o•Mexak's of the day will• cavil at this undertaking; they will say LaneAir= is in his tent s and show their ov'n bra vado in the field; but they will find more may be done, and mare wal be done, in ihe tent than in the field, and that the day is fast approaching, when their complete and public defeat shall cover theta with shame and endless confusion. And now a word to the Friends of Education and of LANCASTER His personal concerns have long been neglected for the public good. His private du ties to his own child bare long been undone. Haring acted as a foster parent to the children of his coun try) leis public work now admits of his attending properly to his own. It is for them, if they feel the value of his public services, to second his exertions in the line of private duty—the faithful discharge of which can alone set his mind at liberty for the public work yet before him, the success of which his enemies would not believe, even were it told than. He lately said, in a public meeting, he had vi sited Ireland; he " had 'touched the harp of Erin to the tune of benevolence, and the sounds were those of melody." This visit to that country was not without great personal sacrifices. The very interesting llistory of the Rise and Pro gress of the System is now at press. It will have plate 3, if two thousand copies are subscribed for, which will 'make it valuable in the highest de gree. As soon as the work advances a few sheets, the press can no longer be kept open, and the sub scriptions to the book will close. It will be a kind ness in the friends of the system to promote the subscription to the extent of the number of copies named ; and as there is but little time, to make the most of that little, it is very probable, from the de mand, that few copies will get into the hands of booksellers till a second impression, which, un avoidably will take some time in printing. We are glad 'to find that his new Institution, which is an individual concern, will be likely to pro ' duce a considerable improvement in the mode of con veying instruction in the superior branches of learn ing, and be a benefit to that class of persons, mho, so much to their honour in this country, Lear the chief weight of educating the children of the poor by their steady benevolence. We close, by saying, that the Kr so's wish has been most ably realised by LANCASTER, who has not a Quaker, or a proselyte in his establishment. His object has not been, the desire of self a4grandise meet, but the good of the poor of his country ; and the happiness of the whole human rim-. The Paint REGENT returned to Carlton House yesterday, and brought accounts from Windsor," that the KING was much better, and that he had been very much composed during the last jew hours." By the Phipps schooner, from New York, in 2% days, Government has received dispatches from Mr. FOSTER, the contents of which have not transpired. It is expected that the letters brought by the schooner will be delivered in the course of to-day : the dates from New York are said to be of the 11th ult. A new treaty of Defensive Alliance between France and Prussia has been published in the Berlin Gazette, of which the Treaty of Utrecht is made the basis. It is framed with a view to the enforcement of BONAPARTE'S Continental System. A Morning Paper states, 64 that a plan of opera tions adopted bylhe Russians is that of a purely de fensive war; and we hear that Lord CantcAar is forthwith going to the head-quarters of the Russian •Army, invested with a commission from the British Court, that gives the idea of a thorough understand ing being re-estabrished between the Coarts of Lon don and Petersburgh, and that we are, at least, to assist with our Councils, if not with our money." POR.TSMOUTU, JULY 6.—Mr. JOHN SLOANE, ait American Gentleman, arrived here this morning 'charged with dispatches from the American Minister in London to that at Paris; and immediately em barked on board the Grace cartel for Morlaix. Mrs. PEt.t.rrimand Holm, embarked on board the same vessel. A heet hasjust appeared from the westward, supposed to be the homeward-bound Mediterranean, under convoy of the Victorious. The Newspapers have been, for several days, dis. cussing the point, Whether the audience, on Mrs. Srenoas's taking leave, expressed a desire that the Play should terminate at the end of her last scene. ..ittesu the summing up of all the evidence, on both , sides, it manifestly appears, ,that the interruption srose merely from a knot of 0. P.'s in the pit, who wanted the sleep-walking scene encored. This pro. duced a violent opposition from the more rational • Npert of the House, which was fancied behind the cur. , tame into an inclination that the performance of the play should close there, as a compliment to the re. tiring Actress. 'This error, however, was soon cor. rected, by the general demander the play proceed... ng to its regular termination, and the tumult which folloeed the nou-compliance with this requisitioy • . 1 t' ;1". I , I/ , ~~ I! I T ' 1 1 ; ;• . 1 r ~~~ , i ,~ F toi i' ,