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.V , O le . I 0 4,..- • •-• , ,--, - 7f . : 2 , -4, ,_-' • , I Or; 4.Ern_oajTa . - ~ . . -,- ~....,„. 1 •?', ' , S u-N , . .... „,,rr , , i . ~,.., ~.... .. _. , ~, i __ mu r - T - 1 1 - , X T T.% 0 , TN A N.r XT 11 li - T lr, -. .. - F- " j 4:: 9v. NUMBER 8811 .] ER 22, 1820. [PRICE SEVENPENCE. EDUCATION. P77:0 j) V ICTUALLING-Y,41111, N0v.18,1820. t r IESE are to give Notice, That on Thursday, dithe 301/i of this 31nath, at Ten o'Clach in the Forenoon. ll 4e exrwed to PUBLIC at His illaiesto's IC" illi nA , Ytird, Dept Card, sundry Lids the . foliowinif ~i,( 4.IIS IONS and STORES, now lying in the said Yard, itil(,readi , Bread Dnst, Flour, Flour Sweepings, Raisins, it e .' Pease, Pease Screenings, Oatmeal, Oatmeal Sweep- Barlev, Scoich Barley, Mustard, callavallCCS, VUOUSC Sm;rpings, Beef, Pork, Suet, Sugar, Bunter, :11 - "e, Vinegar, Bags and Hag', ',eager, Butt. Puncheon 9 () g`' l teatt, Barrel, and Half-Ho , Thead Staves, Heading, &c. C ,il urY Lots of S erv i cea bl e Fi r Pil e Heads, Broken WrOught ron de Hoops, Screw Bolts, Plates, &c. cP 9ll( p u.s, eel 251. per 'rat. is In be 'mole upon the amount 'St at . the time of Sale, and the remainder qi the par i„; !e•-inV7ley to be 'midi...fre the Stores are deliecred,for which . / ..,; ( :?'"e a peri m l offourto x working days will be allowed ,ot"i,the da l of Stile ; the Bailers particularly o bserving that 48 tittf/I one hay . of the *quantity is to be taken away lot Stitt 14 e fir s t seeen days, and the remainder . in e the sevn tt 1"g days, ntherwise the Deposit Money be..fadeiltd, Cr o ,, t ' e Provisions or Stares remain the property of the (. 4 3' till extension of time will, on any aceoititt, 6 e master to worse than Egyptian slavery, fur it is increasing tit tale of bricks, as well as giving 110 straw. There is another very important point (t view in which these Clauses. are highly objectionable, ,I mean in the de gradation which they inconsiderately inflict. The present masters of Grammar Schools, are for the tuo4 part scholars and academics, all in a creditable, many of them in a highly respectable sphere.—Aniong our principal schools it would be difficult to find an instance where 1 he master is not, sometimes by birth, always by habit, education, and manners, himself a gentleman, and living among the gentry of his neighbourhood on social terms; be is engaged in a liberalprofession, in teach ing the principles of that literature by which his own mind has been polished, to the rising generation. He is generally a Graduate of one of the Universities, in many cases by the express statutes of his School he must he so; fur the most part a scholar, frequently a ripe and good one. Now, Sir, on what principle of equity and common humanity is such a maa to be degraded to the office of teaching English reading anl spelling, which after all any old woman will probably be' able to do with better success ? Is it just, that men, tar whose care the, country owes all that is tasteful and elegant in literature, all that is refined and acute in intelligence (fur the foundation of all these things is laid under their instruc tions), should be debarred both of the exercise and reward of their talents and industry, and condemned to this hope less, helpless, jojles!, and I may add, fruitless and needl e ss drudgery? But you say, they may do this by deputy. When your take away the profits of their industry, and the means of increas-• ing their income by " !uniting or forbidding" the reception of boarders, where are they to find the means, from the scan ty pittance of their original salaries ? But this leads me to another part of the subject. ('l'o be continued.) ne 9 1),)1 idle 1, Ali i vi i ;;le 1,1301,1, A LETTER to HENRY BROUGHAM, Eq. M.P. on certain Clauses in the EDUCATION BILLS now before Parlia ment. By S. BuTLER,D.D. F.A.S. Head Master of Shrews bury School. 11.--4 have now before me copies of two Bills as amended by the Committee of the House of Commons, one of which, dated July 13, 1820, is intituled, " A Bill for better p`rovid lug the Means of Education for his Majesty's Subjects;" the other, dated July 14, 1820, is intituled, " A Bill for ituprov log the Administration of Endowments connected with Edu cation, and for the better fulfilling the intentions of the Founders t hereof."—l intend to make no observations on the former of these, and only mention it for the sake of distin guishing it from the latter, the final Clause of which enacts, that both these shall he construed together as one Act. it is to sonic of the. Clauses contained in the second of these Bills, that of July 14, 1820, that 1 particularly beg leave to call your attention, because I conceive them likely to lead to results most unjust and oppressive to a very laborious and deserving, as 'well as highly useful class of society, the Mas ters of Endowed Grammar Schools in this kingdom, and also as most directly opposite to the princil•les professed by the " the better fulfilling the -intentions of the Founders of these Endowments," and completely ruinous to the interests of literature. . . I used the term results, that I may ke clearly under stood as not intending to cast any personal reflection on your self, by the strong - epithets which I am obliged to adopt when speaking of the consequences of these Clauses. And I beg, Sir, once for all, plainly to disavow any intention of ar raigning your motives, though I must in certain points highly disapprove of your measures. EVC. I I were I to conceive the former not of the purest kind, I hope i am above using vio lent and intemperate language; and I really pay you no com pliment when I say that I think your labours have already pro duced some, and, if duly modified, are likrly to produce still more good. Having said thus much, which appeared due both to you and to myself, I will at once proceed, with your permission, From the LONDON GAZETTE of NOV. 21• ~U~ •~us~h 1 ~; !~e ~~}~i ;ru L 1 b' igil 41 Frhitehall, Nwv. 20, la2o. The King has been pleased to direct Letter% Patent to he passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great lifiain and Ireland, for presenting the Rev. John Moore, Master of Arts, to the Arehdeaconry Of Exeter, void by the translation of the Right Rev. Father in God, George Bishop of Exeter, to the See of Linco ln. 1 0 14'1 to 1 , to 11 cl; to 0, to ' 51'. o 5114 s t a 41° I Os r ot, cr cwt. r(ir• . t ho ale caP i. : 5 pt :I_,,q S. to 55 pJ to 55 d 31 15 '0 11 8' 41 u l OS 11 ii' 6‘l 41 1,4„6,' .1 to e s 14.. i to °5 to ... A to ';'3 i 6. to - to (Pt to 1 ", to ' ll E i" t o :3 2 ° A " to to 3 v - A, o 9 .."1 to to )V.. l3• p. ithlCa e '4l -4) 0 ,1 05 0 ,1 o 5 !ID. g : ) usil . ~n4 ..••• 's FFF 121 ig, e Ist rio/ i by 6 , rivet' one• [ls b e ' fiel,ls LOURSE OF EXCHANGE, Nov. 21. n orni e wai ule , )ortaw o~ scl. diddi'sl%' fr. NU ge Geo r r ' ter ;oder• .$ re , ' 49 ' t i bY , rif Ord' BULLION. r r , • p/cs 0an.v...,..GE. dish/ 11-20 • PlI BLIC are, hereby informed that qp,. 1 , 14 1Y-seven I'L.VI'ES of the ORN A EUBV DNC sEY it)f '"• - i•T mu FAIN, earl ied on under the Superintendence am/ A 4" Lte Major-General WILLIAM Mt IDGE. LL.D. FR. 111,,:' , 5, are flo w col - 111 00e, and that IMPRESSIONS from oo Sale at the ORDNANCE. ALAI' 01' FICE, in the " „ ' t of LONDON, and also at WILLIAM FADEN'S, 447' 4 1' 1 1er to his Majesty, and Agent to the Board of Ord- CH :XIZANG-CROSS. P LATEN Cunt :du the Comities of Kent, Essex, Ilaists, D o r se t, Devon, and Cornwall, Mr`d proPor- Cl 4" Somerset, Surrey, Pembrulse, Cardigan, Carnoathen, Wilts, lierlis, Mioldiesex, Sultu;li, Hertford, and p ar t 1 X• containing nearly the whole of Pembrokeshire, Ist,:r r tions of the adjacent Country, was published on the tu rd 4 ogust, ISI9, and as the Work is still in' prop ess, 'g to the origin a l Design of giving a complete Map of I , 4 4V; c ritai n !wn a Scale f onefollow inch .as fast as to a Mile. he tur,. l i r B i° l l of the o lot e parts will toe 'tna -14141 Su ch a Work will amit, without increasing the an perise. d r ii „,, , ,'. ll einen wi s hi n g 't o procure a Map of the Country sur- ItAKI,"I4 their own h a bitations, may, by application t. Mr. at the Ordnance Map Office (where an Index p ur s w ill shewn) seleot any sheets they please, for that Letters on this stibject, addressed to Mr. Baker, under tviii i t : to the Secretai y of the Board of Ordnance, Pall Mall, Lc i mmediately attended to. By Order of the Board, It. H. CREW, Sec. XCIIANGE YOUR •piurts for UN- - DRAWN TICKETS AND SHARES. TWO OF 'rwENTY THOUSAND POUNDS! 44 (1 a. variety of other Capitals, 'Consols and Money, IN THE WHEEL! And must all be drawn I\ ll NEXT TUESDAY, 28th NOVEMBER, e n the Lottery will entirely finish, and GISH'S Contract terminate. Qr 'lle fate of every Ticket and Share, sold pribr to the 15th ember, was finally d ec id e d by the drawing Of that Day; • Person, -therefore who hare already purchased 'in the Lottery, are recommended to inquire the Fate of Numbers, in order to exchange their small Prizes for •,Jadrawn ,1 shares. n'AititANTED UNDRAWN TICKETS and SHARES by T. Sole Contractor, 4, CORNHILL, • CHARING-CROSS, London, who - iltaled and sold, - the First Day of th e preZent Lottery, . " 1,03 Ciao+ A. .... Prize of .... 20,0001. 'Consols and Money; and in the Enst,L.Ottery, etc • and,by 3'"s.. • •Prize of ..., k. his Agents in the Country. , I°l ' MADRAS atid BENGAL, with liberty to call at ‘, MADEIRA, r . - \,.. The remarkably fine SHIP, LADY ' LUSHINGTON, ALEXANDER SCOTT, Commander, lying in the'City Canal. Bur . then 650 'tons. This Ship was built and 14 1 1 eri o fitted up 'for the East India Trade ; has very ~urßr Accomm o d a ti o ns for Passengers, and carries a 1 1 :1 1 ' hl k :ireight or Passage, apply'toiG. H. GIBBONS, 42, St. lard' let or ? to CURLING nd DOME L'l, 10, George 'Ann ha d-st rect. Ar ' FRONISED by her MAJESTY, their 'llsi e '" ) ,Yal Highnesses the Duchess of York, and Duke of thei r His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, by ( 4111,. - P e cial au authority, and by must of tho Nubility and str l ikop LANDhrough 'S M out EAuroCApe. v SSAR OIL, the Original and Gc %IN; w arranted to afford the greatest notaishinetrt to the b "tte ?I,"air-prevents its being injured by change of ch 4nd 11'ness, travelling,: &c.—removes the scurf., harshness prevents the hair falling off :erturning grey, l uft; — "lces a thick growth on bald plarses, mahes' the hair 94,d cu rlY, and glassy, preserves the ,cirtil in - damp weather,. 4 , 0 oices wleiskers and eyebcows---rOce as••Gd.--75.-10s. 6d. A l He Guinea per bottle. ling ; 4, , R OWLAND's ESSENCE of TYRE.—By merely wet % 'e Hair with thi s pr e paration, the Proprietors Warrant li,, i r r touce immediately a perfect change in Red - or Grey . 141 4 ,`. W hiskers, Eye-br o ws, to a beautiful glossy and '° on BroWn oe Black, imitating the exact natural ;er ktt . - Washing makes this I)ye more durable. -Ladiesot • may dye their Hair with ease and secrecy. Price IL ---and 10s. Gd. Pr op wholes a l e , re t a il, an d f or ex p o rtati o n, by the sole sirXtctors, A. ROWLAND and SON, cornier of Kirby 11,41,'_the first turning on the right, in Hatton-garden, 4nd 1\ 4 , 11, ! London ; and, by appointment, by all Perfumers i ‘ ediciti e Venders throughout Europe. W LAN!) and SON respectfully caution the Put:lie, - ittit k - t t . ll "rly those who are travelling France, against spurious to th e ' u ,ns, composed of deleteri o us i ng r e dients injurious 'lair. To prevent the imposition, ask fur Rowland's is si Rowland's Dye, and observ e th a t eac h genwirre 'bottle :o w Zed on the outside label, in red ink, ‘. A. ROWLAND witkout that signattmc are counterfeits. f&ll'ls t tel444l . • 0 1 itt Si gi kitttertlat —'- i 2 $ . 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By a Clause in your Bill, p. 4, it is declared and enacted— " That the person or persons having the power of appoint ing the master of any School Founded or Endowed for the teaching of Grammar, and who shall have appointed such master, may, if he or they think fit, make a bargain with are said master as they can agree together, by force of which he s!ball bind himself to teach, either by himself or an usher or assistant, reading, writing, and accounts, to such persons and on such terms as shall be agreed upon, be side teaching grammar, according to the instructions and di rections of the founder, grantor, devisor, or testator." By the next clause—" That it shall and may be lawful for the person or persaaa having the appointment of the master of such Grammar School as aforesaid, as often as the place of such master shall be vacant, from and after the passing of this Act, to order arid require that the person to be appoint ed as waster shall, without any further consideration, teach .by himself, or by an usher or -assistant, reading, writing, and accounts, to such persons, on such terms as the said per Son er persons so appointing him to be master shall think fit to prescribe, beside teaching Grammar according to the intentions and directions of the Founder, Grautur, De visor, or Testator ; and in case such master, after befog so limn, riled, shall not so teach reading, writing, and accounts, in the mariner so prescribed, then ire shall be removed from his place by an order of the Lord High Chancellor, Master of the Rolls, or Vice Chancellor, for which the person or persons aforesaid having the power of appointing such was ter, is and arellereby authorised and empowered to apply." By the next—" That if in any . Foundation, Endowment, Gift, Devise, or Bequest, connected with instruction of youth, a limited number of children or other persons. are di =rected to receive the benefits thereof, and no more, it shall i and may be lawful fur the person or persons having the ap pointmetitarf schotilmaster, mistress, or - other teacher there in, and , who shall have appointed such master, mistress, or teacher, to -make a bargain with haus or Iser, by force of which he or sire shall be bound to teach any greater number ,if children or persons on such aerms as shall be agreed on ; and it sir and may he lawful for the said person err persons having the power of appointing as aforesaid, as often as the said place of master, mistress, or teacher shall be vacant, from and after tire'passing of this Act, to order arid direct any waster, mistress, or teacher whom they shall appoint, to teach such numbers of children or persons as they may think tit to prescribe, and upon such terms as they may think fit to impose, and to apply to the Lord High Chancel lor, Master of the Rolls, or Vice Chancellor, for an order removing the said master, mistress, or teacher from his or her place, in case of disobeying such order or directions, after he or she shall have beers appointed; which order the said Lord High 'Chancellor, Master of the Rolls, and Vice Chancellor, are hereby authorised and empowered to make." By the next—" That it shall and may be lawful for the person or persons having the appointment of master, mistress, er teacher of anyEuilowed School whatsoever, as often as the place of such master, mistress, or teacher shall be vacant, tuna and after the passing of this Act, to order and direct what number of boarders such master, mistress,' or teacher shall take, receive, or entertain in the house in which be or she may reside, uuder the said Foundation or Endowment; and if they think , fit to forbid altogether the taking, re ceiving, or entertaining of any such boarders ; and such per son) or persons are hereby authorized and empowered to asp-• ply to the Lord High Chancellor, Master of the Rolls, or Vice-Chancellor, for an order, removing the said master or mistress, or teacher, .disobeying such direction or prohi bition, after he or she shall. have been appointed i which order tire said Lord HigliChancellor, Master of the Rolls, and Vice-Chancellor, life hereby authorized stud empowered to make." The first of these Clauses provides, and in common justice it.could do no less, that IP.; master who was appointed master of a Grammar School shall be obliged to teach English read lag., writing and artatunts, without ins own consent. This at least was due to him, that he should not he the victim of an ex post facto law; if he pleases, he may justly say, non bxc in feedera Yetli ; and it will be his own fault if he clauses to he the voluntary instrument of his own abasement. One important fact, however, •is acknowledged by this Clause, which, if I mistake riot, you were not at all thanes au ready to admit, I mean the clear and undtMhted distinction between Grammar Schools, that is, Schools in which Gram niar and the Learned Languages are taught, and Schools for teachini ,, English reading and writing. It is a great tiling to have Irris clearly, plainly, and distinctly recognized, though I urn afraid it will lead to a conclusion fatal to the title of your Bill. Now if Grammar Schools are Schools distinct (ram Eniglish Schools, and yet if the Bill requires that English reading and writing shall be taught ins the former, besides Grammar according to the Instructions and Directions of the Founder. I do not see how such Bill can be tray well en titled a Bill for tire better fulfilling the intentions of the Founder. For if 'there be any meaning . inn words, and ally force in logic, the Clause which provides that tire master shall teach English reading, writing, and aceonnts, besides Gram .mar'aceording to tire intention of the Founder, acknowledges that the Founder did not intend that English reading, writing,. and accounts, should he taught in his School, but that he intended to found a School for distinct and different purposes. Surely, Sir, the Founder intruded to found a Grammar School, or be did nut. If he did not, why has it a name which does not belong to it ? He might as well have called it a stable, an hospital, or an apothecary's shop. But if ire did intend to found a Grammar School, then to engraft au English reading and writing School on it. is no better fulfil aient of his intentions, than to add to it a Dancing, School or a Music School. Tine master of a Grammar School hold• his appointment for a specific object, the teaching of Grammar arid the Learned Languages; and whether lie holds it under deed of Gift, Will, Settlement, Act of Parliament,or in what ever manner, if lie comes tliere legally appointed, and con forms to the Statutes which are to govern him, he fulfils the specific purpose which the Founder of that Endowment in tended should, ne fulfilled ; in other words, lie e• fulfils the intention of the Founder hereof," and he will no better ful fil it, by teaching English reading, writing, and accounts, than by teaching shoe-making or house-painting, or any other extraneous business. Should any one attempt to argue that the engrafting an Epglish reading, - waiting, and account school on as.Gratuanar school is only aft enlargement of the founder's intention, I must beg leave to remind him, that after the rectagn.tion of Grammar schools, as distinct from English schools, such an argument would be wholly inconclusive. I have used the terms him and any one, because I wish clearly to mark that I cannot for a moment. suspect a man of your acknowledged talents and acuteness, of baying recourse to an argument so utterly illogical and absurd. By parity of reasoning, such an arguer might " order and require" all future masters of Grammar schools to teach French, Spanish, It ussian, Sans crit, Armenian, Coptic, &c. &c. &c. for this would wily be an Enlargement of the founder's intention, though you and I should certainly not call it a fulfilment thereof. Suppose, Sir, you were by will, (far distant be the day when it should be carried into effect) to found a school for a speci fic purpose, for instance, teaching Euglish reading, writing, and accounts, and were to entitle your school a School for teaching English, and should give directions as to the conduct of the masters, the boys to be admitted, and books to he taught ; and suppose two hundred years after, some candidate for popular favour should get op in the House of Commons, and say, that although you expressed nothing about teaching Latin and Greek, you certainly must have intended that these should be taught, and should enact accordingly; would you, if you could have any sense of what was then doing, think yourself fairly dealt by; would you not, if you could speak from your grave, say, My purposes wete to have English taught, and not Latin and Greek; what business has poste rity, at the distance of two hundred years, to pretend to un derstand my meaning better than I understood it myself, and to construe it in direct opposition to all that I have myself declared ? How dare a man overturn the sanctity of a will hecause it is 200 years old, which he would not presume to violate if it were of yesterday, and what succession or what property, is secure for a moment if this principle be once ad mitted It appears, therefore, Sir, either that the title of the Bill is a misnomer, or that clauses which are designed to promote the objects specified its the title, have a directly opposite tendency. If the title stands, you must leave out these clauses. But if the clauses stand, and you wish fur consistency, you will only have to alter two words in the title, and instead of " better fulfilling," read " utterly defeating," for at present the one is utterly irreconcileable with the other. The three parties concerned in this Bill are—l. The found ers, or at least their representatives, who, acting for the founders, are supposed tohave the same views acid intentions —2. That masters Time public, 1. e. the parents of buys entitled to the benellts of the foundation, and their children. I have briefly considered how your Bill affects the first of these ; and I new proceed to the second class. And here, Sir, a 4serson less liberal than yourself, may perhaps accuse me of selfish And interested motives, as I have the honour myself to be included in this class; I therefore think it right just to remark, that as your Bill cannot affect me without my own consent (always supposing the clauses to stand as they now are), and I am not likely to be a party to my own degradation, I cannot well be influenced by such unworthy consideratious. A fair and candid judge will consider ate as cowing forward front higher and purer motives, itt a case in which I cannot be personally affected, to defend my successors its tights which I have received, and which I think it becomes me to transmit to them unabridged and uninjured. I have, Sir, also, still higher and purer nu)- ! tives than these, arising from a zeal for the interests of piety , and literature," of sound learning and religious education a zeal which has beets fostered during the bug discharge of *sty professional duties, and which I hope will continue to grow with soy growth in years and strengthen in my mind even amidst bodily infirmities and decay. It will, I think, be conceded by all those who ate capable of forming a correct judgment on the matter, that hew bodies of men are more usefully or taore laboriously employed, or more moderately paid fur their continued exertious and heavy responsibility, than the masters of our endowed Grammar Schools. Having themselves received a liberal education, and bein?: ' as a collective body, certainly among the must learned of this country, the stipends they receive from their endowments are seldom more than sufficient to provide them with the necessaries of life. Much the greater number of these endowments do not exceed 1001. a year—and few indeed are above 2001; Can it be expected, Sir, that at man of tido catiou, competent to educate boys for the liberal professioas and for academic pursuits, to form their morale and direct their taste, should starve upon this pittance without any other resources ? Do not, Sir, suppose that lam an advocate fur lavish and excessive salaries to be given to masters—far from it :—I conceive that the present moderate stipends are better calculated to produce the proposed object, than sums of much greater amount, because as they are at µresent, fur the most part, absolutely inadequate to the proper maintenance of the master and Isis family, they compel him to exertion, and pre vent his making his office a sinecure. But I contend that nothing can be wore oppressive and unjust, than to give him a salary on which be can barely exist, and prohibit his im provement of his income by that fair ;arid honest exercise of his talents which has hitherto been the:customary and esta blished practice of the country. Must School-houses are built expressly for the accommodation of boarders, and when you cut Off this resource of a master's income by " limning or altogether forbidding" his reception of them, you paralyze his exertions, you cramp the sphere of his utility, and reward his meritoriousness and activity with indigence and privation. In many cases, Sir, it is provided that the Masters of En dowed Grammar Schools shall be graduates of - one of our English Universities ; in souse, Ipay instance this School for one, that the appointment shall vacate a fellowship, (as I va ' cattail mine accordingly.) Do you think, Sir, that a succes sion of academic men will be found to ,undertake the direc tion of these Schools, when they are &graded, fettered, and reduced to the :miserable pittance anal the laborious drudge ries to which your Bill would bring them? And if such a succession of men as have been indicated by the founders cannot be met with, do you think you shall better fulfil the mtentious of theie founders b substituting worse ? Why did they provide that the masters should he academic gradu ates, but for the sake of taking all possible care that they shold be competently learned men ?—Why did they want Learned Men but to teach Learning ; such learning as may prepare . the mind of the scholar for his academic course ?—A Master of Arts is not wanted to teach A, B, C, nor is it in human belief that they ever could have thought of subjecting their Masters to such a degradation. • If you say, that the master of an endowed school is not to take • boarders to the prejudice and exclusion of foundation boys, I quite agree with you ; but this is a very distinct case, and apparently not contemplated by the Clause in question, in which the power is given of limiting or prohibiting the re ception of boarders, in broad and unqualified terms, and may be exercised without appeal, as the caprice or pique of the patrols may suggest. But I must go one step farther, and assert, that it by no weans appears to have been the intention of the founders of Endowed Grammar Schools that they should be wholly confined to boys on the foundation. That it was not so at the school over which I myself preside, 1 can prove by the most satisfactory evidence: I can prove that the very perso❑ who drew up our statutes to be approved by our prin cipal founder, aml which were approved accordingly, admit ted foundation boys and strangers indiscriminately and with out limitation ; for we still have the lists in his own hand• writing. What may be the case at other Endowed Schools I know not ; but I know what answer ansalte., and co►vmoit sense dictate, and I have little doubt but that in almost all Schools which have preserved their earliest records, a similar practice will he found, ab MAI.; to have prevailed. 1 consider, therefore, this Clause, giving arbitrary power to patrons to be exercised at their caprice without control, as She must.usons trous and oppressive species of tyranny. Neither is this all ; fur, havi►ig reduced the master to his original foundation stipend, cud cut hint oil' from al! hopes and power of increasing it, by forbidding to take boardei s, , another Clause provides " that the Patrons of any founda tion connected with the Edocation of youth, (and there fore including all Endowed Grammar Schools) wherever a limited number of Children or Other Persons are directed to receive the benefits thereisf, and no more, may order and direct any master, mistress, or teacher whom they shall up point, o teach. such. number of children or persons as they may think fit to prescribe, and upon such terms as they May think fit to impose." Now, let us suppose a school is limited to teach twenty Children or Persons, which I suppose means adults in contradistinction to children, and that the master receives sixty or eighty pound* a year for teaching these; by this Clause the Patrons of the foundation may say be shall t each twenty, fifty, or fire hundred inure, Without any increase o f salary : fur both the number to be taught, and the terms of • caching, tite left to their Lliert:tion. This is reducing the Whitehall, Nov. .21, 1810. His Majesty has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting unto the Rev. James Wood, D.D., the place and dignity of Dean of the Cathedral Church of Ely, void by the death of Dr. William Pearce, late Deau thereof. - Commissions in the Regiment of Royal London Militia, signed by I►is Majesty's Commissioners. of .Lieutenantcy fur the said City. Captains Thomas Redmond, Robert Parsons, William Taps pen, William Gurney, Thomas Diggles Bayley, and George Browne, all late of the Royal West itefiment of London Mi litia ; Captains John Deschamps and krederick John Meard„ late of the Royal East Regiment of London Militia, to Le Captains. Adjutant Joseph Tatham, late of the Royal West Regiment of London Militia, to lee Captain by Brevet. •Crgrtain-Lieutenant James Deans, late-. of the Royal East Regiment of London Militia, to be Captain-Lieutenant. Lieutenants John Croft, Samuel Tarratt,William Maunder, William Hamilton, Janice Berkley, Edward Williams, John. Steele, all late of the Royal West Regiment ut London Mi litia ; Lieutenants George Cressall, John Allen, James CI ow.. ther b and John William Barton, late of the Royal East Regi ment of London Militia, to be Lieutenants. Ensigns ‘% illiatu Tomlin Walker and Thomas Heath, late of the Royal West Regiment of London Militia.; Ensig❑ W. B. Durnford, S. Nicholls, C. E. Grindall, it..Dallinger, Jas. Dears], jun. and J. T. Coleman, late of the Royal East Regi ment of London Militia, to be Ensigns. BANK RUTIN. W. Horseman, Bridge-street, Bract:friars, Loudon, men. -chant, to surrender Nor. 25, Dec. 9, and Jan. 2, at eleven, at Guildhall. Atturnies, Messrs. W. and D. Richardson, Walbrook. J. A. Hunter, Aston, Warwickshire, dealer, Nov. 9, 30, and Jars. 4, at twelve, at the Hen and Chickens llotel, Wr tuinghatu. Atturnies, Messrs. Clarke, Richards, and Med calf, Chancery-lane, London; and Mes64ll. Webb, 'Tyndall, and Rawlins, Birmingham. W. Tuck, Marlborough. Wiltshire, carpenter, Nor. 44,9, and Jan. 2, at the Town Hall, Nlarlborongh. Attorney, Mr. White, Pewsey, Wiltshire. J. Flinn, Liverpool, merchant, Dec. 5, at two, 6, and Jan. 2, at twelve, at the Albion Inn, Hanley, Staffordshire. At totnies, Messrs. Anderson and Mousity, Hanley; and Mr. Barbor, Fetter-lane, London. It. Peate, Oawestry, Shropshire, wine merchant, Dec. 12, 14, and Jail. 2, at one, at the George Inn, Liverpool. Attor-, Ides, Messrs. Lowe and Bower, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; and Mr. Gunnery, Liverpool. H. and K. Treffry, Liverpool, chemists, Dec. 4,6, and .Tan. 4, at eleven, at the George inn Liverpool. At tornies. .111essrs, Blackstock and Bunce, King's -Bence-walk, Temple, London ; and Mr. Morrow, Liverpool. 11. Hunt, Liverpool, haberdasher, Dec. 7,8, and Jan. 9, at one, at the Star arid Garter Tavern, Liverpool. Attor nies, Mr. Wheeler, Castle-street, Holborn, London ; and Mr. Mawdsley, Liverpool• G. Taliourdin,. King's-Bench-walk, Temple, London, money-scrivener, Nov. 24, Dec. 16, and Jan. 2. at one, at Guildhall. Atturnies, Messrs. Amory and Coles, Lothhury, London, IL Hulse, linckley, Leicestershire, grocer, Dec. 4,5, and .Tan. 2, at eleven, at the Bull's Head-inn, Hinckley. Attor riles, Mr. Ware, Gray's-inn, London' and Mr. Seulthorpe, Hinckley. T. Barker and .F. Hudgins, Hop Ground Brewery, Strat ford, brewers, Nov. 25, Dec. 9, and Jan. 2, at ten, at Guild hall, London. Attornies, Messrs. Fisher and Monday, I. ur- Holborn, Londoti. T. Bury, Exeter, factor, Nov. 48, Dec. 19, and Jan. 2, at eleven, at the Globe Tavern, City of Exeter. Attornies, Mr. John Terrell, North-street, Exeter ; and Messrs. Darke, Church, and Darke, Red Lion-square, London. A. Johnstone, Palmer Village, Westminster, bricklayer, Nov. 25, Dec. 2, unit Jan.. 2, at twelve, at Guildhall, London. Attornies, Messrs. Denton and Barker, Gray's-inn-square. W. Prentice, High-street, Southwark, ironmonger. Nov. 25, Dec. 2, and Jan. 9, at twelve, at Guildhall. Atturuies, Messrs. Handley and Lister, Gray's-inn-square. J. Brown, Great Carnyidge-street, Hackney-road, timber merchant, Nov. 95, Dec. 9, and Jan. 9, at tens, at Guildhall, Attorniea, Messrs. J. Turaliuson, Thomson, Baker, and Smith, Copthall-court, Throvoortori-street. DuEL.—A tluel of a serious nature was fought on Saturday in a field at Child's-hill, near Hamp stead, between Mr. M—, a young Gentleman studying anatomy, and a Mr. C—, iu conse. quence of the former having attempted to elope with the sister of the latter. The parties fired without effect, and after re-loading, an adjustment of the affair was attempted in vain. In the second fire Mr. C. was wounded above the hip, and there are no hopes of recovery, as the ball was not ex. tracted yesterday morning. FIRE.—The house of MuNc kSTER, Ecq. at Billwood, six miles from Barnet, was discovered to he on fire on Sunday night. The servants were out, and the family are in London, The flames were discovered below at seven o'clock, and the whole was a heap of ruins in an hour. It is not known tow the fire originated, but the conjecture is that some clothes left to dry u ere the cause of it.