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Cetuor and Vixen, ;tut brigs, and severil revenue cutters.
rum Ts WOVTII, APRIL 16.
Arrive, the Acosta -tnd Camilla frigates from Gacnisq.—
Wind Westerly, blows fresh.
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At Liverpod--the Polly, Stringer, from Noali Carolina, and
Hope, Morton, from Lisbon
At Waterforl—the Prince Edward, NrCabc, from Oporto.
ju the Texel--Jane and Cornelius Duff, from Batavia . Nan-
cy, Wilson, from Sunirain ; Redress, Autor, from George-
town; Neptune, —.--, and James, lulgu, from Charles-
town.
At Antwerp—the Betty, —, from Philadelphia.
At Creunria—the Buean Amigos, from Buenos Ayres.
At Barcelona—tlo Jane, Taylor, from Leith.

I.ast week jaw; Yasuo was committed to York
Curie, on a charge of making use of inflammatory
and seditious words against our Sovereign Lord the
KING, with intent to disturb the public peace.

EXTRACT OF LETTER FROM THE ASTRONOMER
ROYAL, reorc.,soa BODE, AT BERLIN, TO HIS
CORRESPONDENT IN t ONDOPP.
64 The Astronomer Harding, assistant to Dr.
Schroeter, on the I:th of February last, has seen
again, through a seven feet teleicope of Herschel,
at Lilienthal, in the Duchy of Bremen, the move-
able star first discovered by Dr. Olbers, at Bremen,
on the 2tlth of March last year, and which soon after
was observed by several other Astronomers under
272° right ascension, and 7° N. declination, exaetly
where Dr. Gauss, of Brunswick, by his calcula-
tions, had detenbined it to be.
On the 2d of February Dr. Olbers also ob-
served it, through a five feet Dollond ; it appeared
pale, like a star of the 12th magnitude. Mr. Har-
ding could not sec it through one of the best three-
feet Dollond telesibpes. According to the situation
and the run of itstcourse, this moveable star, which
the discoverer proposed to name Pallas, may be al-
' lowed to be an extraordinary planet ; ire have, there-
fore, discovered two planetary bodies, Ceres and
Pallas, placed at the same distance-from the Sun,
where, in consecpence of the harmonious proportions
" the planetary spheres, only one was expelled these

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THE POOR.
EXTRACTS PROM THE REPORTS 01P THE SOCIETY
FUR BETTERING THE CONDITION OF THE POUR.
EXTRACT FROM AN ACCOVNT OF THE PRF.E.CHAPEL
SCHOOLS IN WEST-.STREET, SEVEN-DIALS. IT
JOHN DOVGEN,
On the 3d of May 18W.), there were opened in
West-street, in the parish of St. Giles, day schools
for 200 children of the poor in that neighbourhood.
They have since been increased to the number of
10 children. The schools are of the established
church, and conneded with the free-chapel in West-
street ; and arc either kept in the house adjoining
the chapel, and belonging to it, or in the chapel it-
stlf, %acre the children attend at the times of di-
vine service on Sundays, morning and evening, and
Tuesday evenings ; and also on Thursday mornings,
from nine o'clock to one, being the time fixed fur
their public examination.
For the education of each child, the parent pays,
in advance, a shilling a month.—lt is curious that,
in these p:iyments, until the severe weather came
on, there had scarcely occurred an arrear of a shil-
ling, from the first opening. Some failures in pay-
ment have since occurred, but not in many instances ;
and though the payments amount to 13 shillings a
year for each child, yet the rapidity with which
those vacancies have been filled up, and the appli-
cations that are daily made for admission of chil-
dren, give some reason to believe, that, if the school-
house were adapted to receive 500 children, instead
of 240, it would soon be filled.
As it will show one mode,, in which a general and
national system of education for the poor might be
adopted at a very trivial expence, I will state the
outgoings of these three schools, and the funds by
which they are supported. 'fhe'only persons em-
ployed in them, are a master, and two mistresses;
dividing between them the charge of 240 children,
colleded in three separate schools ; each of which
occupies one of the three upper floors of the house :
floors which, it must be confessed, arc not sufficient-
ly commodious for so large a number of scholars.
The salary of the master is 501. a year, and of the
two 'mistresses 521. and 301. a year ; which includes
their board, and every other incidental expence ex-
cept coals and candles for the schools, and the clean-
ing of the house. For these three articles the mas-
ter is allowed 161. 10s. a year. The charge for
house-rent, &c. is 501. a year. Of books, paper,
&c. the annual expence is about 151. To this will
remain to be added the sum of 901. for clothing 90
of the children, who are the nominees of annual
subscribers of one guinea each, or of benefactors of
ten guineas each.
Before I had stated the expences of these schools,
I should have observed, that there arc also, on this
establishment, Sunday schools for 100 additional
children, who are not paid for by their parents.
The children of all the schools attend in .the free
chapel on Sundays', and lead the psalmody of it
with a degree of correctness and intelligence, that
must surprise any one, who considers the short
time which they have had to learn the tunes, and
how unpromising scholars they must have beensit
the first. Their progress is owing chiefly to the
school-master, who possesses not only a particular
talent for instruction in sacred music, but a singu-
lar pleasure in teaching it. The singing is also im
proved by a weekly pra&ice after Tuesday evening
le Lure, when Mr. and Mrs. Gurney, and their
children, and about fifty of the congregation, join
with much benefit and pleasure.
The total expenditure of the day-schools and
Sunday schools, being 2831. los. is provided as fol-
lows : Ist, by 841. of annual subscriptions ; 2dly,
by 1561. paid by the poor for their childrens educa-
tion, at 13s. a year for each child ; and 31:11y, by the
produce of two morning and two evening charity ser-
mons, producing together t 501. making together
a total of •~yol and leaving a trifling balance to an-
swer contingent expences. When the cost of cloth.
ing the 90 children is deducted, the current ex-
pence of these schools for 2,40 children, and of the
Sunday schools for 100 children (in so unfavour-
able a situation as the centre of St. Giles's), will not
exceed by more than 371. 10s. the pavments#which
the parents do willingly make for their childrens'
instruction.
OBSERVATIONS.
In my observations upon these schools, I will ex-
clude all general topics, and not trespass farther on
the time of the reader than by a few brief remarks
upon the peculiar features of this recent experi-
ment, with resped to the education of the poor. It
will not be easy to name a local situation where the
remedy was so much wanted, and where circum-
stances were so adverse to the success of the expe-
riment; and yet through the conduct and attention
of the Rev. Mr. Gurney, and the intelligence and
assiduity of the master, Mr. Nerves, and of his
wife, and the other school-mistress, these schools
have, within nine months from tie first proposal of
them, been established with a success which pro-
mises increase both in number and effect. It may
be proper to inform the visitor of the schools, that if
he is desirous of viewing a splendid establishment of
pupils, a striking arrangement of building and appen-
dages, and a surplusage of well-appointed instrudors
and attendants, with handsome salaries and commo-
dious apartments, he will find nothing of the kind in
West-street. The size of the house, and the extent
of its funds, and above all, the object of the experi-
ment (which is to produce a pradical mode, in
which the advantages of education may be univer-
sally extended to poor children at a very moderate
expence) have made those funds, which in some
parts of England would not have been adequate
to the sustaining of a single master with one insu-
lated pupil, the means of clothing 90 children, and
of extending the blessing of education to 240, and
of a Sunday school t to the additional number of
100 more children.
The visitor should be prepared to enter school-
rooms, apparently too small for the number of
• This has increased the congregation at the Free Chapel,
not only on Sundays, but at the Tuesday evening lectures;
many of their parents attending oat It cariosity at first to see
their children, and to hear them sing. Of the* parrnts, the
greater part are now become regular frequenters of the chapel,
and devout and attentive hearers.
t The sermon. a►e in May and November; the lamer were
en the 14th of the preceding month of November, when the
collection, from an audience of 1000 persons, the greater part
of them the poor that neighbourhood, amounted to 281.
lls.
/ The Sunday Schools are occasionally diminished in num-
bers by a circumstance, by which in effect they atc promoted
and encourage/ ; the vacancies in the Day Schools being pre-
ferably supplied from Use mit deserving children of "the Sun-
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• scholars; but yet without any sensi.lle incorisence
attending them, while they
,are regularly cleaned
and ventilated.—He must expect to see a number of
children, many (except on Sundays) in mended, and
some in torn apparel ; but if he will attend the in o-
gress of the school, though he will not perceive any
ibrced and immediate change in children who have
been so neglected, yet he will view with pleasure
their advancement in cleanliness, decency, and-order;
and his observation of the progress which he sees
making, will probably induce him to give credit for
something having been already done.
'1 he effect of the Thursday's examination, which
continues from nine to one o'clock, in giving energy
and aelivity to the childrens' minds, is very strik-
ing. In the last instance in which I attended it,
there were 220 children, ranged in eleven rows ill
the pews, in front of the clerk's seat, which was oc-
cupied by Mr. Neeves, the master ; the two mis-
tresses being attending in the side aisles. One row,
consisting of rather more than 2') children, stood up
at a time. The employment of that morning was
the church catechism, divided into short queries,
and attended with explanatory observations, and
questions, on the master's part. When each child
had been examined in its turn, another row stood
up, the attention of the children having been pre
viously relieved, by their all singing a verse cr :570
of some psalm or hymn.
On another day, they were employed in reading the
6th chapter of St. John's Gospel, accompanied with
similar questions and explanations, addressed to
them in such a manner as to lix their attention, and
to improve their understanding. A Lady, who has
several schools under her proteetion, was so much
struck witie the manner and efred of this examina-
tion, as to request Mr. Neeves to endeavour to pre-
pare a written specimen of it, in order that the ex-
periment might be tried in her own schools.
It is to the very general establishment of parish
schools in Scotland, and to the power thereby given
to parents to obtain the essential part of education
at a moderate expence, that the Scotch are indebted
for a very valuable part of their national charaCter.
North Britain, (says a Scotch writer') struggles
with many natural disadvantages ;—the climate is
cold, the sky seldom serene, the weather variable,
the mountains bleak, barren, rocky, often covered
with snows, and the general appearance of the
country very forbidding to strangers ; yet by an
early attention to the education of youth, to form
good men and good citizens, she has uniformly
maintained a high charaCter among the nations ; has
been always deemed an excellent nurse of the human
species ; and has furnished not Soldiers only, but
Divines, Generals, Statesmen, and Philosophers, to
almost every nation in Europe."
• Mr. Frazer's Memorial in behalf of the pamchisl school-
masters of S.:otland. See Hints ua Education, lately pub-
lished.

BONAPARTE has made rapid progress in his fa-
vourite plan of diaating the system of education.
for youth. More than twenty thousand young per-
sons are gratuitously instrated in the Prytances,.
and the other schools ; the proprietors of boarding-
schools, who have not given any pledge of fidelity
to the Government, have been obliged to remove
their pupils to the boarding-schools attached to the
Lycea of the Departments. This measure will pre-
vent parents from instilling any principles into the
minds of their children but such as are conforma-
ble to the wishes of Government ; and the fear of
being considered as enemies to the FIRST Cossut,
will make them submit to the rights which .he
usurps.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT GiIILDHALL,
To-MORINOII/. N. W.
S. Shappard, of Marlborough-Areet, Carnaby-market,
victualler
M. E. Most, of Old Bethlehem, London, merchant.. 2 1
John Tench, the younger, of Tokeuhouse-yard, mer-
chant • 10
John Drayton, of Carshaltou, Surrey, victualler 3 1l
T. Arnold, of Canterbury, Kent, clreesernouger 2 .10
1)1VIDF-NDS.
Thomas Mitchell, of Hattor

Jo-court, Threadneedle-street,
merchant l4
Peter Woodward, of King-street, Cheapside, warehouse-
man
A. J. flnulton, of, St. Mal 61014211 C, upholder lO
Jame, Griffith,, of Fleet-market, vintner l4

MARK lED.
On Wednesday last, the Rtv. C. Manesty, of Pocky,
Fletks. to Miss Watson, youngest daughter of the late J.
Watson, Esq.
Lately, at Bath, the Rev. J. Bird Sumner, to Miss Ro-
bertson, dit..hter of the late Capt. Robertson, of the Navy.
Lately, Mr. Rutley, of Dover, to Miss M. Hindley, of
Bath.
DIED.
On Thursday last, in Wigrnore-street, Mrs. Feat.
daughter of the late Governor Enke, of Durrington, in
Essex, in her Sad year.
On the 7th Oaober last, at Brodera, in the East Indies,
Lieut. Col. C. Gray, commander of the 75th Regiment.
Yester-lay morning, R. Lindsay, Esq. of Hampstead,
formetly of Cli.irlestown, South Carolina.

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