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greatest enconragem
frauds of smuggling.

to illicit distillation, and the

The Edinlm.Th Courant says, 't We hear that orders,
a
have been gii, .to tit up proper apartments in Edin-
burgh Castle ta-,the reception of the stateprisoners, from
(;lasgme.• They are expected to-be soon removed."
CAS 14,411N7 THE. RIOTT.R.-.--PreVious to the execu-
tion of this unfbrtunate man, he got a friend to write,
out a list of the different ships on board of which he had
served, together with his claims upon merchants; and
upon the Government; in. which it, is asserted, that ti •
years' pay, at the rate of 11. per month, was due to him
front the owner of a transport, in which he served; that
7 months' pay, at 31, las. per month, was due to him
from .a ship in which he afterwards served ; from •
another ship, 5 months' -pay, at 51. lOs. per month; that •
he afterwards served on board the Fitaltorse and Maid.
stone. frigates; that he was entitled to prize-money
fro:a the Seahorse, but lost all his i3swers in a schooner
in which he was taken in an, action off the coast of
America, and carried into Phandelphia ; on which oc-
casion he was wounded, and under the surgeon's hands
for a lung time. He afterwards states, that he was
wounded in three places in his head, in one of the prizes •
of the Maidstone. My father (continued he) was
killed in the Diana frigate, and left my mother with
six of ur, d'o had a little boat that we used to go a.
fishing. in to get a -living." His mother and three of
her child-va • were afterwards obliged to go and beg•
,their bread. He allowed her a pound a muntle which'
she did not receive fin- four years. He served on board -
a transport, which, while he was on leave of absence •
went .to sea without him; and he lost all the wages
due to him there. When he was paid off from the
Mrllstone frigate; be says he wrote to the Lords of the.
Admiralty fur assistance ; they told hint hemust alp( ar
himself before them; he did so, -and was sent to thJ•
Transport hdurd ; there they told him they would,
write to the surgeons; and when he wont to the sur-
geons, they told him to go about his business. The-
above is ass abstract from the statements which Cash. •
man left behind him, and to which he has• put his ,-
mark; They are all very confused, and without dates. .
'To mentions.tha names of the.Conmumders of -the4di-
xlichlcsavet.•

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MARCH 17.

if:►T4 RESPECTING A PLAN I.OR Ti-IL EMPLOY-
MENT OF MEN Ulu LEARNING,,TALENT, AND
INGENUITY.

TO THE EDITOR.
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Sin—Amongst the numerous Institutions for the
amelioration and improvement of mankind, in times of
general safTering like the present, there does not appear
to be one directly devoted to the interests of such men
of learning- and genius as are either wholly une:nployed,
employe I to very little pitrpok,, or to sonic parpose
unworthy ortheir condition in life, and the education
they have. acquired.
Permit ma, therefore, to throw out a few hints,
which abler pens may improve and act upon, for the
establishment of an Institution calculated to give such
persons as these a fair and rational opportunity of em-
pleying their literary and scientific attainments in such
away as will prove Lcrlotioial to themselves, and useful
to the community at large.

I believe no argumentation is necessary to prove, that
at this time there are great rovnbers of persons • whose
only stock in trade, if I may be allowei the expression,
is that of a good. education, or a valuable and excellent
genius. Of this cast there are many youngmea.from
Scotland—some from' our own Universities—many
Clergymen, with livings inadequate to their support in
that sphere of life in which their profession requires
them to move—many from the various Dissenting
academies, seminaries, and public schools—many more
young men, possessing what are called anturo/ talents,
devoted to various branches of arts, science, and gene-
ral literature,--and lastly, numerous persons who, al-
though they have " seen better days," now possess no
means of maintaining themselves by trade and com-
merce, but who could, had they an opportunity, turn
their early education and inventive talegts to some good
purpose.

_
Education, alas ! does not always (though I believe
it does generally) screen its possessors from the tempta-
tions arising out of penury. Hence talent, if not use-
fully emoloyed, is too often devoted to some mischievous
purpose ; and it is a lamentable fact, that many men of
sound learning, anti in other respects of correct conduct,
are to be found in this metropolis, who, having no better
way of employing themselves, are tc:npted to prostitute
their literary and other acquirements to the support of
principles and measures whinli, in their sober judgment,
they utterly disapprove. This mental prostitution is
of the most de.grading and humiliating nature; but,
alas ! it is not uncommon.

The plan which I pmpose for the alleviwion, if not
the removal of these and other evils arising from want
of opportunity and patronage afforded to poor men of
learning, is briefly as follows :
Let same man of opulence, liberality, and greatness
of miwl, erect AN •ACADEMY on such a plan as shall be
capable of a•linitting, under the same roof, ranges of
desks, tables, and thr:ns in small, but open recesses, which,
at a small tinily, or hourly expellee, in the shape of rent,
to which men capable of teaching the various branches of
practical education, m resort, and thither meet, or
bring their respective pupils. To make. myself more
clearly understood ; let us suppose such an academy
—which, by the way, we may call 'ma ATitcwar.ust--I
now ready for the reception of teachers and puoils.—ln
one or m na: of ihese recesses we find every thing requi-
aite for teaching geography and the use of the globes, as
hook., maps, globes, &c. In another an apparatus for
drawing, painting, &c. In a third, suitable move-
niencies fur teaching the classics. In a fourth for the
mathematics, navigation; Sot. &e. Thus going through
the various departments of learning usually acquired at
our public schools.
To these recesses, or tables, with every thing requi-
site
to the objects for which they are appropriated, men '
of sound learning and correct ru3rals,—for no other
should be admitted,—might resort f;:r one, two, or three
hours in each day,- there to meet their respective
pu-
pils give them their lessons, and retire, A pupil in
ME ATHENAEUM, who had received his accustomed •
lesson in wriling,, for instance, might immediately apply •
to sonic teacher to learn drawing, to a th;sa for the ma-
Mematies, &c.
As in this Letter, I profess only to give a feint hint.
of such an -Institution as thiS, which I am well con-
vinced, might be carried into effect, and prove of real
advaatag3 b ith to teachers and papils, without the
dangers and inconvenietves of what are called public
schools on the present plots, I shall not enter into any
farther details ; nor attempt at present to answer such
objelions to which I am aware the ATIIENLEX is ob-
noxious. I shall conclude, therefore by aterely stating,
that it is my opinion this Institution should in fact be
the property of one man ; or at least should be under
Cat entire government if a single individual whose will
as to its general regulations, discipline, qualifications of
admissions, &as should govern the whole, while the most
rigid discipline should preserve its respectability and
ensure its success. J. N.