The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-11-14 00:00:00

n respectable English sehool.mester establishing
himself here. Two English Indies have recently
centimetred a boerdiorschool for females only;
they hate been moderately successful. A capital of
from one to Ave hundred paends-is essential—.for a
dey.echool noise is required. The dead languages,
movie, surveying, drawing, dancing, and French,
■re taught at the ssperrot mitosis; the latter is
elther generally ttudentoad, and in same measure
necemaryl French families being more frequently
met with here than in England. At some of the
neademses plays ere occasionally acted. The
charges at several semioaries are, for arithmetic,
reacting and writing, per runent. 40 dollars; for
geography. philosophy, and the French language.
60; for Greek. Latin, end the Mathematics, 00
dollars; these amounts are exclusive of beard."

4 CORE FOR COUNTERFEITING.

Let six of the best engravers in the United States
lte employed—•let them work separately ; offer a
'premium of five thousand dollars to that one who
shall produce, in six months, the best case-harden-
ed die, in an oval shape, two inches and a half
Iring and two inches broad, so engraved, that when
said die shall he impressed in a copperplate. it
shall perfectly exhibit ■ fine miniature picture of a
good, peculiar, and very expressive Mums face,
►eerningly of abut 95 or 40 years of age. Keep
this die in the Mint of the United States, or in the
Bank of the United States at Philadelphia.
Let every copperplate be impressed with it that
may hereafter be made for any Batik in the Union.
Let every bill, of every denomination, from one
dollar to a thousand, issued from any Bank what-
ever. exhibit in the middle of it thisconntenatice.

When this die shall be made, exhibiting* front
view of a very intelligent, peculiar fame, in which
both eyes shall be delineated as pettedly as in the
best miniature picture; and when the Banks shall
universally it dips this plan, then we may look in
vain for comiterftiters, or passers or counterfeit
Bank notes, lint not before. Because, while the
%mks are contriving bills, so as they themselves
'may not be imposed upon ; and white engravers a►e
• ,constantly striving ta see who shall produce the
greatest Timidity of microscopic dot liner mid
figures on a Bank bill—so lung none hot *castlftrs
and others daily handling money, will be compe-
tent judges of tine money. On the contrary, sup.
posing this test should be universally adopted, the
common people in all parts of the country would
soon become as perfect judges of Bank bills as those
b tailors, required the daily sseuf them: be-
cause e.ty—
ist The burrito entottesissee is the onty object in nature
which we are üblimd from oar infascy to notice and reMem-
her, in order to take the fall besellit of the society in which
ri if her.
ill. Seesaw, in this particular, all mew are nearly upon a
level: each one supposed capable of noticing, feta' ein
memory, slid of swearing to the identity of every Ober whom
be his seen.
3d. Beean•e, when every bill in circulation has the seine
face stamped upon it, it is easy to peucure a true bill to
compare w ith those which may be supposed false.
%Audi hotyDresuse the successful ',graver, whoever be
nisi he, ll► ay other our, can never so exactly imitate the
erne countenance, as to deceive the Mine cursory observer.—
; Clarkston City Gault.)

FOREIGN IN% ELLIGENCE.