The National Register.
London, England, 1812-07-12 00:00:00

JULY 1%.*

casrnran; SYsepre." Royal it may be, since it cannot be denied
that our excellent Sovereign was inadvertently drawn in to honour Mr.
Lsseasrri.n, with his patronage ; but as to the system itself, it ever
was, still LI, and ever will remain that of its inventor, Dr. nett
howe. er barbarously mutilated by those semi-inquisitorial punishments,
so emphatically described by Mr. Cot.en TOG n in his Lecture on the Ma-
dots Sv-tem, 'delivered at the Royal Institution.—" No boy," adds
the eliareit orator, " win; has been subject to punishineuts like these,
will stand in fee. of Newgate, or fiel any horror at the thought of a
clay-ship."—Rut it is not to such frivolous and disgusting reflections as
these, that 1, at pia sent, wish to call the attention of the reader; but
it is to that ECONOMY to which Mr. La stin, and his adherents,
have been compelled to fly for shelter, being the only corner tat them,
where they can have even a hope to maintain their ground. I here
speak of that boasted economy, which, according to some, " gives the •
Lancastrian schools that tidisputab:e preference, that none but the
iviltully blind must, at th amity first glance of the estimates, discover."
—This is carried so far in late flimsy and fallacious publiciition, enti-
tled, " A Vindication of r. Lancaster's System, by a Member of the
Royal Institution," as to daringly asse,i that the expense of a school
for one thoasand children, according to Dr. 13tt.r.'s plan, amount* to
9421. los.; whereas, accordiiL to the ROY AL LA 'ICA 3THIAN SYSTEM,
it would amount to but 2101. 101. 4d. being a difference in the expense
of the necessary requisites of each school of 7311. 12s. Bd. In this
true and faithful statement, the charge of books to each scholar in the
Madras school, nienunts to five shillings per RIM %%berm, in the
Whitechapcl school, we find the charge to be one shilling :mid two
pence. But what shall we think of the author of the Vistotcartosr,
when we re-a 1 the following words in the Whitecbapel Report, pp. 6
and :—" From the statements of the accounts for the lour last years,
it will be seen that the expense of educating each child is about six
shillings per amain], and that includes a considerable sum fur rewards,
besidas 461..55. sd. fir articles of clothing in 1809."
But let us now come to demonstration, otkrwise the mere assertion
in favour of the Madras System, would have no more weigh: than that
in favour of Mr. LA NCA ST C

The following plain statement is taken from the " Fourth Report of
the Free-School, Gower'g-w ‘Vhitecliapel ; for !mining up Child, en
in the principles of the Ciliation Religion, atol in habits of useful in-
dustry." Conducted tinder the system of the Rev. 1)r. BELL.
" To have the understanding opened, and the mind enlightened by
means of " perfect tearhino" in reading and eve:ln-tic:ll instruction ;
to write a good hand, and to perform the four first mks of arithmetic
in so captivating a manner as this plan cxhibilc, would juvily a con.i-
elerable expense. being incurred : but the loPowing statement of average
annual expenses, taken from the Reports of this Instituti at, for about
110 to 120 boys, and 80 to 90 girls (say '200), wili slicw that such re-
sults are obtained at a very moderate expence.
Estimate of Books and oti.er Sc' Fxpenccs, for one year, for 400
CL. s. d.
Waste of sand in the trays 0 1 0
Six large alphabets. &c. for sand trays
lieveuty-t vet sets of initiatory cards or pages
SO Child's First Book

50 D tto, part IE.
50 Mrs. Trimmer's Charity Schaal Spelling Book, pt. i i 0 1
100 Catechising broken into questims,
50 Life of our Savtoor
50 Parables of our Saviour
59 Miracles of Ditto
5) Discourses of Ditto
100 Chief Truths
50 Psalters
50 Explanation of Scripture words
50 Prayer-books
50 Testaments
39 lii t)1(9

J 7 6 Dort,o of s'ates

0 t5O Ari:lnnetical T4b:es
Pencils, pens am! ink
12 t 14
Dortu of and CIASS 1)401e%

Deduct three•tourths from Bibles, all,w-
ing !Item to lat.t four years • 6 5
Dit;o limo Te.t amews, (i AI J 0 IC
Dian from Prover-books, ditto 1 ;9
I/1t...) from dates, (lilt.,
Ditto Otte-(,alt front Pskilte;s, `2`. years 013

f 2 8
3

12 15

Toni expert:e of book.; 'or one Scar it 13 3
Or each child per nuJuin O' ,Shilling ta:4d 1 wopclize.