The National Register.
London, England, 1820-01-16 00:00:00

SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 1820.

power when once made and confirmed, are seldom
driven heel: without a series of resisiance and
troubles which no good man would wish to see
occurring. Let its not be imagined, however, that as
professors of Whig principles we are disposed 'to
enjoy our triumph; no, the same ardent zeal which
ba prompted our uniform oppoadtiou to evil councils,
prompts us likewise to mourn with ihosethet mourn,
and to sympathise in our national nrisfortunee—
We have, however, now an unquestioned right to
point to the fulfilment of prophecies which were so
long disregarded, we have the tight to call -upon
the authors of our calamities both teener their own
errors and to iltnist from the paths of our ruin.—
We have a right to call upon the people of England
to do justice to our cause, to listen no more to the
'calumnies which would repreetft us ASI enemies to
the crown, and as friends to anarelif mid confusion.
We have also a right to be rescued from that foul
stigma of being an interwed and place hunting
party. God -knows the whole current of court
favour has run in a very opposite direction for many
years. The County Party, which we think is a
more appropriate term than Whig, have not been
insensible'to this; they have Melt too 'severely in
the exclusive patronage of their enemies, 'but yet
they have honestly persevered, unawed by frowns
and tmallured by bribes. Titlcs-have been showered
down like manna upon the chosen tribes, power
and influence have been placed entirely in their
hands, and if taxation and public burthens have
been multiplied upon courtiere Of well es the lovers
of peace aad their country, still means have been
supplied to the former of mere: than bearing up
against them. Places. and posts; and pensions have
multiplied also, and a 4hell of harvest leas been
opened, in which they were the only reapers.—
War was to thole a season of prosperity and joy,
and Patients/ poverty the very source of private
wealth— and national degradation the -road to
private honour. Shall principles like-these still find
altettors's Shull Suchu cause still be blindly fidlowed":
shell such wen still find supporter: ? If they do
such seep ertere have no tight to complain, lie not
even if a tremendous revolution should at last arise,
and themselves be numbered with its victims.
The remedy, however, fur our misfortunes, is
still Within our reach. Let the people of England
mark well the authors of their present distressed
state. Let them rally round those who have Leen
their constant and disinterested friend,. Let pri-
vate ends be for once abandoned fur publicgood
Let them tali- no more of expecting something festal
this man, and not liking' to oppose that, but lei
truth and come:let:cc be their guide, and the love of
Old England -their counsellor. They see and fi el
that their present rulers have tidied 'in .procuring
tier them either prosperity or content. They see
that dissatisfaction and misery prevail—that com-
plaint is only met by .frafra abridgement of that
freedom which they should -remember their fore-
fatherathught tier, end which they should bequeath
unsullied to their children. They fisel that the
armor, the .manufacturer, time mechanic, are all
involved in one common let. Let them then make
one common causes—Let them meet, let them pe-
titicin, let them remonstrate, let them demand what
the,constitntiln has given them ; and alxlve all, let
them &mend an immediate relief from taxation, a
reform in that representation which finis to fella
its object, tted a dismissal of those advisers whose
continuance in power promises nothing but a conti-
nuance of terrors, and an increase of dissetlection.
'The peculiar topic of our Agriettletral Distress
shall endeavour to discuae next week.

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The illiolifettr of Friday contains an article of consi-
derable length relative to the law of succession, as it
affects the property of foreigners. It commences with
quoting an expression of the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer upon 116st:object, in th !louse of ('onon:tits, and
stating she expediency of rectif)ing the error •whiels
appear. tit have arisen ; it then proeeedsin Tette a now-
her of laws; also the •Ifult
.artle!e of the Treaty of
Utrecht, and to show t!leir appLeation in tarions eases
with retard to the luoperty of facianers dee-eased, as
affecting real and personal property, ;:ipl as Ar,rting
foreigners domiciled in France, or -who have ettitdreit
111 JJJJ iciled io Franca. This explawition
minute dicta of French law, is for tip, gre-tter part of
little interest. The main point rer.rrditig the. Freticli
law, is fur tile great part of little interest. The wain
foods, whietr was expressly allinicil try •lw the
Chatiee'dor of the Exchequer, is clearly ;
it appearing heyond all doubt tha, /Vides, or French
stock, in the nossestt,itt of foreigners-, may ha
disposed of by them, or devolve its case of intestacy,
according to the laws of their own COIIN!rV ; and that
the Ett.ligh possessera of /it'd's, in parz:ritlai; ifiay dis-
pose of thent.with perfect facility : or the Remits are
dispo.e4ll 01, lit case of intestacy, accurdinz to their
own laws.

APPRIERIFNSIoN otr Ttie NOTORIOUS Jollit
WILLIAMS.—Some time back we stated the parti-
culars of this man's escape, both from Guy's Hose
pita! and Borough Compter (in which latter place
he had been confined on a charge of rubbing the
Venus sloop, Capt. Macon, in the mouth of July
last). • At the last Southwark Sessions, Mr. Alley
moved the Court on behalf of the prosecutor and
witnesses, praying that the recognizances might
not be estreated ; which the Recorder granted,
and since dint 'wild, nothing farther transpirod
to throw the least light on the delinquent's retreat,
till Wednesday night, when the keeper of the Drison
received information that he was at a house in
Shadwell, whither two trusty officers proceeded,.
and succeeded in apprehending and safely lodgings
him in gaol. A true bill has been fourid against lit
him, and he will be tried at the next Sessions.
Thursday evening, about dusk, a gentleman wan
knocked down neat the Mint, in Union Street,
Southwark, by three ruffians, who robbed hint of a
pocket book ccn►tainiug two •1.1. notes, a silver watch,
&c. lUs cries attracted the atteneiim of it constable
named livarus, who happened to be passing, and
he pursued the thieves very promptly, but they
all escaped. The watch was afterwards found
near the spot.
In our raper to-day we give tl►e trial of a man
named Wells, who was triad. nut! eorw'ictcd at the
Warwick Sessions for uttering seditious depressions.
No new law was wanted for that• purpose: he was
tried upon a very old statute, and we merely notice
the fret as a confirmation of the assertion made by
the Opposition Members in both Houses, that tbo
laws, us 01;7 were, were quite equal to every eons.
stitetionnl and honest purpose.
Thursday a numerous meeting-of the inhabitants
of Canterbury was held' at the Guildhall, to take
into considerarlon the propriety of commencing a
subscript ion'to relieve the wants of the nemssitotts
pour, during the press-nt inclement season. Among
the•contpauv who obeyed this call of benevolence
were Earl Nelson, the Rev. Dr. Wollit, the Rev.
Robot Mot►re, with most of the resident clergy and
principal gentry. A subscription was entered into,
and a rommittee appointed to carry the °Wets of
the moctitig into elli.tet. Upwards of were
immediately sidiscribcd in the morn.
Ilsu KT emesurriser.—A cot ttttt unication has lag
been made to Mrs. Coons thit the children of Mr.
Irish Charil School, in St. Wail, were
many of them in a st deplorable state, in conseuuence
of the Inability of their parents to styply them will) sub.
ticient loud, MAL_ Lady, 03 Thursday, employed seveisti
per: mss to purchase all the bread that could be got in
the neighbouring lmps, mt. 4 to convey it to the whoa.
house, ►here to be distributed by the master. The quan-
tity of bread purchased was nuntease, and this dons-
',ion, it was intimated, would he speedily followed by
one equally liberal. it is an absolute fact, that in the
utilise of this minter several of the children at this
school have dropped down front them exhaustion while
saying their lessons.
Itt consequence of the very depressed state of the
t' rsculnual interest,Sir.losenh hunks has recently given
directions to his Luleol:tst►tre Ai.telot to make such re•
auctions of rent as way enable Isis nanteroc• tenantry to
met•t the. emergencies of tfic tints,; generously remark-
tug, that opulence would afford hint no enjoyments,
could he believe that the comforts of ilia lA:mauls oRd
AtTendtmlb ontiorwout any

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The aocient flrltans .40.1 itte§„lxone, as well as the
* ""-e ,Irrtte;' letesN.rene to a tid Ite-PtilkstaseteNAtt, ae e tot
u 1e:10c.41.,1 people. 'rite ;tit of Imentid
VI Lie retell of !Lary the sell, by servile:. to iiteaeme
t ntimeer, and diminish the value of bottle-, conli
a new character on the sit'ijects.of the Tielors and
Slit rots; fuel fuunthitions of lemming were then Vitt,
which ha, e mature:l tinder the ea eel phi.. ate Line
atianied ultimate pi rfectino in the age tat Georee 111.
who•e aitibinen it is s oil have been, IMO every 111111 111
10.4 L1.01101.011* Sa10111(1 be able to read tits Liit ie, and tile
Inshore or lit U" it tottittry.
Tne art of comettinicating intowledge, or training
the yuting mind, like all other art-, hail bad its flee ofn
ittfancy,ofgrowtheutel maturity ;am! next in iniporialiee
to rite admission of the principle that etliteatieu is uselnl
is the deterininaffini of the most efficacious de by
AlllllOl it may be practised. This is a 1111:S1100
trot merely all preceetins of youtit, wit every.
parent Who is anxione to conthitte the improternent of
lies citildren with their ita ppm, ss. paths of learnitig
tad it,t, nut Merely to contloct its votaws to th • temple
tt:.tytallom, but they ought to cooshtttie shortest
r.eatl, and to beyleasain as well as certain.
It is °My wallet the present eeneration, that the
practice of education has been :ma seed and redeteel
to
a IiVSiCII). It may nut have otatained us 101 l pyre:own ;
vet enough Ii s been done to command serious coosi-
itumun„ and lead to relorins in the practice of es•a-
lensliee seminaries. \Ve ntsy piss many ifiemisis and
sitectil .fors, and proceed at mice to rime:: those t,ySt.eiltS
%%Melt h.nc aitented a stateling, and d I I weiee more or less.
prevail.. Among the theorists, we class\Lltou Locke,
BetusSeau, Sherolao, and Some otters ; soil among
practical improvers, we class Aschaui, %Visits. Niertiii,
Lancaster, Belt, and Pestalozzi. Tile latter
it'otte Mann the attentwit of practical philosopners and
political economists.
It was Ascitani, ‘Volsee, Cranmer and their gontem.
poraries, who attaneed the plan of those endowed
schools which are stilt to be found in every part of the
leutedoin. Unhappily, the statute., of these establish-
ments aseinted the knowledge Mute d iv as the 111011 of
Iniman attainments, and they enjoined, as rite see tie of
wisdom, tne seehs; of those languages tit which tile rites
of religito wife, or had recently been, performed,
which' in:eriningled themselves with the practice of the
laws, and were rendered tiecessery by the scantiness of
Looks in the pursuit of what then were called toe liberal
sciences. The difficulty of enlarging the sphere of
stedy w toese seminaries, basted to their iteeleet ; and,
in many places, the builditiee are dilapidated, and the
masters have become sineettrists.
As the English languaele, however, under Addison,
began to advance towards perfection, :ma phoo,,o,:by
Mader New•on and Locke, the taste of the people he•
eetnie national and itidepeteleut. The amiable. Dr.
\Vette erne neteated learning from the trammels of the
schools, by puteishing English work on the iiittelleet ual
sciences. Ile was fee/owed by a popular car:tinier of
toe name of 1)11worth, whose tastelessevorks are net
eel entirely excluded from our seminaries, and by a
more able. writer, Mr. Benjamin Nlartin, who excited
a p vision for mathematical anti piolosoMocrl lest thug,
which gave rise 17 nutherotts estiL•loritmeo•A.
In Out owl' days, we have seett itemize eeact cliaracter
conferred on the idacks of %Valls, I).l%vort and Martin,
gy the IluMerOuS piablieseions thieved or super% ised by
eer Richard Polities, who has sueereddea to ritri(lll4
elementary works a system of tXereire by intorrogaio-
Tres without enswers,
_whereby the bit:tient is compelled
to think for himself-, alid acquire knowledge, hi spite
tat itdolence, and ofieo of incapacity. This system,
NVlticb has been denominared. tie Intertogetier or Intel-
lectual, 11.1 b been renueted pplkeable to all rue liberal
ecieoces, and lies protlificed a .greater eltasige in the
actual routine or school bitsitue..e, than is arisen fawn
anyother Cathie. J. dues we efiesiA of question:: to
winch 31155% era are a ppentlea, tint of questions ailanged
its the feeler of the text, neither of %%meth plaits involve
the sl elties.. mulls:cowl exertion, or in ally degree ap-
proximate ibis system ; lon the title eimts retate ie. tile
tire. t:.,tunce to Mae chapters, grid af-,eir.vart eintli ace
tOCetilted scneoce; tai li...it the siteleitt, in bearing nit
reieie, i= tAkgett to study one so',:leet. Thus system
has beet iittrouticetl two most s •111111.0iet of education,
where the statutes tee not restrict the course of ritedy,
tied is, perhaps, uultell,Ally alupted Its private and
tr.t.ily tumult.
'lce beet „rest improvement has been the system of
1)c. L 3. If add Mr. Lancaster, Jed consists of an arrattee.
mem ut sciiiiel 003:11c>•. by which the reels teach ci..e
r.,th...t, 4:0 perfeetiod by Slllloll.llltriils puoliC
exCleii.l. Toe bent-Ms of tbe,e Lite been hap.
p.iy eAtelltiCA 05er the 13:Vbh empire, care have been
the means of co .frti ii tht fist eieineots of teeica;wit
nn hundreds of thousatei, of Teter children, wide at the
Same time, hate 1,:eo tr.imort to r,i.culat h tbtis of %tittte.
l'ay awaits of the and Foreign Sciitiol St IC Ill\,
4.1 d the apostol.e lauuters of Itlr. Alien, the
•Ittle sy•tein is now bt etiorse of iatrieluctian through
every p. rt a lite eivilieed aorltl.
Toe last sys:1:111 which has claimed peiffic attention,
is at 'fresco cetsfilied to Switeerlaiel. Sill to it sidle
5-.111111.0y. It it I.llJt Fes:aim:et, a seneralile
pht-
lautorietist, who, instead of tee ekiite his pools
bt
printed tuterrogatories, acecrding to the modern Ltighsti
spode, puts his y:slams to the several dasses oreey,
and, iiiste.ol (it receu% es vf.11.,,t1 ao•wtri.
In
certain puMrs of acct, tilt ; 11.11.
1.1 01.0e1 respects. It Is evi Icnt Mil it t a.l 0114 t.e.uh:pted
by tutors actuated icily by the zied of a Pc•tah./7,i, wlll,
aid imbued wall his accurate and is 110 rail
obtain re% aflis from tiv.rt patrons Commetisurate with
such i _net:SS/DI labour. In truth, the systems (.1 Pests-
Icazi and tidier only in their 1110. k. 01;4410;
lhesauie uupurtaut princ.ple; one suits the eata•
lalisbnient ill its ,uventor, but the other adapts Stscli in
es. ry seuffitary, and to every obj!et of. study..