The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-18 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

- Sr—Next to a zealous and enlightened friend, the author
of any useful art can desire nothing room likely to promote his
views than an honourable and well-informed adversary. There
is nothing in your critique of my mode of teaching which ought
to deprive you of this character. Your opinion,: are those of
men of education generally, %rho have,nOt had an opportunity
'of witnessing the effects of my system. • Of this I cannot justly
:complain ; and if you will only continhe to use the arms of
truth'and candour; and allows:lie to defend myself with the Like
weapons, I do not hesitite to declare my willingness to make
even-you, Sir,'the judge 'and umpire of my pretensions as a
teitaher, and consent that my system be adopted or rejected by
.your single suffrage.

After mentioning that I engage to teach &person wholly un-
acquainted with the French language to write and speak it in
48 lessons, you acknowledge that " it is a very short cut to the
attainment of linguistical excellence; and should it prove a safe
one, Mr. Hamilton's discovery must certainly supersede every
other mode of instruction in this branch of education." Let me
entreat you, Sir, to mention what species of evidence you will
receive, to prove the safety of this " short cut." I have taught
only in America ; I offer the most respectable evidence it could
prestace; and I addressed on my arrival here several of these
testimonies to the Editors of the dtfferent Papers; they were
returned me, I have reason to believe, without being read ; they
are yet at your disposition, nor can you confer on me a grentei:
favour than to examine them with attention.

After giving the detail of the lesson on French and German,
von say, " It 'strikes us. That after 40 lessons of. this nature, the
knowledge of any language will be. very imperfect indeed."
I grant tr, but I have nu where said the 48 lessons all re-
semble this.one.. Every lesson .has for its basis the precee
ding one, but no4WO are alike: It is ,necessary that all the
parts of a system should conduce to the end proposed, but all
surely need not resemble each other. The first lesson only
e
was given. I might indeed have thrown more light on the
remainder of die course than I did, and regret that I did not
know that any person desired it ; still it would have been utterl
impossible to give in one sheet 'Lecture a perfect idea of thY'
whole system. All .I had promised for the everting, and many
thought I had promised more than I could perform, was / be_
lieve-accoMplisbed to the satisfaction of the audience, nor would
it.: be jest to,condetnn an entire systembecause a single lecture
did not contain the whole of. it. The testimony of the only
nation in which- I. have taught being rejected, or voluntarily re-
linqUished, I have, Sir, but one resource left ; it is an ai, cal
to the progress of my pupils here. 'rhis evening (Tuesday,
the 16th dayy of September,) seyerul gentlemen
'wholly.
with a degree of accuracy
unac-
quainted with the French language are
i to receive their ffrst les.
son, at my apartments in'the,Atielph`. I have ...t.:..1 thatpro....... at
the end of ten lessons they Shell be ableuread.and translate the
Gospel Of St. John, cemprelleedini with the inflexions of the
verbs, at least 10,000 ditierent words,
and.grammatical precision awhiehmo person* who hasinot had"
other
well stop the
advantages than can be derived, from it school education . is
capable; andthat they shall know all the words contained; in that
Gospel Wherever they may Meet then, and however critnhined.
The lesisoria will be given three times a Week, and will cense-
querttly end on Tuesday, the 7th day of October. On that
evening I invite you, Sir, nay, entreat stir, to attend' ; and if
the class do not verify the vretlictiori, the positive engagement
which I here make, your testimonywi Progress of a
mischievous delusion ; but it, contrary to what you may now
think possible, or at least probable; the reality of this system
be demonstrated by the performance a evens member of the
classonuy I not hope that you will do Justice to the aystem
which I advocate, and thus remetlY the Iniery.which the ex-
pression of your opinion must necessarily have done me I!
I am, Sir, yours, hic.
J. HAMILTON.

The'closenemi.of the itnitatitii, in many places, approaches
to translation. Wharton has cited part of 'the original Of the
celebrated passage alluded to in the text—,but he has stopt short
where the resemblance becomes
_strongest—" End uXorts no.
men sanctius et validius videtur, diticuis mini vetiver extitit
*Mew vocabulutn, aqt .si non intligneris, Concubine, vol
Scums. Deum testern invoco, si me Augustus, univento
d . ens mundo matrimonii honore dignaietur, totunique in-
born contirinaret, in penietuo prasidenduin, charius utihi et,
iii taus mihi videtur tun dici-,lllfretrix Imam Whitt impel-atria.'
-= any of thelimplitc4ians of POpe upon the venous parts
of 'the original are thd'Count Buss.
`Publication :of the Letters7,—andin the, iligtaire 41' &hist •at
cr ilbella'n ',Hague 1693; if we mariudge from the citations in
I3ayle.

a notion it -Lay eve of the' chsrins her con-
versation—charms, to which all her accounts
bear witness ; and, indeed, tie remains of her
correspondence themselves impress 'us, with' a
extraordinary, ip 11 S of her merits. the best
judges have given to her style the 'Preference over
that of her !Wend and master, for pusity and iii-
tural grace,
~Her temper, like his, vatic in all
likelihood affected by their calamities.

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DISCO VIRY of a" CAVE in DIOIVidftV:"

•
( From the I.lell'ast Aretih.-Lettre'r4
A. very curious excavation in a Soll&its4.l4l'
been lately 'illsOvereti ni Dromore.. 'VT
that scene -liboUreri who A eeee emptcyett-te
quarrying ttear the Old Castle,: fourtir*ittiliS it
yards of that ancient building, and on die veil*
top of the rock, a circular aPerture'of threefeet-
in diameter, into which large .stones had been
closely wedged, almost on a level With the Sur.:
face. These impediments having bertt reinored,
several persons descended into the cavity, the
dimensions of which Were accurately talten by
Mr. Welsh, of Droniore, and are as foltows
From the -top of the 'aperture td,-the floor, four
feet 6 inches. The floor is a rectangle of 2,4 itt
length, by 2 feet 6 inches in width. The -sides
are perpendicular to thelloor,-and 'are three
feet,. eight, inchea.high.
.-effset at
the top-of the wall of four- inchesi: from which
the roof springs in a segment of e large circle
about three feet beloW the rock's surface. •
,On
the floor were found several brokeu urns formed
of coarse clay, and of different dimensions and
formi, together with pieces of rotten wood, char.;.
coal, humanhones, and Those of ether aninals-74
part of each of which, is pow in Mr. Welsh's
.pos-
session. ft is OtiVießs- that this 'ekeavation in a
solid rock had bee formed with infine labour to
serve asa cemetery for the,tlead, ft belongs to
that species of Leachtor Tamleachta, now called
Kisde vans, or as the Irish literati write the
word's, K isde bitana *, which may be translated.
Death's cOl&r, slid justly classed (nOi in magni:
tude but in-duration) with the enormous stone
sepulchres or 64 eternal houses!' of the 'Egyp-
tians. These Kisde bhanarare commonly found
to contain bhkeil clay, buint bones, Charred
wood,. end adepous or fatty matter. The other
specious of Leacht (or stony sepulchre) may be
found-enclosed in any of our large cairns. Many
of those :cairns have been opened from time
to time,-and in each of them was discovered
that curious combination of ponderous stones
called Druid's Altars, so• perfectly encircled by-
smaller stones, thas no priest could 'tale ap-
proached them' to use them as Altaic. tinder these,
were found hones, urns, charred wool!,
Eochaid, who was King of Ireland. about 14
years before the birth of Christ, -charstged' the cus...
tom of burning- into that of burying the dead,
and thence obtained the' name of Arvarnh,
the Grave. Dromore, in which this -ancient Cave
and the old castle-alluded to above-are situated,
lies in the barony of Lower' I veaelt. Its-original
name was Baileitagalla, and under-this denotni_
nation it was-erected (by letters patent of'Jernes
the First, in the eighth year of his reign) into
a manor,- called the manor of Dromore, with
a court leet, Court baron free market on Se-,
turday, and two annual fairs, to be held near;
the Church, where a great stone cross stood,-&e.
Dromore (or rather Druhnore) signifieslhe-great,
ridge of..a hill. Here St. Colman,- an Irishman,.
of the Sept of the Arads, erected bishopricic.
in -the 6th century. Usher states, that -he was
born in the year, 516, anti- died in 610. He is,
mentioned byCeignu. in his- TriuditThiumu.,
tu- rgcr, page 113, 16§, as the founder of Dro-.
more, and by Ware, page. 267, An Episcopal,
houie was built here by Bishop BuCkworth,A.D.,.
16.4f,' whiCh was burned in .the rebellion. The"
Right Rev, Dr. John gterne; Bishop of this See,
expended 3,0001., ittimproveMents' itt Dromore,,
But Dromore has been rendered ri nac 1,. ble
for' having' been under Ole adtnioistration of those.
eloquent and pious prelates,•Dr.leremy Taylor-
and the late learned, revered,amtadmira b les elio7
ler, Dr. Perct. tr he 'Mortal renutits.of',Teremy
Taylor,' and of his friend,- Dr. George Rust, are'
deposited in the same vault-itt Drodiore Cathedral'
It is' not improbable that the rave ilescribki
above was the burying-Wake of St: Colman, w
is sometimes called Colmanuitli 'end' sometimes
Mocholmoc, by Irish biographers, but we have.:
not leisure to ascertain this point. Itv the siith
.•
century, the Irish had not altogether ceased from'.
burning the remains or their dead, notwitluttant
ing the edict of .their farmer King.
* Pronounced Kiade vana—bh being tantamount to Y.

RIOIOUSsCONDUCT 1N TUE FIa:ET PailloNc4.-.1.
Yesterday evening Robert Selby Hele, Chartem
linatchballoind John Watson, wire brought-np
by virtue of a , writ of lictbeas Corpus, from awl
Fleet.prison, wherein they had been long coo.,
fined on mane process, to plead at, Justice-1147
Old Bailey, to an indictment preferred against
them by the Warden of the said prison) for
riotous and disorderly conduct therein, and for
obstructing the offi.cers thereof in the prompt ex e-
ctition of their dUty. The CoUrt ordered them
all to be committed to Newgate, iii default of
bad, and otdered them to giv.e 24 hours' notice.

,477,?iothvy, who was'
MagiStiUtes'af
We understand thati;tl:ol,o4?o,ole
examined' gin' Thursday
Greenwich, charged as one of,, the rnurdereri.or
Air. %Arm, at k.ewiAharn, and his brOther, hor
Timid who were` the leastgiilty in the tiiiiis-
actfon, have hierfatlrnitiettlin6 evidence, and
have• rutiele rutt difthisuie of,;all. the circutu-
'stances attending this atrocinin* transacticai:—.-
(Kentish Garetk.)