The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-29 00:00:00

CHURCII OF IRELAND.

CHARGE OF ms GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF
CASHEL.

On Thursday (21st inst.) his Grace the Loan
A lICIIBISILOP of CASHEL held his Triclinia! Visi-
tation for this diocese at St.. Ailary's Church,
Clonmel ; the Rev. F. Newport-preached on this
occasion ; and on Friday the Bishop of ‘Vater-
ford held his Visitation in the same church, on
which occasion the Rev. R. Carey was the
preacher. The attendance of Clergymen was
very numerous. In addressing the `3ishop rind
Clergy of the Diocese, his Grace the Archbishop,
in the commencement of his Charge, took occa-
sion to pay a high and well-merited, eulogium to
his predecessor, for his activity and zeal in the
discharge of evvry duty imposed on his situation,
and for the other virtues which adorned his
course through life. For himself, he said, that
although, from the course of nature, the recur-
rence of many triennial occasions of having the
pleasure of seeing his Clergy assembled around
him, was not, likely to occur—yet he would feel
it, at all times, one of his most pleasing duties to
attend to the interests and 'communications of his
Clerical ,Brethren. ills Grace next adverted to
the several theoretical„arguments extant for the
suppression or abolition of Tithes and the aliena-
tion of Church Property ; but these he censured
as mere populareXperiments, hich, 'racked upon,
while they would sink the Tithes
_in the pockets
of the Land Proprietor, mostly an absentee,
would not relieve that class uFoit whom they fall
with the heaviest weight, and who should pay a
full couivalent for every thing they received from
the Landlord ; besides, while many of the Lords
of the soil were squandering 0)4 money drawn
from:lreland among other nations" the beneficed
Clergy, residing" with few I.Xceptions, among the
communities- from, whom they derived their sup.
liortoßent there tlfe produce of their Tithes to
the'advantage-, of these communities ; and, by
their example and advice, it was to be hoped,
contributed to am., welfare of the country. Be
considered Church Property a right, as.inalien.
ably inherent in the Clergy for their support as
that of any ether property which could possibly
be possessed by any individual whatever ; it was
not only guarded hy the law, and sanctioned by'
what was termed immemorial usagebut was, a
right which invaded no other right ; for it was
chargeable on the land lwfore either inheritance
or purchase had placed even estates in the hands
of their possessors. He next adverted to the
Bill lately enacted for the Composition of Tithes,
many offthe provisions of %thick lie went through,
and which he 'seemed to approve, as calculated to,
alleviate the burdens of those who complain,
while it equally regarded what. was due to the
interest and support- or the Cleriral profession
and his CI racivrecommendell it: to the adoption of
his Clergy accordingly.—He alluded to the Dis-
senters and Rothan Catholics in terms not only of
kiittltiess and conciliation, but of genuine libe-
Tality—indicating to his Clergy the propriety of,
at all tittles, duly considering and making
allow-
ance for the. circumstances under which they
were placed. He spoke at such considerable
length, that we cannot enter here into any thing
more than a brief and imperfect sketch of the
prominent features of his Grace's charge ; but
tins is of the less consequence, as we understand
it is to be published after his circuit in the Arch-
diocese shalt have been_ completed.—(Clonmet
Advertiser).

The Scringapatam frigate, Capt. S. WARREN,
C.B. which has been employed during the last
month in conveying Dr. TIARK9 from place to
place, along the coast, between the Nore and
Falmouth, for the purpose of ascertaining the
longitude of spots by means of chronometers, has
arrived at Spithead, to enable the Doctor to make
some observations at Portsmouth, after which she
will proceed to Falmouth.

THE HAMILTONIAN SYSTEM ;
OR, THE FRENCII LANGUAGE TAUGHT IN
FORTY-EIGHT LESSONS.

Mr. HAAtturoN offers not to the consideration"
of the most enlightened community upon earth the crude spe.l
cidations of a mind more or less cultiyated, an untried theory
however rational.; nay, he pretends not to theorize, not to be
able to account for the efficiency of his system of teaching the
languages.— He submits with deference the 'follotving acts,
upon the authenticity and correctness of which he is willing to
have his fame as a teacher, and his honour as a man, blasted or
confirmed. • •
Tracing the steps of none of theiritpredeceors Mr. H. and
his family have, during eight years, taught in ;hove 40 cities
and Owns of the United,.States and Canada, the learned and
most of the modem languages, but principally the French,
with a degree of success as to the number and respectability of
their pupils, the facility of forming classes, and the high price
(comparatively with other teachers) paid for their instructions,
which he believes no other teacher in any age or country can

boas.
Amidst the clamors of the most active opposition from inve-
terate prejudice, or interested jealousy, several thousand wit-
nesses were raised, whose personal experience of the efficacy of
the Hamiltonian System rendered their testimony .condusier
with every mind open to conviction, and left the Author without
an avowed, much less a•successful, opposer. The result wee
every where, and always the same ; whether the class was ti
private one of 10 or 12 persons, or a public one of 00 or 100,
as in Union, Yale, Princeton, Vermont and Middlebury U-
versifies twla
ere Mr. Hamilton' counted not only the Studentit
but. he Presidents and Professors of these Institutions among
his pupils,) every member who attended the class and gave it
a moderate share of attention, without regard to previous in-
struction, without regard to age, sex, or intellect, farther than 1
to be possessed of common sense, and to know how to read Eng-
arrived invariably at the same stage of proficiency, in the
same period of time which bad been foretold and promised by
the teacher at the outset, .asehe infallible result, not of Tito
talent nor the genius of the pupil, but of the Plain and simple
mechanism of the system on which he was taught. Ladles end
gentlemen of sixty and upwards and children of eight yea
and even younger, the parent and the child seated in Mr. Ha-
milton's classes on the same bench, found the instruction equal;
ly fitted to the age and capacity of each, and made uniformly
the same progress, at least for a considerable part of the course.
The amount of the proficiency thus attained by all Mr. Ha-
milton's pupils, without disgusting labour or painful applica-
tion, without getting any thing '(y rote, or the previous study
or knowledge of the grammar of their own or of any other lan-
guage, is, to be able to pronounce with propriety, to read and
translate, and to have actually read and translated the whole
of the Gospel of St. John in French, (comprehending, with the
inflexions of the verbs, not less than ten thousand different
words) in ten lessons of one hour each, with a correct-
ness of grammatical analysis and a precision of meaning
and construction wholly unknown, or at least never attempt.
'ed in the Schools; to be able to read, and to have ac-
tually read in the same way; and in he same perfection, the
Fables of Perrin, .100 pages in 10 lessons more, and to he
able to read and understand any book in the French language,
and to have actually read severe/ with the same facility as Eng-
lish ; to have a correct idea of the conjugations of the verbs,
and to designate nominally and instantaneously the mood, tense,
and person of every verb whatever that may occur in the course
of reading, in teddy lessons; in short, to write and speak
the language with grammatical correctness and a just pronun.
ciation, with a fluency and facility proportioned to the dili-
gence which the pupil may have used (in the latter part of the
course eepeciallv), and to the greater or less degree of confidence
or timidity with which he may use this talent in 40 Lessons,
or the whole Course.
Once for all, Mr. Hamilton begs to have it distinctly under-
stood that gramma is taught with the first word of the lan.
page professed to- be taught, and that the pupil is perfected
by Gon rammar ly, as the sole means by which it is possible to
communicate a correct knoselcage of any language; but no
Grammar is put into the harale of the pupil till he ie already a
practical Grammarian ;
gcts not its rules by rote, they are
addressed to his understanding by practical demonstration and
familiar examples only, and are retained with a facility and
certainty, of .which the mode of getting by heart, or studying
written rules, can furnish neither example nor idea.
Mr. Humilton has said that he proposes not to account then,
retieally for the invariable, and apparently necessary effect of
his system ; he exposes the simple facts, leaving the karma
in physics or metaphysics to account for them ; thus much,
however, from long experience, lie will assert, and appeal r„r
its truth. to every man of education :-..-
The present system of tuition in the primary scluxils through-
out the civilized world, is .sir essentially vicious, that whatever
be .the talent and integrity of the teacher (and on profession
can boast a greater mass of either); no instructionla, or can be,
communicated in them.
The primary object of these institutions,' if that object was
to teadr, is entirely lost sight of; the pupil is ordered to learn,
and too frequently flogged without measure or mercy, for not
learnin'Ar, but I repeat it, from the first moment of his enter-
ing school till his education ie. what is called completed, he
is tamed noth;ng. Thus he learns, by his own almost unaided
efforts in eight or ten years, what might have been (=mot-
nicated.te him with delight to pupil and teacher in as many
months, upon the Hamiltonian System ; but the matter corre-
sponds to the manner ; as if it were intended to render in-
struction absolutely impassible, the pupil is obliged for years
to study and get by heart what heteither comprehends, while
at school, nor in one case in a thousand in after life. The
trash which, under the name of grammar, occupies several of
our most precious years, to the utter exclusion of all useful
knowledge, is never known by the pupil, and generally totally
misunderstood by: the master—there are at this moment
500,000 boys and girls from 7 trel3 studying grammar in these
united Vingdome, and not one would be able to parse or analyse
many of the Most simple phrases of their mother tongue, for
example—
" Will you dine with 111 f: to-day "
" John might have gone in, for the door was open, butt he
would not."
"s Have done, Sir."
You may go to bed."
lie asserts, without fear of successful contradiction, that there
isnot one boy or girl in these united kingdoms (unless acquainted
with French or Latin) wile can parse the above phrases, nor
one in a 1,000 of their teachers. °reinitiate (I mean, what is
called by that name in the schools) is good and useful, worth
the labour and experce .of the acquirement, and ought to be
effectually taught, or it is unintelligible nonsense, especially
atehis period of life, and in the manner in which it is applied,
as I verily believe it to be, and ought to give place to some-
thing useful. But while such is coufessedly the state of our
schoels_while facts elan he publicly asserted, and defy suc-
Cessful contradiction, Arhich Would Imply that thousands of the
richest and most enlightened nations upon earth are the subjects
of the grossest and most mischievous delusion, we ought not to
he surprised that A system proposing to he the reverse of all
this, and whose first: principle is, to 'teach, always tai teach,
timid produce, effects which, when compared to the effects of
the vicious systems of the schools, may have the appearance of
miracle.
Such Is the 'effect usually 'produced by the exhibition of the
Ilamiltonitui system after the members have received four or
five lessons. The amount kniswei and the uniformity of this
knowledge to every member of the mhe class niermt incredible to
the pupil himeelt, but whetethiie knowledge is combined with
the previous
prediction of the teacher, the efibet is truly won-
dertul. •A candid public will eaeily conceive that an introduc-
tory lecture cannot prothice this effect, Mr. Hamilton fears
not,, however, to appeal to its evidence as a demonstration of
the reality of his system. Ile will first offer such personal tat,-
timonras he indges may be listened to with Inutience,''bUt
Should this fall tohring conviction,
an experimentill application
of the effects of his system on the whole auditory 'will be at-'
tempted.
The Lecturer trusts that every penon present, Of whatever
a;ern sex, of whatever degree of talent or education shall be
enabled in less than one hour to pronounce with the correctness
of a native of France,.and to translate with the most perfect ac-
curacy of meaning and grammatical construction, several verses
Of the New Testament in French, and to know the words of
Which they consist for ever after, and this, without uttering, or
without taking arty other part in the exercises of the evening
than that of an attentive auditor; every person. present will,
however, not only be permitted, but invited, to verify by per-
sonal experiment the reality of the talent thus instantaneously
acnuired.
Notice of Mr. Hamilton's introductory Lecture, and the
opening
of a public Class, will be given in a few days.

A singular circumstance took place yesterday,
morning, soon after two, in Vauxhall Gardens.
A Gentleman accused a man of robbing him of a
201. note upon his being accused, he was seen
to put it in his mouth, chew,and swallow it. The
to Mr. HALL, of Union
fact being mentioned
Hall, he was in the act of taking him into cus-
tody, when he received a violent blow in the face,
which caused bitn to bleed profusely. The fel-
low was secured and lodged in Vauxhall watch-
house for examination.