The Sun.
London, England, 1817-01-15 00:00:00

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Lettris writtitithte the celi.hra.ed i.4rl of
:esti. relative
to the.etiaca' clot') Lordshij)!'s :Godson ond
(mei s4')l. itt .11:e

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Tltt4e Letters form a modernte-sized duodecimo.

volOoir, iire ut once cidqulatea to cootirm the

tii,frtiott gehei4ll'y held' sas to the moral sytteot
,; • , I •
.ii11.401(1 UtIESTYPPIELDi anti. 'to 'SlietV the Orect

that spitem in.o;:itecd on a yotok educated, if mot
tinder it', at least not pure from its ennui-
giutn. little volume is 101 l of yrreefit,
and exatiipli; It 11 fret-14,10y unitising anti
itioOgliont instructive to those who will be at
e trouble to extract the important leison it
Train. op a- Child in the way lin
shOidd go, and when he is old lie Will 'not depart
outs it," says tltegreatest of all teachers. Allow

ColdAte's.

little devlationi iOnVenient slips, says...
Lord CHESTERFIgitij in the fate of 'his tle.
, ,•
iceridants we. ra•d .conitglienee. Bo we do
not bleats to. stile •thst in these letters vice is
counteninceil'ititt ,irate discouraged. On the
contrary, they 'contain a multitude of atlmitable'
maxims And 'pieces- of advice which every paietn
might with advantage. But there is ever and.
AllOll a glimpie atrottled of that'Worldly laxity which.
„winks at trivid errors, instead of destroying its
them the seeds" of Wore criminality. A doting'
atlection.appears to have given even irregularities
'the hoc of .met itK, and the nolorrunate' choice of
instructors; to have accomplished the work of
sapping the youthful mind of the pupil.

To these introductory remarks we beg to sub'
loin two of the Idettet.s, ss a fair specituch of the
nature of this work, of which COLBURN, of
Cinoluit-strect, is the publisher

I.ET'I'ER

LORD CHIRTRIMELD To MR. STANHOPK.

" Dec. 4, 1784.

" Two days ago T received the favour of your letter frout
Mansfield, by which I fhttl that ,titt stayed no longer at Yosk •
than was itecessary to settle your daughter with her grand- .
mother ; thtvbest place she can be at. tier dancing is not
matertal ; for nonott in his senses desires a 'hinting wiles-.
lint to read and nod, rs,tand useful imoks, anti to draw-well,
are .permatteut mot within-door yes ovations, and such as
every man Would desire domi i employ his wife; at least, as
they keep her wit of harm's way. flat to my boy; '$Pll4l
you the inclosed letters.. which "received from him yesterday,"
in answer to one I had wrote him. It k all his
own inditing, as 70'11. 'All find by the. coot eots : but ',,,0
And too that ithilonia f's'improved. I had posit, rely
lines, which are an infallihty receipt fur writing awry,. when.
ever One *rites without theta. - lle must not fioish the nest
year at Itohetes, where there are none- hut boys less
himself, who, conseilttel,tly,- keep hive childish •helow his
age. fiat where to placrhim next, liqropur, Aic War tat.
My view would be to give him morals and manners, whittle
• are not to be found at a great' school, together with anoint
classical learning, which is not to be had at Hittite one. I
am upon a scent,'whieh l Ingle may answer hoth purposes ;•
hut whether I shaft Lueeerd or not, is yet donhtful. Pray tin
not. mention a word ot this design to any mortal living : we
will talk it over funk' wheit we meet, 1 suppose will
be at flattest some time before Michachnss next. l havi,
got the halt-repairs, which were nil that I expected fronS
drinking these waters anti bathing. A house once, propped
intimates approaching ruin: it may be rubbed and whtti.-
washed, lints will nsver stand long; any more .than your
faithful, &v." .

I,ixrElt

THS SAMS. TO Vila EOM

14 June 15, 174t1.

'mit is vei true that ray ha! is Innotleinos and loves talk
exceedingly. Ilut it is its true too. that every body hives to
hear hlrn talk-, Ile never says n child;sh nor a silly thing, and
his nartations Oroelear, soul his style good. I will confess
too, that in the rapitny of his conversation there are some.,
times little trifling falsifications, but netvr of tt tualisimpt,
nor iotcruq'td riatiire. I will giro you one instance, by 4'o
you Juattra of the rest; 'Mont a fortnight ago, in one of
our ttte-a.tetes, he' told me that lie Was apt to walk 'in his
sle p; ,'l'bis alarmcd' me, as it is A very dangeroos trick. I
%Wirt to•Dri Dodd to intinire farther, who assured
ate that lie 4titf hot! a word of 'it r for that there was so
'NU a deal:boa4) 1011144 M tOttAoeo the Voila where the
boy lay and thatvhere IteMitt his wife Jay,. that if ke walked
in his ileep, they must necessarily hare heard him; which
they never had. Now, in my mind there is a very innocent
solution of this AlTair,,ethich Is, that the boy dreamed that
lie walked In leis sleep, as 1i here done ip yielf a thousand
times. All these little deviations from troth thitt I litive oh.
served have been of this inoffensive nature. Upon this omit.
sion; I will noble thing that he said a year ago to
I,,ihought that I had detected 111 M its a
direStt, ra; I I theitlfOl:6 Was'ObligeA to Setal at least very angry
and io retinue huts severely: 1 did so, and ruld him that be
shonld come to me,nornorn. Ile cried bitterly, and 1 re-
mained seemingly Intlexable;; upon which, Lady Chesterfield
Iliad, that she wOold answer for hint that lie would norer do
so any mere. To svhicl, he replied, that he would not ha
answered for by uny hotly, but would-answer far himself...,
'this, in my opininn,•was the spirited reply of a ipartan.—
Uputivforther oxstnination I-discovered, that my buy was
the tight, itni 1 was in the wrong.-.]lira esay, au4 depend
upon it that he 41 turn out Jost as ynn and I timid %Ash, 41
loshoold tint, it most be my fault ; for there Is DO one
in the world that Ito would not IN to please'rne."

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