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THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1820.

GENERAL ELECTION.

To the GENTLEMEN, CLERGY, and FREEHOLDERS o

the COUNTY of ESSEX.

GENTLE;IEN,
THE uncommon success of my Canvass in
every quarter of the County has convinced me at once
of your zeal to protect the Laws of the Land, and support
the Constitution in Church and-State.

The readiness with which you have come forward, is the
most flattering testimony that you may with safety again re-
pose such important trusts in my hands; for which, Gentle-
men, I beg you will accept my most grateful thauhs.

I remain,

Your faithful and devoted humble Servant,
ELIAB HARITY.

Rolls, Chigwell, March 13, 1820.

co the GENTLEMEN, CLERGY, and FREEHOLDERS of
the COUNTY of MWDLESEX.
ON my
ro tiro from my, Canvass I observe Mr.
Samuel Charles Whitbread's Address as a Candidate to
represent you in Parliament.

From what passed yesterday at the Meeting of Mr. Whit-
bread's Friends, Sir Francis Burdett appears to be the most
powerful one among them all ; but reflecting on what passed
in the years 1802, 1804, and 1806, when the Hon. Baronet
himself was a Candidate for the same situation, and the ar-
duous and unprecedented exertions by which you regained
your liberties, I cannot for a moment doubt that the same
energy which gained the victory will retain the conquest.
Together.we have fought, and together we must defend our
Rights. Our opponents will find that we have not slumbered
in security, but hove always been watchful of all their ma-
chinations.

With, the fullest confidence that by your exertions I shalt
again be placed iu a situation the highest object of my am-
bition, • _ _

I hare the honour to be, Gait'men,
Youp.most obliged and faithful humble Servant,
WILLIAM MELLISH.
Bush-Hill Park, March 8, 1820.

The Committee for managing Mr. William Mellish'iElec-
tion will sit &lily, at his House, 112, Bishepsgate-street

ROYAL ACADEMY, SOMERSVAIOUSE.
NOTICE is hereby given, Tb all WORKS
inteuded .for the ensuing EXHIBITION must be sent in',
fur the inspection of the Council, on Monday; the 3d, of
by six o'clock on Tuesday the 4th of April next. Strict at-
tention is necessary to the established Regulations, the par-
ticulars of which may be obtained at the Royal Academy.

HENRY HOWARD, R. A. Sec.

rIARROLL, the CONTRACTOR with Go-
vefutiont for the PRESENT LOTTERY, solicits the
trinion. to the very new feature in the Scheme, being a
PECULiAIt ADVANTAGE t 4 EMILY PURCHASERS,
as it will distribute

SIXTY THOUSAND POUNDS,
In 2,000 Prizes of 301. each,
By•a PRELIMINARY DRAWING on the 11th APRIL;
And these 2,000 Prizes of 301. each will have, in addition
to the 301. the Chance of all the Capitals and other Prizes
in the Lottery, in the same minima: as if they bad not al-
ready been drawn. l'he Scheme contains ,

102 CAPITALS, including
FOUR .... Prizts of .... 30,0001.
TWO .... Prizes of .... 20,0001.
TWO .... Prizes of .... 10,0001.
3 per Cent. Consols.

'To enable CARROLL to form this GRAND SCHEME,
(by permission of, the Lords of the Treasury)
HE HAS GIVEN FORTY THOUSAND POUNDS AD
DITIONA L MONEY
To the PRIZES heretofore allowed by Government in the
Lottery, by which
X 303,500
In Money and Consols,
Is presented to the Public; a suin far exceeding the amount
of Prizes in any former Lottery with the like number of
Tickets.
TICKETS and SHARES Are selling by CARROLL, Con-
tractor, No. 19, CORNHILL, and 25, OXFORD-STREET,
LONDON, and by all his Agents in the Country; who
Shared and Sold iu the last few Months,
2,387 ...... L. 30,000 7,003 L. 5,000
706 21,000 2,226 4,000
1,345 20,000 &c.

PUBLICATIONS.

This Day was published,
In Two Volumes, 12mo. price 12s. boards,

GOOD HUMOUR ! or, MY UNCLE THE
GENERAL.

BY A TIIIRD COUSIN.

In this Work will be found some interesting particulars re,
lative to the retreat of the late Lieutenant-General. Sir Joht
Moore to Corunna.

Printed for T. Egerton, Whitehall, and may be had of al
Booksellers.

CLARE'S POEMS—SECOND EDITION.
This Day were published,
In Fools Cap Octavo, price ss. 6d. boards, the Second Edition
of
POEMS Descriptive of RURAL LIFE and
SCENERY.
By JOHN CLARE, a Northamptonshire Peasant.
The Summer's Flower is to the Simmer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die."—SHAKSPEARE.
London ; Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 93, Fleet-street,'
and E. Drury, StainfOrd.

THE COLONIES.

ON TILE PRESENT STATE OF EDUCATION IN
LOWER CANADA. '

(Prom the Quebec: Gazette f December 'and January.

Although the deficiency of general education iri
this Province is daily felt by its inhabitants, in
the common intercourse and transactions of life,
'there are perhaps few th:tt are aware of its full
extent, and the woeful deficiency of the existing
means of remedying so great an evil.
Both will, we presume, be more generally per-
ceived by a statement of the existing public in-
stitutions for general education and elementary
schools throughout the Province, and an estimate
of the number of students and scholars in them,
compared wi!li the number of young persons of a:
proper age for instruction.
Although. the establishments of the Jesuits, the
chief institutions for the education of the male
youth of the country before the conquest, were
'broken s►p at that tinte;ltild their•property stiffer.
ed to.be diverted from the only titre for which it
could be held under their rules, the public at tho-
rities of the country never occupied themselves
with providing and tacilitating the means of edu-
cation for the people, till the year 1801,ten years
atter the establishment of the present Constitu-
tion, and forty-one after the conquest.
In that year an Act was passed by the Provin-
cial Legislature, for the establishment of a Royal
Institucion for the promotiola of learning and the
establishment of Free Schools throughout the
Province.

, The public will judge how far this law was
adapted to its professed object, by the result, after
a lapse of 19 years.
On the 26th of March last, the following infor-
mation relative to the execution of the different
provisions of that Act, was prayed for by'an una-
nimous Address of the House.of Assembly
" Resolved,'That an humble Address be presented to His
Grace the Governor in Chief, praying his Grace will be pleas-
ed to cause to be laid before this House, • the following in-
formation, relating to the execution of the Act passed in the
forty-first year of the reign of His present Majesty, inti-
tuled, " An Act for the Establishment of Free Schools, and
the Advancement of Learning in this province,;' or such part
of the said information:as can at present be obtained.

" Ist. A List of the Trustees of the Schools of Royal Foun-
dation, appointed under the said Aet, with the dates of their

appointment.

" 2d. A List of the President and Officers of the Body Cor-
porate and Poiitie, established under the said Act, with the
dates of their appointment.
" 3d. A Copy of the Bye-Laws ordained and constituted
by. the said Corporation, for the government of the Free
Schools.

" 4th. A List of the Free Schoots erected under the sai
Act, in virtue Of Petitions from the majority of the Inhabi

tants of any Parish or Township.

"sth, A List of School Houses erected in pursuance of.a
Petition of any certain number of the inhabitants of any Pa-
rish or Township.
" 6th. A List of the Schoolmasters commissioned for each
of the said School Hoiases, with the date of their appoint-
ment, and the rate of their annual Salaries.

" 7th. A Statement of the present number of Scholars in
each School, distinguishing those who are gratuitously in-
structed, from those who are not so instructed, with the rate
of tuition for the latter.
" Bth. A Statement of the different brunches of learning
taught in the said Schools, together with a List of Books
used.

" 9th. A Statement of ttie different dates at which the said
Schools have been visited by the Trustees.
" 10th. A Statement of the Rents of any Lands vested in
the said Corporation, or sums of money paid by the same,
into. the hands of His Majesty's Receiver General of this Pro-
vince,-for the purposes'of the said'Act."

Although his Grace the then Governor in Chief
gave immeditte orders for the transmission of the
information requited, and although such part of
it as could he immediately obtained was prayed
for in the Address, no communication on the sub-
ject was received before the prorogation on the
24th April following.
From these facts it may be fairly inferred, that
the operation and execution of the Act has been
very limited and imperfect.
NVe know of no institution in favour of educa-
tion, under the Act, other than that of elementary
Schools, of which the following, we believe, is a
tolerably correct list

Sao°ls under A'et 41. Geo, 111.

- 1

Montreal,
Three Rivers,
William Henry,
New Carlisle,
Mannoir,
Pointe Levi, -
St. Nicolas, -
Cap St. Ignace,
Chat ham, -
kamouraska, -
Berthier,
St. Hoch,
Eaton,
Lachine,
Dorchester,
Terrebonne,
Argenteuil, -
Ste. Anne du Sud,

- I

Brought up 19
Riviere Ouelle, . 1
St. Thomas, - - 1'
Durham, - - -1
Grantham, - - 1
Milbourne, - - 1
'St. Armand, - - ' 2
St. Antoine, - - 1
Islette, - - 1
Pliillipshurgh, - 1
Coteau du Lae, - 1
Ste. Marie N. 13eauce 1
Portneuf, - 1
Cap Sante, - - 1
St. Roch, - - 1
Stanstead, - - 1
•tanbridge, - - 1
Douglas Town, - 1

-

- I

Total

Of the number of Sell(
cannot speak with milt(
cient information. Frot
able to learn on the s
average does not exceed T
we believe there are very
Total Schools under tl
Scholars.

olars in each School we
:knee, for want of llific
In all. that we have been
inbject, we believe the
twenty. Of Free Scholars
few.

e Act 37 a 20 each, 740

For the support of these Schools there was paid
by the Receiver-General in 1818, 18741.-19 s. 81.
tg.; or nearly Three Pounds Cy. for each
Scholar.
Of the other Instittit'ions in favour of &lora-
don and Elemental), Schools in the Province, our
lists, probably, will not be so curreL t ; but ‘s,c

[PRICE SEVENPPSNCF,

believe the following will be found to be not very
erroneous.
Institutions for the higher Branches of general Education,
;Independent of Divinity, supported. out of the Funds of the
Quebec and Montreal Eccles►astical Seminaries, extended
• or instituted since the Conquest :
The Seminary Quebec.
The College Montreal.
The Seminary at.Nicolet.
Charitable Institutions for the Education of Females, insti-
tuted before the Conquest:— -
Congregation of Notre Dame Montreal.
Ursuline Nutii Three Rivers.
Ursuline do. Quebec.
Congregation do:
Parish Schools established under the direction and chiefly out
of the Private Funds of the Roman Catholic Curates :
Brought forward 16
District of Montreal.
St. Hyacinthe - 1
St. Denis - 1
Vereheres - - 1
Varettnes - t
St.,Philippe - - 1
Blairfindie - - I
Boucherville - - I
St. Charles - - 1
Presentation - 1
Ste. Marie - - t
Long-neil - 1
St. Vincent - - I
Ste. -Rose - I
St. Roc 'Achigan - 1
Bert bier 1
St. Cuthbert - - 1

District of Quebec.
Quebec , - -
L'lslet - -
'St. Pierre - -
St. Charles - -
St. Henry - -
-
St. Croix -
ittiCietille Loretto -
St. Ainbrui,e -
Beauport -

District of Three Rivers.
Riv. Loup
Yaniaciliche -
Maskinouge -
Baie du Fevre

Schools for Females establisllel
of the Congregati(
District of Montreal
P. aux Trembles -
St. Lawrence -
Pointe Claire -
Laprairie - t
Boncherville - I
St. Denis ' -
St. Hyacinthe .1

1 Total •32
,d in the Country by the Sisters
on of Notre Dame.
Brought forward 7
District of Quebec.
P. aux Trettildes - I
Ste. Famine (Isle) - 1
St. Francois, Riv. du Sod 1
Illy. ()Ilene - - 1

7
Private Schools established by different School Masters and
Mistresses on their own account or by Associations.
Quebec - JO
i Three Rivers - - 1
Montreal - - .I 0
-In other Parts 4

Total - 25
RECAPITULATION.
87 Schools under Act 41 Geo. W. averaged a 20
Scholars each, 740
3 Seminaries estimated at 500
4 Nu/mules ditto
82 Schools established by Curatei, average a 25 each, SOO
li Schools for Girls kept in the Country by the Sis-
ters, , averaged a3O each, . .
25 Private Schools Chiefly in Quebec and Iljontreal,
averaged a 40 each,

Total Students and Scholars,
Add to this Total for Tuition in Families

1000

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