The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-15 00:00:00

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particniat.--braithes of knowledge. your
Committee think it necessary tecall your attention to
a new feature of the'proptised plan, namely, the total'
absence of the system of -rewarding and punishing
each individual child on account of his leaping his
lesson better or worse than his • companions. Such a
system not only gives rise to a kind of jealousy or
opposition among children, bet, springing from a mb
taken opinion. of human powers, it invariably tends ael
beitow its ;benefits where they are least required, gitr.
ing to the child of talent and energy fur his rapid pro-1
grass, what is more necessary to support the weaker
understanding in the unequal contest. But no con-
testis 'required, fur without the introduction of any.
artificial distinctions or marks of merit, among a est
of children taught, as we propose, to be intimate
friends, the stronger mind is naturally as much io-
dised to assist the weaker one, as the healthier body
help and support the weak and sickly one. Thus a steady'
system of impartiality, kindness, and regularity, on
commenced, breathes the very breath of union and at-
tachment,. and raises a charm which instinctively caw
pelt all within. its range, to submit to its captivating
influence ; obstinacy disappears fiom or never enteri
its precincts. and the toils of the schoolmaster are 411
terally changed into the interesting amusement of elk
serving with what delight amiable and rational wainill
receive useful knowledge:
But in order to snake sehool a pleasant plaCe to aril-,
drew, and the art of teaching them a source of agree.
able interest and instruction to the teachers, amuse-
ment mast be blended with instruction. and children
accustomed to understand and feel that comfort always
accompanies whatever is really for their good. This ob-
ject ivay be in pert effectetrby teaching them to dance
and sing together ; the one exercise stretching and
strengthening the limbs, and airing graceful movements
and attitudes to the whole body ; the other improves the
.voice and ear, and enlivening and giving grace to the
imagination, and both tending, while the children are all
treated kindly .Ind without the slightest distinction,
very greatly to harmonise their meetings, and bind them
altogether with a strength of attachment which we, as
we have been brought up are incapable of feeling, and
perhaps of even understanding.
Your Committee now proceed to detail the more imme-
diate arrangements, and specify, as far as their actual
information extends, the precise subjects which, in the
present state of the public mind, and the confined cir-
cumstanees of this society, may be taught the children.
All the children should attend the school in summer at
7 o'clock ; at winter at 8 o'clock in the morning; and
all those who have been finally removed from the infant
school-room, that is to say, all who have learnt to take their
proper places, and walk regularly together, should be
assembled to hear a morning prayer. and hymn, and to
be inspected, to see that they have been well washed,
and cleanly and tidily dressed; after which, being di-
vided into classes, composed of ahnnt the same number
of boys and girls, one class should be taught reading,
another writing, a third accounts, a fourth dancing, and
a fifth singing. In the reading class they should be
taught a clear and distinct utterance of their native lan-
guage, and made to read moral books, voyages, travels,
geography, natural history. &c., and the Bible on Sun-
days. In the writing class they should be taught cor-
rect spelling, and a plain and ire* way of writing copies,
containing either moral precepts.or the explanations of
useful sciences, arts, trades, or other subjects. In the
class for accounts, they should be instructed in tire most
approved method of conducting arithmetical calculations,
and book-keeping. In the dancing class they should be
taught the proper way of standing and facing together,
walking, running, and leaping step; a few figures and
positions, and a simple method of dancing. In the sing-
ing class they should be taught the notes of music. and
a few simple airs. All ether branches of study to be
introduced, and the above Mentioned ones conducted on
that scale which shall be found convenient and agreeable
to the parents of the children. The girls should have a
separate class for learning to sew, and perform other
female duties; and at a more advanced and improved
state of the Society's school, studies peculiarly fitted for
boys may be introduced, and both sexes taught
some of the most useful arts and employments in
agriculture and inannfactures. However, at the outset,
it will be wise to• confine the arrangements of the school
nearly within the ordinary limits; but your Committee
are well convinced, that union anal mutual co-operation
will finally procure for this Society all the above advan-
tages, and many more, which can hardly be said to be-
long at present to any class of persons, so prevalent
every where, is either poverty, discontent, or contention.
In summer it will be necessary to allow a breakfast
hour, but, in winter, as the children assemble much
later, they may breakfast before they first meet toge-
ther. Every day (Sunday excepted), at 12 o'clock,
they should be collected and formed in a double rank,
boys and girls alternately, exercised, and practised in
one or two dances and songs. A few from among
them, who show a turn for music, may be instructed
to play upon some agreeable and easy instrument, in
order to accompany the recreations of their comrades,
and thus regulate their movements. At half.past
twelve they should go to prepare themselves for ilia-
ner, dine, and remain at liberty till three in summer
and two in winter, when they should again assemble
to be instructed in their several classes till half-past
six in summer and four o'clock in winter, at which
hours they should be collected to hear
.au evening.
prayer and hymn, and to be regularly sent home for
the night.
The very young children will of course r •quire
particular care, and must not be so long away from
their parents ; therefore, those hours which shall be
found most beneficial for their health and spiri s will
he fixed upon ; and indeed it must be understood, that
all the hours here specified will be subject to change,
to suit the convenience of the parents. But hereafter,
when good accommodation can be found,it is proposed
to board at the school-house the children of such mem-
bers as reside at a distance, and who approve of the
arrangement.
Sunday will of course require a particular consi.
deration. On that day, as on every other, the parents
will be at liberty to send their children to the Society-
school, or to take them to their own place of worship;
but, it is conceived, that no place can be better or
perhaps so good fur the younger children, even on
that day, as the infant school. The older class of
children, should remain during the hours of church
service, reading the Bible and rehearsing short hymns
to the teachers, who should deliver morning and even-
ing prayers and lectures. While your Committee lay
down rules for Christian instruction in the school,
they think it necessary to observe that, provided the
conduct of the members be regulated by the practical
arrnagements of the Soceity, a complete toleration
of religious and other opinions, may safely and should
be allowed.

Ist be a variety of minor points
tiled in this report, but they will
,aced, when the Committee shal
bare procureci proper teachers, *commodious building,
and * sufficient number of children. Experience also
will direct, and powerfully influence all their opera-
doss.
Year Committee now come to the third point, epon
which they have to remark that it appears to them
that, the meetings of the Society should hereafter be
held in the building appropriated as a school, and they
venture to recommend that the school room should be
lighted every evening at seven o'clock, and kept
open till nine at night, fur the benefit of the uiembe rs
who choose to spend their evenings there, either in
conversation, reading to one another. or learning such
useful and agreeable acquirements as the establish-
' ment may afford. These meetings may be conve-
niently and advantageously thrown open to the female
, branches of the members' families.
Tire evening on which the weekly meeting is held,
"say be reserved as at present for arranging the affairs
,of the Society.
With regard to the last point, and before concluding
their report, your Committee beg to observe that,
anxiously desiring to see practically demonstrated to
the public at large the very striking advantages of
union and mutual co-operatinn, they have framed the
`flpregoing regulations with every consideration fur
'public opinion s and as it appears to them that no in-
laity should be made by this Society into the opinions
-of any of its members, provided their conduct and
practices be found suitable to the nature and character
of the Society 'which they consider essentially practi-
cal, they beg to reconttnend that the proposed name
id ticket be forthwith adopted by the Society.

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Etta/atm—lx the early part of our impress low Nester-
day. a mistake occurred in the King's Reach Report, King
v. Dolby. The mistake, howerer, was rectified before
many aseinbers'ircre printed. It originated in the harry
of businesit, by tmling the account from an ignorant
Reporter instead of oar own, and sending it to be com-
posed without reading it. A full and correct Report ap-
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