The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-02 00:00:00

PUBLIC. **CATION.

TO TIIE EDITOR 'Or TILE .STATESMAN.
Sto,—lt is an old'Observeilou, and a very true
one, that it is much easier to call omits ,thaa, IP
• answer an argument. Your Correspondent, Me.
ALEZANDIR CLARKE, 'wishing, I presume, to MOO
by an easy road, has pursued the former course. Ile
has done me the Amur, in•the space of a few lines,
to impute to me ignorance, jealousy, selfish Interest,
and revenge. lie has not scrupled •to call me a ro-
mancer, an owl, and in executioner ; and to assert
that I have not acted in a manner " congenial to a
Gentleman :" and he even wishes to deprive me of
the character of a true Englishman. lie has done me
the credit, however, to suppose me a Christian, and
considering, that the warmth of his •'riendship for the
Gentleman, of whom he has declared himself the
champion, has led him into these excesses and breach
of decorum, in true Christian charity I forgive his
slander, it ehall pass by me—
" Like a tale told by nn Molt
" Full of gtund nod fiery, siguifing nothing."

Neither do I disapprove of the spirit which has led ;
him to give his name to the Public, though I shall I
not follow his example: Ile shall receive all the ad- I
vantage to which that spirit entitles him. Whilst my
productions appear branded with all the -coarse epi-
thets which his inventive fancy can bestoW upon them,
Ids shall appear in all their native elegance and vi-
zour, dignified and sanctioned by the name of At Ex-
amaze CEastat, who, with a peculiar degree of mo- •
deity, first describes himself as a Teacher at Mr.;
De GIANT:Iei Academy, and afterwards informs
us, that Mr. DE GREN THE spares two expence to pro-
°ureter his ptipib the best -Vaster* in the different;
branches of their education. But, though lam wil-r1
ling to forgive, I am not quite so willing to admit, I
that I deserve the epithets bestowed upon me ; and, in
the first place, I beg leave to assure you and the
'Public, that Mr. DE Gas:terns is unknown to me,
except by reputation. I never saw him but once,
accidentally ; and were Ito meet him in the street,
am confident I should net recognise him; nor have
t any sort of interest, either in diminishing the suc-
cess
of his Academy, or in the support of any other
in opposition to it. I did think, when I last wrote,
and still continue of that opinion, that his plan is i
by no means calculated for the education of English. I
men. I have seen some of his Pupils, and am ready
to admit, that their account of the manner of spend-
ing their time appeared to afford them infinite plea-
sure in describing, though it gave me pain; because,
' 1 thought that their time might have been much more
profitably employed. I objected to the system of
military dress, military bands, public breakfasts,
public dinners, and the public performance of plays'
in a school, and gave my reasons for such objections, 1
as much at length as the limits of a Newspaper would
allow. Mr. CLARKE has not condescended to answer
any one ef my objections, or to support the propriety
of the system by any reasoning whatever; and in-
Stead of doing so, has descended to calling me names,
and entered upon an elaborate panegyric on the
character of Mr. DE Gaverne. It was to Mr.
'Ds GSENT HI'S system, and not to his private chit-
solder,. that I objected ; and as his champion]
Ins offered no refutation of my arguments, it is
only necessary for me to call the attention of your
fteaders to my letter, published in yotir Journal of
the 2Ath of February. I therein referred to the
Treatise of Dr. BARROW on Education, which I had
pot then seen fur some years ; I have since read it
again, and will not weaken thelorce of his arguments
by attempting to abridge them ; but beg leave, in
corroboration of my sentiments, to eal I the attention of
your Readers to the 23d Chapter of the 2d Edition I
of that Werk, 44 on DramaticEerformatices at School ;"
and also to the sth Chapter of the same Work, in
which they will find some strong reasons adduced
against the encouragement of foreigners as the con.
du tors of Schools in England. Mr. Da G itExret'i
champion blames mo for not having called at the
fountain head for iufermation. I formed my ideas of
Mr. DE GRENTIIII'S plan from Ms own. toter, pub-
lished by his friend, '4 A Csresrawr SUBSCRIJER," in
the Ilamp+hire Courier, of the 9th of December;
and, therefore, wanted no further information. \lr.
CLARKE alludes to a Circular Letter, which I hate
Dever seen, and have no knowledge of its contents :
the only avowed productions of Mr. DE Gnat:rue,
which I ever recollect to have seen, are the letter
above alluded Co, and one of his Advertisements
recommending his School to the public. There
is one point in Mr. CLARKE'S letter to which
I shall advert, and I have then done With Mr.
DE GEENTHI and his Champion. Mr. CLARICE
describes Mr. DE Gass rev, as having entered this
country a foreigner, without money, relations,
friends, unknown to every one, and that his religle
tuts and potitical principles were different from ours ;
and it would have been satisfactory, after that de-
I
claration, if he had gone a little further, and told us
whether Mr. DE GRINTRE had since changed his re-I
iigious principles nt least, and if so, wharwere the
snotites of the change, and what sort of religious
principles are inculcated into the minds of children
entrusted to his are; as there are, I should hope,
few parents who do not consider the religious insure.
lion et. their children of more importance than their
being taught the military exercise, or beit,g instruct.
pain any of the • other accomplishments which Mr.
DE Guestrna bolds forth, as forming so prominent a
part of the system of. Education adopted in Ms
Academy.
I am, Sir your constant Reader,
Leaden, rihreb`23. AN LNGLISIINIAN.

A young couple were regularly proclaLted iu the
parish churcll at Dumbarton, and the marriage cere-
mony performed in Glasgow, by an established Cler-
gyman. The, parties returned home, and spent tke
evening with their friends; but, before night, the
bride went off with another young man to Glasgow,
where they were ma 'by two Justices of the
Peace, and hare since lived together as husba-d and
wife. They nave likewise repaid the disappointed
bridegroom all his expences on the occasion, and ob-
tained his receipt for the amount.
It is said to be a specific for rheumatism, to apply
a cabbage leaf to the part affected. Chose a porfeet
tear, cut off the protuberant stalk at the bark, awl ,
place It on the part witty a bandage of flannel at going
to bed. it will produce a local perspiration) and .on
two er three repetitions effect a cure

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