The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-30 00:00:00

I,avideon, and speaking all together, and with considerable 'CiltlellOO of
laeoliage aril manner. inquired" whether the teachers had been apprised of
thin :stended v;sit.' They were answered in the affirmative. " How then
had then ventfired to neglect having the children arranged ready to reeelee
them. with their Bildt., in their hands. that (her might each read it verse or
two'as'ilsual The teachers in lumed them that I had directed (which wan
11141441 the easel that each clam should proceed in the ordinary war, tlrld'
the gentlemen might hart. a fair opportunity of seeing and judging of MP
deity et.atiae of our school, previously to the formal examination, which was
the et,jeet of their visit. One of the Committee proposed instantly to send for
Mr, but that was overruled by the rest, and then contented themselves, in the
'Jirtran Owns. with hearing a class of hoes read the' Bible, which one of the
teactwisallowed them to do, on its being soleuudy demanded " in a greater
name than that of itle.Owen."
1 must, however, do these gentlemen the justice to gay, that eq at en- .
trance into the school; tire minutes afteneards, accompanied by 1111r.Ckgg.
. every symptom of anger or violence bad disappeared, and they conversed
with us, without nen expresaing airy disapprobation of my haring ordered
that no change in the regular school proteedings•sliould be made. They then
beard several other classes read, and asked whether they could repeat the
shinter Catechism. We said we did not know whether they could ail do so
or not, alai added, that the Catechism was taught to them only on Sundaes,
The Committee, tot. eyer, cot in..ng larded to do so, proceeded to examine
the children on this point. They began to examine those next to them, who,
Mr. Waltzer and Mr. Lazuli limit admit, answered to their satisfaction. Mr.
Wallseethowever, suss "that nut one of the 75 children, whom we invited
• to cue forwarLand whom we called open the teachers to bring forward.
would undertake to repeat a word qf that catechism but one. Now. if
troth did not exact from me the assertion, 1 should not inform Mr. Walker,
as I now do, that he no longer recollects what neither the teachers, tor
Mr. Clegg, nor myself, hare forgotten, viz. that no such incitation. nun
the part of the Committee, roe erer inniir. either 11. the children or to
the teacher,. Thereat reason why no other boy was es aminovl, be may per •
haps recollect, when I state to him the followhig circumstance :—When the
little boy abovementioned hal answered thequestions put to hint from the
Catechism, they inquired of him whether he was gut taught these things at
• home ? They gather. d Win hts snorer, that ba gratirlinother was in the
habit of giving ban such instruction. I (ear the pour little fellow must hare
been confiased by the intim dating manner of the Rev ;Gentlemen ; fur his
r andumther has dire positively diselaimed the merit of having apcenbiinanc
esthechetical imitructioti when err, being perfectly eatistied with that which
be received in unr Of this however, the Committee could nut he
aware at the time, and therefore I fear Viey coswltided, notwithstanding my
• unwillinguen, that they al Is.l receive so false an impression : and niv ell.
dearours tot recent their doing so. that tie Catechism was pnweribed in the
New lustitution, amid that, therefore it was WWI'Ss to examine alit ether
child on that round. They then prOceried to say, that at leant we did not
even profess to teach the Catechism on week day., antrevpreseed their
astonishment that we should dare to proceed }0 direct!. eolltrtry to the
law of the land, briweitig op these poor children without religions or
' rare! instruction ; and asked a hat I ovoid expect front children so trained.
when they reached tuatilosoti? I replied, as nearly as I can recollect. "that
we had never conceal.. 4 what was done in the echoole, and that, there
tore, bad they taken the trouble to inquire of any of on, they would
long slime bare been inforiited that the Catechism wan not taught un week
days ; that I was preterite miconseious of oar having arted contrary to any
law; that! knew of tes children whose morals were more etrietly attended
to; and that I certainly ciki expert them to become very stiperior men and
women; besides, t::at it was entirely a matter of °elision whether children
under ten rears ul age mold be benefited by being taught to repeat the
Catechism." I added, " that they must be aware that this wan a private and
riot a parochial sehooLOIOI that if they were at liberty to interfere here, they
were so equally in the case of any private tutor." Thee admitted the accu-
reel of the i merle' PINY; hut attuned," that they had full authority to insist
en every private tutor's [whin, his pupils the Catechiem."
Your readers have probable already atitici pate,' that it not our intention
to notice any allegations. however unfounded. veiny mar be eunveved
through antinyeneue ebautiele ; fur they know that he who fears to attack, ex-
cel t huder A mask, is unworttv of a reply from those who hare uniformly put
their neines to every statement which they have given to the politic.
I am, Sir, your obedlenteenarit.
New Lanark. Sept. 20,1621. ROLIERT DALE oWEN.
p. S.—Lent Mr. Lamb ,should complain of my having neglected to take
police of a vireunittaree, to which lie had deposed from penotial know-
ledge. I shall just allude to the case of the pig, which Mr. L 7.11111 Wan no un-
fortunate us to sell to the Company, eta loss to I • elf. If he will take the
Dmitri.. to tall at the countingdionse of Mr. aeam. by whom the Village
Stole is conducted, he will see the receipt for the money he got fur the pig in
question : arid he will thud that he was paid for it at the rate. not of 5%. as he
sass, but °iris. a none. The receipt is signed fur Mr. Lamb by a William
Tudd,who may be able to refresh that gentleman's memory as to the truistic-
. thin. With mimed tu other matters. Mr. -Mason will, at the Millie time. I am
rum have much pleasure in proving to Mr. Lamb, from authentic dorm,
merits, the extreme inaccuracy of persons who advance upinions without being
fu possestion of the requisite data.

• FURTHER EXTKACTS FROM THE FRENCH PA,
PFRS OF SATURDAY.

[FROM THE COURIER FRANCAIS I
Pints, Seer. 27.—The fort of St. Petri, which a tele-
graphic despatch says is taken, is on en island, situated to
the eastward of the Isle of Leon, and at the mouth of an
arm of the sea, to which it gives its name. The Quo-
adienne commits a great error when it says on this subject,
This position (Saint Petri) is of so much the more im-
portance, that from hence we can proceed straight to Cadiz
without fearing the batteries of Pantalets." The smallest
knowledge of the localities would have convinced this jour-
nalist of the error of his assertion. fhe Orifiamme says,
with as little correctness, that the capture of this fort ren-
ders us masters of the river by which small vessels arrives
from the Isle of Leon. This capture only makes es masters
of the entrance of the river, and pots as in condition of
firing on tie beats that enter, but it does not make as
masters of the river altogether, which extends from St.
Petri beyond:the Caraca, where it unites with the bay of
Puntales. To make us masters of the river it is necessary
to tend a flotilla up from St. Petri, which would force the
Spanish flotilla to retiretowards the Carraea ; then, ityleed,
they may begin to suppress the enemy's fite, and endeavour
to pass the river. Every thing announces that this will
•be the manner of proceeding. The Orifiamme furthet says,
that the possession of the Isle of Leon will make ns masters
of the road, and place ns in a situation to batter down Pan-
tiles. This is an error. The Isle of Leon being taken, we
shall not be intrantly masters of the road, for we shall still
have to take the works which defend the Cortadora. The
following is the natural progress of the operations :—!lender
themselves masters of the river of Sain Petri by means of a
flotilla ; employ the fire of this flotilla, and of the batteries of
the isle ; force the passage of the river ; chase away the
corps which occupy the isle of Leon ; advance on the road
as far as the Cortadura, make themselves masters of this
fortress, tarn Puntales, and endeavour to reduce it ; finally,
begin the works of the siege before the front of the for-
tifications of Cadiz which look towards the road. Such, in
few words, is what remains to be done, and such is probably
the route which will be followed, at least, if'some extraor-
dinary circumstances do not authorise a deviation from it.—
The disembarkation of which the Journals have spoken as
likely to be effected between Pun'ales and Cadiz, or between
Puntales and the Cortadura, may be attended with more
speedy results, but it would also be much more dangerous.
[peon erroi ca.]
Our private correspondent supplies us with the most curious
details of a conversation arrAch took place between Riego end
our correspondent, in the presence of a third person. Our
readers may rely upon the accuracy of the account ; of its in-
terest they must judge for themselves.
4
Asinuran, Smber 19.—General Riego is still here in the
ep
e
prison of the c together with three officers who were made
prisoners with hi at Arquilos. One of them is en English
aver. who affects great indifference, and whom Riego occa-
sionally banters. When his turn came to declare his name end
quality, he said his name was Williams, and that he was an
Adventurer. Upon the whole, the prisoners passed their time
more gaily than might be supposed. Riego is very communi-
cative. and delights to talk with the French, whose language he
;peaks perfectly.
I availed myself yesterday of this disposition of his to see
him. He entreated myself eft.l another person to enter his
room, end we remained about three hours talking with him. lie
replied, with the utmostemility, and even with a seeming frank-
ness to the num questions which I and my companion al-
ternately addressed to him. We asked him why, cud for what
object, he quitted Cadiz? lie replied, that he was generally
supposed to be much more powerful with his party than he
really was, and that his leaving Cadiz was by no means the re-
sult of hid own wishes; but arose rather from the order of the
Cones, among whom be had many enemies, who were delight.
ad with en opportunity of thrusting him forward. lie said
that he was perfectly aware of the snare, and that he was even
on the point of embarking for Gibraltar to join his wife; but
that the dread of passing for a coward prevented him. lie
went first to Malaga, where, pursuant to an order of the Cor-
tes, he removed Zeyas, and caused him to embark for Cadiz;
he afafessed that be had done thetas,e with about fifty Priests,
but still merely is obedience to the instructions of the Cortes ;
and be gave us his word of honour, that neither at Malaga nor
at Jaen.nor at Mentos, had he committed any of the atrocities
Imputed to Ma.
His object in quitting Jane, and seeing himself pursued
by General Boonemaio, was to throw himself into Cats-
Wit, and join Mina. He did not expect to find French
troops at Andojar. It appears, however, that the Con.
Whitlow/lists are badly.supplied with spies, for we caused
Mm coesiderable surprise, seven or eight times. by men.
timing things which were perfectly well known. He
said, that at Cadiz they were eatirely ignorant of political
emus, and that when he left it, he did not believe is the
submission of &Hastens..