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NEVER ACTED.
THEATRE ROYAL I'iIVF,NT GARDEN.
IS present EVENING, January 31, will
iro„,„roduced, a New Grand Operatic Diana, to dint
Am, coed
THE VIRGIN OF THE SUN.
mahha, Mr. BA RRYMORE; the High Priest, Mr.
Infra Mr. CRESS% ELL:. Telaskn. Mr.
CIIIPMAN t Don 'Alonzo, Mr. HUN'fI.EY ; Don Veins-
ars, Mr. BRUNTON I Right, Mr. YOUNG; Curdpn. Mr.
htuERToN tualir. Mr. 3INCLAIR; Diego Mr. LIS-
-70%; Ozuar, Ilk. BROADHURST. The High'
pc POWELLt Corn. Miss SMITH ; Ansashi. Mira IE-
-ItON ; Ono Boi•TON lia. Mrs. II ILDE.
To %slur* will be Added Varte. called
RAISING THE WIND.
Tk Pi.ntominie of Hartrquiu and Padmaaftua w ill be repented
Oren cirri ing till NI Notier.

NATIONAL EDUCATION. bow far Gentlemen conceive the plan may answer
-....- , the end proposed :—and, secondly, how far they are
LINCOLN MEETING. disposed to promote it. .
[Ride following Itopeet has been hooded to us by the Editor of 1 Mr. LaNivrox.—lf that be the case, it seems to me
the SrAstrintn News, for which Paper It has been taken, that we are precluded from all examination of tbit
and in which it will appear this day. We are authorised subject, and all amendment of the plan.
to announce that this Report wiU be published In the form oU,
, Lord BitowmLow.—Our wish is to establish our
a Pamphlet, together with &DIARIES suggested by the prw. t
i
reit D News.] school on
the plan of the National System of Educe-
teed ink at the 'Lincoln Meeting, by the Editor of the STAIN.
i don established already in London ; though it is pos-
• . . - sible we may not he entirely satisfied with it, and
This Meeting, which was convened by public td- i may think to propose some improtrethents. i
vertisemont, in the nanws of the Bishop of Lincoln, Sir ROBERT HERON then- rose.—My Lords and
and the Lord Lieutenant of the County, was held ea i Gentlemen, there are no persons; here, present, who
Thursday, the `23d of January, in the Court. It wall . c rtain a doubt of my firm attachment to the,
respectably attended, but by u9,11p0 Ivo- a. , . sby taw established. 1 *ally beliestuthir
-',.a.9 had.bepo geepeekly c4tptitAl•- 1 '''"" ; system of that church is admiribly calculated to'sn-
of the r 'tlemen - 11 the ends of religion and morality : and that

a•file .a., Two Nigh* af
jaw*. the Poison fres; or, llsrlequia
in
SANS PA ILLAL intglntge-
(Uuder the Awtbsortiv or the Lsrd L ii.)
Tpresent FRIDAY, January XL, and
B. aW TO-Nft/RHOW, Saturday, Feb. 1, Isl 2, will be
prorated, the fasoarke Eitsrlett4
TIIE MAGISTRATE. •.. •
Edward, by Mr. Glenville, his Ist app .:trance in dad diameter.
Alter %filch, a New Splendid Barletta.
THE VIZIER'S.SON. MERCHANT'S DAII.IO.IFiTER,
AND UGLY WOMAN OF BAGI)A0. The Viziee.
SAi, Mr. Hudson ; Merchant's Mumbler. Miss Scott. To iron-
dude with a %.rio 'Comic ts,ntraminte. called TOE. POISON
THEE: Olt. 11ARLIQUIN IN JAVA. llarlequia. Mr.
Painollino. Signior Montignani ; Clown young Jalleai
tt 1d Alan. Mr. Pack. Columbine, Miss Rttigley. Vaaotas
sun-s, by Mr. Glenville. Mrs. Garrick, &c.
Ar.d a New Pas 'front. by Signior Moirrignani, Mao Lever,
and Cummins.
Doors two. at kaltpast Five. begin at half-rot Six. Suing
44, Pia, 24. 1:311er.. tiernnd Price at Jrall-p:ist
rheti i, Ce at • .te Theatre

►resent were clergy,

~.ote part o) gentlen, pt _
men. This we are not surprised at, when we recol-
lect that they came together at the call of the Llishop,
to assist in establishing a System of Education
amongst the Poor, which has for its object to prevent
the spread of dissent, and keep the lower orders of the
people within the pale of the national Church. The
Clergy were, therefore, eager to obey this very inte-
resting slit:miens ; but their surprise was not small
when they found his Lordship, their Right Reverend
Superior, was not to be himself of the party.—" Yes,
I suppose the Bisl op will be here," was in every
mouth but it was afterwards whispered about, that
" his. Lordship was very poorly."
In consequeace of this it Aces deemed expedient
that the besibess of the day should be opened by the
Lord Lieutenant—who addressed the company near-
ly in these words :
Lord BaownLow.—fn rising to address this nu-
merous and respectable audience, which has been
convened by the Lord Bishop of this diocese and my-
self, I have,to
.express my concern that he has been
prevented giving his attendance this day by the nu-
merous and important avocations of his extensive
diocese. One thing particularly I regret, which is,
that we shall lose the benefit of the valuable counsel
which the able and learned Prelate would have given
us ; and that business of such great importance has,
in consequence, fallen into far less able hands. I
conceive it necessary to begin, Gentlemen, by ob-
serving to you, that from a paragraph which has ap-
' peared in the public Papers, I am led to conceive a
misrepresentafion has gone abroad respettiag the ob-
ject of this:Meeting. I conceive the words of the
original advertisement were quite clear and express ;
but, to prevent all misunderstanding, I beg leave to
state, that we are not horn inettogetihre to-discuss the
merits of d(ffircnt systems, but as friends of the Esta-
blished Church, for a distinct anthlefinite object, and
therefore I hope that Gentlemen in offering their
sentiments will confine themselves to that object for
which we are assembled together. That object is to
endeavour to form a society, expressly on the prin-
ciples recommended by the Society in London, which
is under the patronage of the Royal Family, and I
should hope it is not the intention of any Gentlemen
'here to put any, one person in competition with an-
other. Our specific object is to effect a system ofl
,education on the principles
.and on the doctrines et
the Established Church. This must be the basis of
all our proceedings. The great 'object of all plans
of education is to make them blessings to those to
whom instruction is conveyed, and of course to in-
stil into the minds of the poor those active principles
of virtt'e anti honesty which will tnake them good
subjects as well as good Christians: And unless
education has some precise object, unless you instil
principles of honesty into the objects of education,
you may do them no benefit by giving them an edit-
cation.. The members of the Church' Establishment
are certainly bound to • convey to their children tho
principles of the Constitution, in Church as well as
State; and they are equally boned to insure to the
general mew of, the community,. a system of educa-
tion adaptedto our own Establishment. With these
preliminary observation% Ibeg leave-to submit to the
company present .a string of Resolutions.
Resolved. 1. That it h highly expedient that a Society should
be constituted at Lincoln, for the vurpose of promoting the
Eilacation a the Poor throughoat the rouoty-, by instructing
them in suitable learning, works of industry, and the principles
of the Christian Religion, according to the Established Church,
in strict unison with the National Society recently established in
London, under the patronage of his Royal Highoess the Prince
Regent.
2. That, to erect this desirable object, a School on this Sys-
tem be forthwith established at Lincoln; and that °thee Schmitt
be hereafter established, in different parts of the county, as
scan as. the probable amount of the fend, and the most eligible
places fur the establishment of such Schools, can be sufficiently
ascertained.
3. That this Society will receive applications in favonr of,
and, as far as may be in its power, will assist, the Parochial
and other Charity Schools in the county, being conducted upon
the principles prescribed by the National Society.
4. That the hooks to he used, be Stich only as are contained
in the catalogue of hooks published for the Society for Promo-
ting Christian Knowledge,
5. That this Society shall communicate with the National So-
ciety, in order to preserve, as far as circumstances will admit,
a perfect uniformity in their regulations and proceedings; and
that a like communication he kept op with similar Societles
es-
tablished in other places, for the sake of mutual information and
assistance.
[The other Resolutions concerned the Officers of the Society,
and other matters of form.]
The DEAN of Liticoest (Dr. Gordon), conceived
the Object of this meeting to be what had been ex,
pressed in the advertisement, and very properly ex-
plaineclby his Lordship in the chair ; and that the
resolutions which had .been read were those best
adapted to • forward.that object. Be should, there-
fore, beg leave to second them.
GEORGC LANGTON,. Esq. asked, whether it was to
be understoOd that' no discussion would be allowed
on the sot From what
had fallen

SEGO' D EDIITIONs
Prier Is. 6d.
rir TIE GHOST of" STIUP FS," which was
prematurely stifled lu its Birth in January, Ibid.
*6 Mint Is the vengeful task to tell;
•
The evils n hill' a P—e heel 4
When, like his ancient god.hip,Jove,
He drops into the suds of Iiave."GEOST•
BV JEREMIAH JUVKNAL.
Lanka: Publblird by M. Jour,,.. Nengate-street.

TO BF. SO' D BY PRIVATE CONTRACT,
A LEASE of Fourteen Years of a very excellent
11 Manor Farm, called N A PSIIORY, rear St. Album.
Mats; comprising a good rlmellsog•h use. tritsti,.. garden,
orchorits, and 408 arses of meadow, pa-•ore, rind arable land,
yen tc...-h adapted to the turnip hasbatulty. lsomediAte pot
sr—iito may be had.
For further Particulars apply Of by letter, pest paid) In
Adam Murray, Surveyor and Land Agent, J, Picket-,tart,
Temple-bar.

TO RE SOLD DT PRIVAIIi CONTItAC'f
ONE Thousand Two Hundred and Forty-five
OAK TREES, of did-emit dimievions standing to Kings.
Intl Raid, Purse. ..f Phrweveriwt.- Kent; 10171•411 ISLAnliv.
at very law dimemionn, sit Lnvt Wiebhion. A considerable
mastiry of Underwood is Klorshill Wood.
Vfillitm Davidson, at the Gay Earl of Warwick Inn, Wel-
ling. will show the Timber and Underwood ; and Particulars
ono be knows by application to Adam.Merray, Surveyor and
Lind Agent, Si l'ieket-streel, Tanople,bar.

TO TIMBER MERCHANTS AND BUILDERS. I
TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT,
N extensive Forest of FIR TIM ISM, in Pee-
blesoltire, Scotland, situate on the flanks of the River
freed, and onli. %miles from the Port of Leith, where there is
every facility for ..tippiltg it to the London Market. This Forest
Inutains Trees of dirge dimensions. being "roisiderably more
thso one horalred vrara' growth' and tit fordmittlings eveiy de-
tiptioo. There is n tam' excellent Saw Mill, drove by water.
h•al the purciurec_of the Timber may be siecommeklated with
-for caning any sized Plank they may iltink fit.
moy be know by applying to Mr. Turnbull, Pre-
or Advil Alurray, Surveyor and Lalwl Agent, 3, Pickett-
Meet, rroyir-bar, London. Letters post void.

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derstood by one in five hundred amongst !bein ; but
their animosity is kept alive by thiconstant irritation
given them. If, however, you let thent'see that you
are their friends, and are willing to lie on good.terins •
with-them, lam persuaded that Schism would snot
long exist amongst them. One of the best apt
know of, to prove your friendship to thew, and thin,
to promote the advancement of the cause whiclrlies
nearest your hearts, will be to give er!,cation to, and
enlighten the minds of the people who differ from you
in religion. Is the system you are disposed to sup.
port so bad that you are afraid it sbould be under-
: stood ? Is it so tyraonical and 'so oppressive that it
can subsist on yarlaky ignorance, and 4,jwoping the
Lein Hy, respecting its meitfs ? If this ha
it& 6se, I needs must say, the sooner it is made ;n
lend of, the bettei.

swer a, _agi s
those parts of our Constitution which concern the! Gentlemen, the fact is, that a great part of those
government are as well adapted to assist the pwrposee who dissent from us, are extremely ignorant. Let
of the Constitution at they can be. But, while I it not be supposed, that I mean to cast reflections on
declare my attachment to the Constitution,. I must , the Dissenters as a bedyt —freely of them are highly
observe, that lam come perhaps not so well Wormed enlightened, but the Present company will agree with
as the Noble Lord who has opened th 4 business, as me, that a large preportion of them are extremely
to the intentions of those who called the meeting. I , ignorant, and that they are kept in ignorance by the
came with an opinion on the expediency of a plan for ' mean class of tenchers that is found amongst them.
educating the poor :—but I also came open to convic- I Teach them to think, and they will• not long be
tion ; if that opinion be not right, I
,am ready top slaves to such ignorant teachers. They may be con-
i hear all persons who choose to deliver their opinions, ' ciliated by the exereiseof liberality:—they will learn
whatever they may be, that the object we have in I to think for themselves; and though they may not
view may be brought about by the assistance of all , be converted by your exertions, (for 1 should be sore
persons who may be present, and that what is best ' ry to see any attept made at conversion,) they will
may be accomplished. conrcrt themsclrex. "o evil can follow to the com-
But surely, Gentlemen, nothing can be more ridi- munity at large from the adopticm of a liberal sys-
culous than to say, we are not to diicuss the sub- ! tern ; and the best advantages must' spring out of it.
ject. It is impossible that the Gentleman who inti- I There are amongst you, Gentlemen, many who
mated that this was the design of the Honourable I think theta plan which would embrace the whole of
,Chairman, could have understood him. We are not 1 the people, would not teach a sufficiency of religion.
called together by a summons from the Sheriff, but ! to any view of this subject, I may be entirelywrinig„
by a still greater authority.—We are called by the I for I have not devoted my particular attention to the;
Bishop of the Diocese' and the Lord Lieutenant of l subject till I saw the advertisement in the Papers se-,
' the County, in his official capacity, as Inhabitants of i but it does appear to me that' a sufficiency of ret ".
the county. All are summoned to attend who chuse 1 legion might be introduCed into the plan without any
to attend, and all, therefore, are of course expected point whatever that would exclude Dissenters, Or
to speak their minds freely and without reserve. 1 I even the Roman Catholics. What can you wish to
again declare jnyself a zealous member of the Church teach the children more than reading, writing, and
of England, but I hope and trust that every person I arithmetic, the principles of virtue and the Christian
will be heard with candour and attention, who may i Religion. To do this, it is sufficient that the Bible
come forward to give an opinion on this important be read. It is read in the schools of Lancaster. The
subject. I do, Gentlemen, feel a high degree of sa- children will not thus he deprived of any means they
tisfaction, and do congratulate the country at large, have hitherto had or becoming acquainted with the
that at length a spirit is roeseed for promoting the religion of their parents, or public eyeless. They
education of the children of the poor. That odious will still have their parents and pesters to instruct
;:itase is now no longer heard, that there is danger in them, and it certainly ss ill be allowed by all that it
enlightening the minds of the people. It has yielded is the business and the duty of the Parish Clergy to
either to views of a more liberal policy, or to the teach the children of their own palish. The chit-
principles of justice and humanity. Whateeer the dren of the Sectaries may he admitted into your
cause be, I rejoice in the effect, and would giv'e [schools, and may attend at their own' pieces of wor-
praise where it is due. But C m Cie smallest share of ship, as, is usual with them now. This would be
praise, surely, is not due to those who hare so Jibe- I found quite sufficient for every possible purpose.es-
, rally stepped forward before us, and called the atten- ! For what do you intend to do with these children ?-
4ion of the public to this subject.. In what has ,Do you mean that they should write books against
fallen from the Noble Chairman, allusion has been I the Pope? Do you intend to bring them up to be
made to only one system ; but it is impossible for us Priests or Deans ? Do you mean to puzzle and con-
not to suppose,' that the other system has been in 1
. found their understandings, bv involving them in the
view. Both may be very good eL-there may be a mazes of controversial clivioity ? What intention
great similarity between them :—but there is a point can you have, But to bring up the rising generation
lof importance in which a difference subsists, and of to be virtuous I Why; then, will you exeldde the
j that I shall speak presently. I hope the Committees children of the Dissenters ? Would you make them
to be appointed will not adopt servilely either the', better subjects than they are, by leaving them out of
one or the other ;—that they will consider them both
the sphere of sour benevolence ? Surely it would be
.maturely,
and select what will best promote the more advisable, in every point of view, to instruct
'great object we all have in view. It is of very little these also. You would be more likely to make them
consequence to us, to.c2nsider which Las the merit I converts to your es stem, and certainly would make
of inventing this system of eduction, or whether ! them better subjects. It may, perhaps, he said,
both of them were inventors, or whether both copied cs we leave tho Dissenters to support their own
from another. But, I must say, that great praise schools, and wifkeep to our's." All this might be
i indeed is due to Joseph Lancaster, who, in spite of very well, if we were assemble:: merely to establish
' great difficulties, and great opposition, by a'sacrifice a t;chool for Lincoln, or for Leeds. But there is
of his time, and the risk of the whole of his proper- something national in this plan. It is to extend over
ty, in defiance even of poverty itself, has accom- the whole kingdom, and therefore I must say, I
plished the great object of an extensive and expedi- , think it ought to be formed en a scale of the most
tious mode of education. Ile has, in a most disin- extensive and liberal comprehension. Ido not wish,
terested manner, persevered,' and deserves the best . Gentlemen, to detain you any longer. I have stated
reward of every virtuous mind, the gratitude of the the genuine sentiments of my mind. lam ready to
present, and of all the succeeding generations.— . relinquish them when you have convinced me that, in
However he may differ from me in his religious opin- any respect, they are ill formed. I beg to more two
ions., I cannot withhold from him all the praise *rat;. resolutions.
1. That nothing shall be necessary to entitle a child to admia.
On the subject of the particular plan whi
is due. 'ion in this School hut poverty.
ch is •ig ° 2.. That it he an instrucrinn to the Committee, to form a
stated in the Itrsolutions, 1 must confess I entertain . Plan or Education that shall not exclude the children of Dis-
an opinion not altogether uniform' with that of- the centers.
Noble Mover. I should wish your benevolence to ' " -Sir JENNISON aseanteer conceived, that the lion.
extend to all the inhabitants of the county, whatever , Baronet had considerably mistaken the drift of the
their religious opinions may be,—that it might shine, , motions, and that his whole argument was against
like the sun, upon every soil, and benefit all alike.— , what had never been proposed. It was not intended,
I wish, and shall move, that no qualification be ne- by establishing this School, to preclude the schools
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cessary for the admission of a child into your school, of Lancaster; but surely, if a tolerance is allowed
except the want of education. I am not solicitous 'to Dissenters to doss they please with their children,
for this merely through the influence of liberal and , they may adopt a plan which suit their views, anti
enlarged views of the subject, C have another reason, thus give parents the opportunley of availing there-
which is 'founded on my zeal for the Established selves of either. But he thought that when a plan
Church ; I may differ from many in my opinion, but of education makes religion its object, it must have
I shall beg permission, at least, to explain that opi- an advantage over the system which does not include
nion. I may be wrong, but I trust I shall be heard the instilling of religious peinciples..
with candour and indulgence; and that you will not i Lord Baoweeew observed, that Sir Hebert He-
suppose, because I differ from the Mover of the Re. i ron had mistaken the plan proposed, for that no ex-
solutions in the detail of the plan, therefore, that my I elusion was intended ; that therefore the first of Sir
views operate against the plan altogether. No per.: Robert's resolutions was totally unnecessary. Any
son can ever have heard it said of me, that 1 dissent poor child who should apply would certainly be ad
from the ChOrch of England—that I bold opinions witted, whatever the religious principles of its pa-
contrary to orthodoxy. But I am impelled to ob- rents might be.. .
serve, that a vast deaf of hostility has been cherish- . Sir ROBERT HERON replied, that he did not mir-
ed against the Dissenters ; and thus there has been take the plan, and added, 44 if you will give to the
much to excite irritation in their minds. Now, it is : Dissenters that'kind of edutation which correspspd
eminion, that if you remove from the minds . with their views, that is all! require. I'muat, hone.-
• -es this irritation, this hostile feeling, ever, just observe, , that es e
'th Regent is
_men-
- - `and souraged, '- - -- -- ef these provincial -tes •

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Jp, . enco tinned as the patron o; _ Schools,
___. sides, it would go a his Royal Highness is likes ise patron of Lancaster's
,e destruction of schisp. There , plans, and so 11 the whole Royal Family, not except-
. doctrine, in which Dissented 1 dif- mg his Majesty himself, when he enjoyed the hi.cs-
Established Church, which are not uu- • sings of bodily and mental health. Indeed, it ap.
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the subject of the present meeting. From what much to excite irritation in their
l fallen from his Lordship in the chair, he was led my firm opinion, that if you ret
suppose he did not mean to suffer the company of the Dissenters this irritation,
sent to discuss the merits and inconveniences of which has been designedly kept
plan proposed; and, if,so, there was no occasion perhaps, rat tdo much on both s
calliog the county together. great way to6ards the destructio
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Lord IlaowNt.ew.—l conceiretbere ire tyro great ire many points of doctrine, in
jects of the present meetingi—the first is, to know ler from the Edablished Church
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