The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-07-08 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

bide bath enabled the 17,11n1s of Edmeationf
.iter from the brood vira)s of destruction to the
... of order, hap,iness, knowledge, and peace; I
qfp there to join iti the holy chorus to that sal
Name, who said to those who did not feel sum- ;
•It for the poor little ones, sutler little children
unto me,atiti forbid then. not.' 1%. hat thelif sro's
has already etfocted, is the education of near
Iwndred and twenty thousand poor children ;
!ism of whom will ri,e up to bless his name, and be
,arks to the throne of his house, and blessings .
people of his love. As long as inscriptions on i v, e . cUbISINNEN, June 19.
have this day the .happiness to possess, within
tone shall last to exhibit his piety and regard for !
our walls, his Majesta the Fasperor NAPOLEON, who
he poor, as long as a pagc of history shall be found
or his faith and good works to be recorded, so long continues to review the different corps of the grand
bail his memory be blessed here, and in all nations. army. His Majesty eoje,ys the best health.—(Gat.
dav the glories of his eternal crown compensate far dc France) June 30.)
thorns of his temporal one : may his name live
`r ever, and his Samaritan work be universally fol.
baal, is the public and private, the Pitmen and hum-
p, desire of his faithful otllxtifautic friend, and
difti/ subject,
JosEPtl LANCASTER,
Who has had the hamtiness not only of etfecting
hi, pious wishes to a great extent, hut even of
sroesing the law Drones from their beds of
ease to try what Tun can do.
The exertions and libora!ity of Major A
(the Chairman), and the generous zeal of
lip rest of the Committee, demand my public thanks
a friend of poor children. They have done more
n mehytv Li.ea a cup of rod water to the little
Polity, in no wise shall they lose their

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Tneir that.lss to the Thke of NORTIItt3InEnt.AND,
r generous p Aron of this Royal Jubilee S.:hool,
(I f4e motiiii,T;of founder and supporter of that, so
•:;.nilly co:Marto& at Altivvick, graces the pages
f the annual rpnrt of this school, made and pub.
shed on th. anniversary of the Royal Jubilee Day,
Si I. My heart jair in the expression of gratitude
a Par of the most exalted rank and d',:nity, who
IL:, so much to the honours of his descent anti rank,
. that colleens for education, that firmness ia sup.
.itiugit, and that lore of religious liberty, vrhich is
honourable to the ancient and noble name of
t.acv, so beneficial to the poor, and exemplary to
nation.

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Boyce Jrl rl e School, Necrestle-on-Tynel
Ist of .silt Mn. (MQ3), 1812.

••mood: w!,:eo are not to thew wM beet, the
. la 74/ the poor are d.l.m.d to • ,tip drediny of deny kbour,
tsie #ll 'Prier ii knowledge will make chess onlotp-
pri I di•Mn•rntrd in their !W. It snit Sc,,tlund.
In carrying on which glorinns weeds the f)eites of K V:T
Id tratrir, fhe Dohs of Ilsorinn and Lnrd tiosthants.c. the
Irt• I•nt*t.rrr,r., MOM •• NW, t AP vttArrr, and a long list
t noble. and worthies of the empire, have all acted Host
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POE TR Y.

We like this opportunity of noticing genius, and
are pleas,tl with being able at all times to do any
iie4 that shall fan the spark of curly talent into a
.121 e. The following lines arc extracted from a Vo-
lac of Poems, written by a south of sixteen t---
THE TONI li OF AN INFAN
Thrice happy thew who early fall.
Who seucrly draw their feeble breath;
puss view the gloom that frownson all,
&ad sweetly sink is friendly death.
..Is crystal dew drops. purr and fair.
Adam the Dower. at break of day, •
Drank by the son, olii,•ritse is air,
Awl shine on Iris' varied ray.
they as pare, to fair, as meet,
.lust snit.e, and ,c•trcely learn to sigh;
fleaven's favour. then, with mildest beat,
Transports them gently to the sky.
rtev know not death's dissolving pangs,
Which softly sets their spirits free;
lind while his friendly arrow hasp,
(live life nod immorality.
While heavenly cherubs watch the tomb,
Where lies the dust in placid sleep;
Why will ye monrn his early doom,
Why, bending user the cbapletn, weep?
leteqi it spirits ! wipe away the tear,
Voce e, cry gloomy thought away;
!till love the Arras( that mourns thy bier,
And cheer with thought of endleta day.
Vet, let thy parent dry bey tears,
And on it the stroke in mercy given,
Taste comfort from thy early year',
And bless the hand that snatch'd to lien, n.
A • oftcr bed than she could give,
TO,. grave upon thy dose cm:rem.-
To die—•l3 but metro glad to live,
.Ind J elms' bosom kind 89 hers!.
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Jews 2(1.
His Majesty the Emperor is still here. Ibis Ma.
jesty employs himself in reviewing all the troops
which are stationed in the vicinity.—(Journal de
l'Empire, July 1.)

In the beginning of his work, LA vcArrEft had his
system to invent and to execute. His movements to
plan and effect. His funds to raise and create, and
all this to begin with only twenty shillings. No dif.
ficulty appalled him—subject to smiles and frowns, I
he regarded nei•her one nor another, and what is the
result ? The education of one hundred and twenty!
thousand poor children in the country, and schools in
train to open for 10,000 in London. So much for the
merit of his work, may many be found to excel him !
However he has not only the credit of labourinx ike
a bee, but he has also made the very drones attempt
to imitate his example. He has provoked a rivalry
which does no credit tp the motives of its authors 1
and abettors: for it cannot be honesty to rob a
Dissenter of his good name to decorate the Church;
#e t. It will do good to the public in the end,— I
' He has made two ears of corn, for mental bread,
grow where one only grew before—he has made
something out of nothing, by unmufiling Professor,
.
Meaux, and tufting hun nog that boll in favour of

raftarrw.—ln the Advertisement for the Salt of a Sunday
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LONDON
WEDIIESDA To iff&T Sp • VII&

Paris Papers have reached us to the 2d instant, and
private letters to the 3d. From these it appears that
BONAPARTE had left Keningsberg, and proceeded to
Gumbinnen„ where he arrived on the 19th of June.

This city is sttuated on the left of the rivr Pissa, 28 education, which before was only tised,by its " drote.
leagues from.Roningsberg, and only a few mile; from sj tinkling to lull the distant folds" of the sheep
the Russian frontiers. Ahout 40 miles distall is of the Church to sleep. lie has made MARSH leave
Tilsit, on the Niemen, where it seetw, proLabh' Ho- off his controversy respecting war, so ill becoming
WAPARTEIS pursuing his course to meet the Emperor his profession, and has compelled him to think of
AicitAsiuta, and where it •is likely another treaty general education, for almost the first time in his life.
may be concluded, equally fatal to the interests of LANCASTER has not only educated the children of
this country as the ones few years ago entered into at the poor by thousands and teas of thousands himself,
this famous city. but he has made the enemy either really or mord-
nallN zealous in the same cause. The goof he has
done the Church of England is beyond eapression.
In 1715, there were 3000 children only instructed
in London Charity Schools, and these schools then
of recent date. In 1809, they did not educate 6000
children:* In the coarse of near a century and a
half, from the first establishment of Charity Schools,
they, scarce educated one boy in four years ; and
thus Iboo poor instructed children were probe.

bly all that they (allowing an unfair average)
turned out annually for the good of society, among
VIE PROGRESS OF Tiff. LANGASTERIAN SYSTEM. i a population of a million of people. In the reign of '
Bzrust Parretti, Bishop of London, whose an.!
In writing on this subject, we are not about to :
1 common
.seal shone among the rich, and brought
praise an individual, but to State facts, and leave
the reader to feel their weight.
I crowded audiences to churches in the west ; in the'
The instant that a building was needed for the ; year 1795, there were reported near 8000 children
; in SChools in London ; in 1809, not much above I
first school on the plan invented by haulm LANCAS.
! 6006.-.—SO Dr. BELL, and the friends of his plan,l
Tan, he advanced out of his own pocket the money
for defraying one-half the charge of it.
I had the merit of decreasing the number of children inl
o
In governing his family, he treated the young per- 1 parochial and ward schools of London, by near-
sonsth
under his care as his own children--an altos. PY 2000 in number ; but what .better could a
.sys.
tion which, in worthy minds, excites a reciprocal
i tom of ignorance effect. In 3796, there were not
affection. By this means he obtained an authority that ; thirty thousand children in charity .or parochial
operated when at a distance, and some of the worthiest ;schools in all England, when, at that time, there
young men in the country are now filling very re-
! were 200,000 children in Sunday schools ; and in
,
spectable situations, retaining the same affection as i 1809, the Society for Promoting Christian know:
when unc!er the paternal roof.
; ledge had an income of 17,0001. per annum; in ad-
dition to which, the charity schools in London alone
Ile bearded a number of these at his own expence; !
did not cost less than 7 or 8,0001. per annum, If
and from among them vvere found the first school- !
: all the clergy of England had set their wits to work
masters the country have had from this school—many,
, to educate the poor, it would only have been a child
of them young men who I.ave now from four to seven
and a half a piece for them, aid they might have
hundred children under their care. !
The publication of his books were productive of 1 saved all this income for the public instruction
:of the lower orders. But they hate fractions, and
considerable profit ; he devoted nearly the whole to
his public work.
I love to deal in whole numbers. Vet, on this princi.
Ile began travelling and lecturing through the i Ple' if they had contributed but a guinea a-piece per
countr . lie trart-rited the empire, and not only j annum, it would have been sufficient to have educated
y
lectured to many thousands and tens of thousands of : allthe children in charity-schools in the country ; and
persons, but devoted the whole profits of his lee-
-1 the public money would have been saved. Even the
i
tures, amounting to above five thousand pound'., to Archbishops of CANTERBURY, one after another,
the public work in which he was engaged.
preached in favour of education, but did they prac-
The least thing that common justice would require, lice it. Even in St. Mary, Lambeth, parochial
:
would have been, that his travelling comfort should school, in 1781, there were 50 boys, and not one
have been provithd for, and his travelling expences 1 girl instructed in the parochial school. In 1807,
fully paid. Instead of that, his comforts have been when Dr. BELL had been ten years in England, the
comparatively few ;—gaing by night in the winter '
Lambeth school %vas in stalu quo; and it was not till
season, lecturing often six evenings out of seven, I 1809, that the school was extended to 70 children.
and travelling all night repeatedly after lectures, ;Since then, if the Archbishop has been more zealous,
we have no d' de to thank but LANCASTER for it, in
must have btomi no small privations of personal comfort .
; conjunction with Mr.Witerearan who first mention-
and sacrifice, to say nothing of the vitae of time, and
*danger to health. Indeed he suffered two severe and !ed his name in the House of Common ; and yet a
dangerous illnesses, from this very cause. I certain Peev said, in the House of Lords, on that
! occasion, there was no want of education in Lam-
In making these exertions he has given up time
and talent freely and fully, which, turned to his odors;beth. We mention these cases of supineness, to
advantage, in any line of business, would have accu- t s'ew what electric fire LANCASTER Las put Into
mutated a fortune. i the Clergy ; to dew what a renovation and
1
Nothing less than a personal visit to all the reformation he has wrought amongst our most
leading towns in the empire, would satisfy his zeal i zealous divines. We call on all who hare the
for the work ; Ireland, Scotland, and England, brier . honour of acquaintance with orthodox Clergymen,
full witness to this. Manchester, Birmingham, min. :to consider the change from supineness to acti-
burgh, Dublin, Glasgow, Limerick, Cork, Bei.lvity, and give their thanks to the man against whom
fast, Tralee, Swansea, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Not.: the ignorant advocates of ignorance cry out " clan.
tingham, Leeds, and places too numerous to men. ; ger to the Church," when their present activity
tion, have had the benefit of his labours. In many 1 proves the danger to have existed only in their own
!lawns his exertions alone gave birth to a school, or ! past laziness, for which they ought to give credit,
schools. In many cities, the instant he entered at 1 and vote united thanks to the man whose zeal has
one end, ignorance took its flight, and bigotry . kindled theirs—whose magic touch has awakened
them from their sleep by day, and their slumber by
quaked with fear at the other, In many cases the
entering of a town, and the giving a lecture, proved night—and who, if their Church is saved from the
' the means of opening the hearts and purses of the !ruin of their hands, will verily and truly be its sal-
-Ipeople ; and, if four hundred children were in the 1 vatioe.
I trail) of ignorance on hisentering, efficient measures 1 The opposition he has met with has been a power-
were taken to place them in the path of know ledge ' ful stimulant, his incitement to more duty—his op-
I'before his departure. In many other places he ably , portents, however, have had but few brains as most,
seconded the wishes of a benevolent public by his 1 of their sermons and attacks are only arguments fur-
'
exertions, and universally with approbation and nished by Mrs. Tams= ; and, as every body
1 success. Schools are established in North Ame- knows, she bad none to spare, it is not to be won-
, rice ; the way is opening in South America ; the plan dered at that even Professor Manse should shew his
is extended to Attica; schoolmasters are training weakness in this, as he did in his opposition to the
for that Continent: it has made its way to New Bible Society—we kstow how pure his motives are.We
Holland, and measupes,are now taking that it shall call upon that Clergyman's friends to say, whether
travel to our Antipodes, and visit New Zealand, by , he Would mind being hooted out of a University,
means of a person who has spent most of his life in provided he could be hooted into a Bishoprick !
that country.

LANCASTEft, then, has invented a system, and has

practised it in. his own neighbourhood; he has echue
cated tens of thousands of the poor. Ile has tra-
velled over the kingdom, and roused the public mini
'to a sense of danger from the ignorance of the lower
orders. He has never done good without doing ho-
nour to his Patrons. He has cemented the mind of
'the People to the Monarch, by the affecting display
of his virtues and regard for the Poor. By Mem.
bars of the tnivetsities of Dainhurgh, Glasgow,
Dublin, and Cambridge, he has been highly ho-
noured, and gladly welcomed. In evmercial town')
be has had many to advocate his cadge, and walk ill
I the way he has cast up. He has given the whole ctir
I the ptime of his life, for nearly eighteen years, with.,
out fee or reward, for the cause of education ; praise
I has never made him forget his duty, nor censure
I shaken his firmness. lie has always been at his
I poet when there was work to do. Frowns have not
applied Mm. The fears of his friends and his elle-
: ones have been his football, thrown before Mm, and
giving way at his advance in the path of usefulness