Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1804-06-16

Your memorialists have been always
! ied 10 beiieYe that the free use of the ri
yer waSa natural right, and although it is
! good pohcy 10 encourage and make com
| pensation tor necessary improve ments, by
reasonable tolls: yet they humbly con.
ccive that no toll should be imposed nm
on those, whose business can be carried
on as well without alterations and i'm
provement, OF any sort, and thai the tolls
should be demanded only from those who
will obtain benefits.
Your memorialists admit, that some
small and reasonable compensation ought
To be made, even by those vessels, which
can navigate the river without any inn
proyement; but surely there ought to be
very material difference between such
vessels which can navigate the river i'm its
present state, and such as without farther
improvements are unable to come to Rock
cts. The law as it now is, does not make
the smallest distinction.
commemorative being persuaded that
the facts which are herein stated, were
net represented to the last legislature, and
that therefore, the law passed, in It's pre-
sent unjust and oppressive form, humb.y
pray ti'at the same may be eitherrepealed,
or so amended as to give full and adequate
relief in the premises, and your memoir
alIts humbly pray, sc.
From HE .fmerican DAILY fdvertiser.
Copy Of a letter from an enlightened Ma
gistrate OF the city of London, on sub
Ject highly interesting TO the communi-
~.
London, son November, 1905.
DEAR SIR,
AS among other benevolent pursuits l
perceive your attention is devoted 10 the
education of youth, upon which so much
depends as 1t relates 10 the morals Of the
rising generation, cannot resist the i'm
pulse feel to send you the. Enclosed pam
phlet, writtenbymy friend Joseph Lancas-
ter, one OF the society of Friends here,
who, although as yet only twenty four
years of age, has already worked wonders
with respect to the education Of youth.
HIS method of teac hing consider to be
great and IMPORTANT discovery, which
ought not 10 be concealed from the world,
and therefore do not lin the circles in
which l move) omit single opportunity
of making his talents, his merits, and
great usefulness known to the highest cir
cles, and already he begins to attract no.
tice, and his school has been visited not
only by some of the most opulent Peers Of
the realm, but also by many respectable
persons of all persuasons.
am satisfied from having visited his
seminary, that this extraordinary young
man can accomplish the education of one
thousand boys almost with as much ease as
he at present instructs THREE hundred, which
are (at presenO under his tuition. BY his
method the progress is extremely quick,
while the pupils are well grounded in the
branches of education, TO which their at,
tenlion is directed.
have been so fascinated by his mode
of teaching, that l have established a
school in Westminster upon the same
plan; and l trust and hope they will be
come universal all over Great Britain, and
particularly Ireland where they are most
wanted. 1t is possible that some of the
Friends here may have communicated TO
you the discovery Of Mr.. Lancaster, who
deserves every thing from his country, by
his extraordinary ingenuity, and from his
perseverance under all those Difficult res
which persons of narrow and contracted
minds, of different religious persuasions,
have opposed to his efforts in this good
and useful work, which appears III pecu-
liar degree to have been fostered by Pro-
violence, whereby he has been enabled TO
Surmount nearly all his difficulties.
| shall be very happy to learn that
schools upon the same plan have been es-
tablished in the principal towns in Ameri-
ca. The advantage to society to be deriv-
ed from such seminaries are too obvious
to require illustration.
l am, with great esteem,
Dear Sir,
Yours very sincerely.
p. COLQUHOUN.
MIR. THOMAS EDDy)