The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-10-25
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TIE ROYAL INSTITU7Jow ~:

| TIE R0Y.1L LrSTITUTTOM
On Sunday se'nnight Mr. Professor Feina
gle, OF Baden, gave public experience of the.
efficacy OF his method OF facilitating and as
sistng memory The managers of the Institu.
ton, in consequence Of the application of the
Committee Of Literature and Science, granted
permission for this public display of the art
without, however, making themselves in any
way responsible as to It's character. The exb;
biton took place before an assembly of severn,
hundred Ladies and Gentlemen, who were a.
tonished and delighted with the result of the n.
pertinent. -Four children, two boys and two
girls, and under - years of .ge, had been pu,
under Mr., Feinsigle's care but two or three
days before he had one of the girl. nut an ho,,r
and half, and the longest tuition that anv q,
them had received, was but four hours and ,
half. -.
| One of them repeated Goldsmith's Her,,f.
back ward and forward, and stated the stsnzt
the line, and the order of any remarkable word
required Of him
One little girl answered to question. in the
chronology of the Romsn Emre,ors, and
another multiplied, without slate or paper. two
sums OF eight figures by. eight, snd declared
that she had not previously been taught atitb.
metic. -.-
boy determined the geographical situation,
IN degrees ard minutes of fifty different cities
and on planisphere s.ked out on board |.
|
ed TO him
MT. F'neher,ofthe Institution, also recited the
MIneralogical Tables IF Ksuy, The second part
of which he had taught himself on Mr. Feinai
giles sy ste m. together with the first part OF
Brfsson's Ornitholosc System, and he declsr.
ed, from his own experience, that the princi
Piles of Mr. FsirsIge's art were eounlly c.Icu-
lated to give facility in the acquisition, and Ger
tsinty IN the rstsntion ofthe tables of any other
Sclencc-s fact which was confirmed by seve.
raj Gentlemen present, who have attended the
private courses of the Prof ssor.
The examinations were Carried ON bv Mr..
Disney, Chairman of The Literary and Scienti-
MIR Feinaigie retired from the Lecture room
No'hirg could be more satisfactory than the re-
suit otthe experience; and the company return
ed Mi. Feinaigie their shanks.
| London Paper, Jaiv z.
Doctor Meme, in dis Picture of PAiladei eh;e;
mas g,vens Philadeiphia price current OF the
year l7EO. IN which Hohes tea is put down ct
SOS. pouad, snd wheat at S. a bushel At
mat 'irne, therefore, II would rcqs,rr near II
bushels ut wheat % purchase pound of Bohea
tea /; st the same time, labor was probably a.
bout % o.2s. O.. day. 1t is certain, then,
that our grsni~nothers were less ex,rsyseant
OF expensive IN the Indulgence ofthcir fondness
for luxuriss than our wives When cayilIers
m%trons VINO went before us were content with
tie plain leverage of Bohca-you are provided
~ta an answer.--Ph!. Pcper.
1hcJoAowing ,s an e.rtracz of letter
from L,Derhool.
mere Is, at present here, a singular
phenomenon. The brig Travei,er,Si Just
arrived iron Sierra Leone. and is owned
and con- mandcd by Paul Cuffce, the son
lNnH al,
America. Her mate and all her crew are
negroes, or the immediate descendants OF
negroes. Captain CuiTce is about fifty-six
years OF age. has a wife g. negress aud six
cMidren) living at New Bedford, Massa-
chusetts, Of which state he Is citi-
zen
When Captain Cuffee's father (who had
acquired his freedon) died, he left a ia
miiy almost unprovided for, but he son la
bored hard to support his mother, his ore
thren and his sisters. He began trade in
a small boat, and, after while, almost by
himself, built larger vessel in which he
worked some years with assiduity. Having
rProvidentially met with a person capable
and willing to impart to him some know
ledge OF navigation. his ideas were enlarged,
and with his prospects he enlarged his
efforts to succeed Happily for him and his
family, his mind received religious in.
structions from the society Of friends, (Qaa-
kers.) and he attached himself TO .hat res.
pec'able body, adopted their dress and
language, and is now very respectable
member of that community.
When Clarkson's history of the abolition
OF the slave trade, fell into his hands, il
awakened all the powers of his mind to
consideration OF his origin. and the duties
he owed TO his people and coupled With
the sense ct duty which mis- religious in
formation mad given ni,n. he l0nged TO
lmPart to the negro race the blessings which
BRUSH Christian beDevosnce had been
reused to confer on Africa, This became
the ruling desire OF his mind The directors
OF the British African institution, having
heard OF this singular event, and that cap
tain Cutfee lhS negro, and therefore his
faYorite nance was about 80 sal Win hi.
negro crew me Longer a term Of seproach J
applied to tl,s g3fsrn1 -lt tJc 4 lccnyr
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