The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1823-01-21
GARDNER LYCEUNr.

Instruction at the Lyceum will be given al re-
citations, of which there viii be three each dav.
According TO the plan in our Colleges, there will
be but one class admitted each year. The wear
will commence in August at the close of the Sum
mer vacation, and those who offer themselves for
admission al any other time, will BE examined
not only 10 the preparatory studies, but in those
which the class into which they enter have pass
cd, previously to their admission For admission
10 tile Lyceum, knowledge Of the four fnnda-
mental operations OF arithmetic both unaI .,.naIa
and compound numbers, and or reductUn j. re-
quired After July next viii be added the ru-
diments Of English Grammar.
The whole course of instruction will occupy
three years. The studies of the first year will
be Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry the Mensura-
tons Of Surfaces and Solids, Trigonometry, with
its application to Heights and Distances, Book
keeping and Rhetoric. Those ofthe second year,
Surveying, Navigation, Mechanics, theoretical
and practical Hydrostatics and Hydraulics
Pneumatics and Chemistry, with its application
TO Agriculture and the Arts. Those of the third
gear, Magnetism, Electricity, Optics, Astronomy,
Fluxions, Natural History, and the Philosophy
Of the Mind.
The studies are so arranged that those of the
two first years will make course Of themselves,
and students who may be unable TO remain longer
than two years may leave at the end ofthe second.
To the second and third classes, lectures, &C
companied with suitable experiments, will be Civ
en- upon Natural Philosophy and Chemistry.
Instructions at the Lyceum commenced on
the lst inst. Hal IA.
report has been made to the General As
sembly Of the State Of Georgia, by Joint com
mttee Of both houses, representing the Gov
q
Monies, and recommending that in sorae instan-
ces they be not allowed. The report has irri-
tated the Governor, and he is said TO have sent
some rude messages to the Legislature. There
is prevailing party in the two houses, opposed
to the Governor, and the irritation between the
Legislative and Executive departments of the
State isvery high.
PirateS.-A British sloop Of war arrived at
Havana, on the 10th ult. with pirate brig and
twcnty-eight or her cRew.--A jamaica ira
der, on her passage to New-York, was robbed
by these freebooters on the l4th, in the West
Indies.
Human bones have become an aiticle of COM
merce in England II is said not less than a
million OF bushels were brought over to Hull
from the continent. They are ground to pow
der and sent principally to Doncaster, where
they are sold to Farmers to manure their land,
and have been found 10 answer a most noble
purpose. Many Of these bones are the bones Of
heroes, CLEANED from the fields of w aterloo,
Leipsic and Austerlitz
How sleep the brave who sink TO rest
With all their country's wish best
| many now be chaunted BY the pIoughmau on the
banks Of the Don, as he scatt6rs their precious
dust among bis barley.
Iroabte IN The south The Legislature of
South Carolina has passed vote severely CEN
surfing their Governor, Clark, for his conduct
in removing Col. Hammond, the Secretary Of
State; four readers no doubt recollect the cir
cumstance.l The greatest confusion is said TO
have prevailed on the occasion. The governors
trien IS after a desperate resistance, finding
themselves about to lie overpowercd, left the
house amid the general uproar. In Georgia,
ne Legislature, also, passed vote of censure
N their governor, on account Of certain disburs-
nents OF the public money, be bad made, and