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juftice of the peace for the county of Berks, and fenior alderman of that borough.

At the fame place, by a fall from his horfe, which diffocated his neck, Mr. Burt, carrier. In his 70th year, Mr. Tull, of Southridge, in the parish of Streatley.

HAMPSHIRE.

Married: At Winchefter, Mr. Wright, wholefale linen-draper, to Mifs Pointer, daughter of Mr. Pointer, maltfter; in the Soke.

At Hound church, near Southampton, Jofeph Sydney Yorke, efq. M. P. captain of the Stag, and brother to the earl of Hard wick, to Mifs Rattray, daughter of James Rattray, efg, of Artherstone, Perthshire.

At Prefton Candover, George Purefoy Jer, voife, efq. of Herrard, near Basingstoke, to Mifs Hall, daughter of Thomas Hall, efq. of the former place.

Edward Ifaac, efq. of Brookheath, to Mifs Waters.

Died.] At Netley, near Southampton, to which place fhe was recommended for the benefit of the fea breeze, being of a confumptive habit, Mifs Emmett, of Englefield-green, near Eghan, aged 22.

At Winchefter, Mifs M. Laventhorp. At Silchefter, Mrs. Holding. At Yately, aged 76, Jofeph Edgar, efq.. late of Weymouth.

At Rownham-house, near Romfey, in his goth year, Robert Baston, esq.

WIETSHIRE.

Married. At Salisbury, Mr. Edward Joy, jun. to Mifs Catherine Newman, of Chrift church.

At Fifherton, near Salisbury, Mr. G. Kerley, of Wilton, to Mifs A. White, of Weftbury.

George South, efq. of Donhead, to Mifs Vince, daughter of Colonel Vince, of Eaft Lavington.

Died.] At Salisbury, in her 84th year, Mrs. Burbridge. Mr. George Lambourne, painter and glazier. Aged 85, Mr. John Randall.

At the college, in the Clofe, in her 69th year, Mrs. Mathews, widow of the late rev.

Matthews, of Fisherton.

At Devizes, in her 19th year, after a long and fevere illness, Mifs Ann Bayley, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Edward Bayley.

At Marlborough, Mrs. Hope, wife of Mr. Hope, furgeon.

At Ramsbury, Mr. Blackman, an eminent Kurgeon and apothecary.

At Burbage, the rev. Henry Jenner, A.M. rector of Rochampton, Gloucestershire, vicar of Great Bedwin, and chaplain to the earl of Aylesbury.

After a short illness, Mrs. Bifhop, of the Green Dragon inn, Barford.

At Luckington, in her 89th year, Mrs. Fitzherbert, relict of the late Fownes Fitzherbert, efq.

DORSETSHIRE.

Peter Damell, efq. of Yeavil, to Mifs Ann Hansford, fecond daughter of Captain Hans ford, of the navy.

Mr Rixen, of Donhead St. Mary, Wilthire, to Mifs Matthews, of Gillingham.

Died.] At Dorchester, on the 30th of March, greatly regretted by a numerous acquaintance, and particularly by the poor, to whom he was a liberal benefactrefs, Mrs. Hawkins, wife of the rev. James Fendall Hawkins, vicar of Buckhorn Weston:

SOMERSETSHIRË.

Married.] At Bathwick, Mt. Thomas Wilfon, merchant, of London, to Mifs Homfray, daughter of Mr. Thomas Homfray, of Stourton, in Staffordshire. Mr. Franklin, to Mifs Belinda Buck.

At Bath, Mr. Daniel Powney, to Mrs. Mafters. Sir Richard Steele, bart. of Ireland, to Mifs Farances D'Alton, daughter of the late General Count D'Alton, in the Imperial fervice. Mr. J. Simpfon, of London, to Mifs Catherine Harper, of Bath.

At Ilminster, Mr. Hine, jun. of Bea minfter, to Mifs Colum, of Horton.

Died.] At Bath, in her 70th year, Mrs. King, Mrs. Gaites. The rev. John Hunter, only for of Dr. Hunter, phyfician, at Bath. Mrs. Seare. Lieutenant John Chappell, of the 7th regiment of foot. Bowreman. Mrs. Blake. Mr. Pritchard. Mr. Peterfwold. Mr. Stephen Batchelor. At Bathwick, Mr. Richards.

At Shepton Mallet, Mrs. Brown.

Mrs.

At Ilminster, in his 73d year, Mr. Tho mas Slater, fen.

At Whitelackington, Mr. Richard Abraham.

At Yeovill, in his 68th year, the rev. Francis Crane Parfons, A. M. rector of Lympham and Rympton, and a juftice of the peace for the county of Somerfet. He has left a wife and twelve children to lament his lofs.

DEVONSHIRE.

Married.] At Exeter, Mr. J. Hedgeland, to Mifs Nelfon. Ms. Thomas Tucker, to Mifs Dawe.

At Chard, Mr. Hallett, of Axminster, wine-merchant, to Mifs Clarke, of the former place.

Died.] At Exeter, in an advanced age, Mrs. Parker, Mifs Campbell, youngest daughter of Colonel Campbell. After a fhort illnefs, Chriftopher Gullett, efq. formerly an eminent attorney, and many years deputyclerk of the peace for the county of Devon. He was a man deservedly respected and beloved.

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At Plymouth, Capt. Cole, of his majesty's ip La Revolutionare.

At Dartmouth, Mrs, Hoyle, wife of Mr. Hoyle, furgeon and apothecary.

At Ottery St. Mary, Mrs. Duke,

At Marriston, James Modyford Heywood, efq. He ferved the office of fheriff in 1759, and was formerly in parliament as member

Married.] At Burton, in this county, for Fowey in Cornwall.

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About the middle of July will be published the SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER to the FIFTH VOLUME of this work, which, befides the Title, Indexes, and a variety of valuable papers, will contain a critical and comprehenfive Retrospect of all the Books published during the last fix months.

Complete Sets, or any former Numbers of this Work, may be bad of all Bookfellers.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine.

I

SIR, TAKE

up my pen with the more willingness, to give you fome detail of the rise, progrefs, and present regulations of two charity-fchools for girls in this city, as one of your correfpondents, in a paper figned M. S. in your Magazine for February (page 87), has intimated a wifh to fee fuch communications; and moreover, because it appears, from the attention paid to many late publications on fimilar fubjects, that there is a difpofition in the public mind, to take under confideration whatever may have the benefit of the poorer claffes for its object.

The first of thefe fchools, ufually denominated the grey coat school from the uniform worn by the children educated in it, was founded in the year 1705, for the admiffion of 20 poor girls. At the fame time a charity fchool was founded for 40 boys, denominated, for a like reason, the blue coat fchool.

Thefe fchools, like many others in the kingdom, feem to have been founded merely for the purpofe of providing a better education for a given number of poor children, than they could have in the houfes of their parents or friends, or in a public poor houfe; it is obvious therefore, that if owing to any defect either in the original plan, or in the way in which the plan is executed, the children in fuch Tchools are not better educated than they would otherwife have been, the pious and benevolent object of the founders is not attained.

It happened about 15 years ago, that a gentleman of great refpectability, who attended the grey coat fchool in a medical line, lamented to myself, incidentally in converfation, that the girls educated in it were in general extremely unhealthy, and dwarfish in their ftature, and that after they left it, they ufually turned out ill. At the fame time he mentioned as a fact, that there were at that time in this city no less than eight unhappy victims MONTHLY MAG. No. XXXI.

who had been brought up in it, that depended on proftitution for fupport.

It ftruck me, that effects fo general muft originate from fome capital fault either in the conftitution of the fchool

itself, or in the management of it; and though I did not then live in York, I formed the refolution of taking the earliest opportunity of endeavouring thoroughly to inveftigate the fubject. This opportunity occurred the following year, when I came to refide in this city, juft at the time when a commodious new building had been erected for the reception of the girls; and I was joined by fome very refpectable ladies of my acquaintance, who were equally folicitous with myself to find out the cause of these misfortunes, and to fuggeft a remedy for them. I will not trouble you, fir, with the particulars of the fteps taken to effect this purpose, but will merely give an outline of the plan on which the inftitution had till that time been conducted, of the defects we difcovered in it, of the alterations we propofed, and which the committee of gentlemen who had hitherto managed its affairs, were pleased to adopt, and lastly, of what has been the refult.

The girls at the grey coat fchool were at that time boarded with a mafter and miftrefs, who, in addition to their ftipend, were allowed to reap the benefit of the children's labour. The children were to be taught by the mafter to read and write, and fome time before their leaving the fchool, were to be employed in household affairs, in order to fit them for fervants. They were afterwards bound apprentice for four years, to be found with meat and cloaths, to fuch perfons as might apply for them.

In the first place, it appeared to us, that the boarding of the children, as it made it the intereft of the master and mistress to abridge them in the quantity of their food, and to regard the cheapnefs of it, rather than its wholefomeness, was an ineligible mode of providing for them; and

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might, in part at leaft, account for their want of health, and for their not attaining to the ftature and degree of ftrength ufual at their respective ages.

zdly. That the allowing the mafter and miftrefs the benefits of the children's labour, as it made it their intereft to infift upon exertions difproportionate to the abilities of the children, might in many refpects prove injurious to them.

3dly. That although, by virtue of the original agreement, the mistress was obliged to employ the girls in household affairs, in order to fit them for fervants; yet being fubject to no regulations which fhould compel her to take them in rotation, The would probably be tempted to confult her intereft, by employing thofe only who could moft eafily be taught; and thus the greater part of the children would not be at all inftructed.

And, 4thly, that binding the girls apprentice for four years, however kindly intended by the inftitutors of the charity, who doubtless hoped that, by this means, thefe, young people would be certain of protection during that term, was a most ruinous practice; and this, for the following reafons.

completely ruined by ill ufage, and their little day of life prolonged, if it were at all prolonged, in circumftances of extreme fuffering and wretchedness.

I should not, Mr. Editor, have entered fo much into detail on a matter which could not be of importance to the public at large, were the interefts of the particu lar inftitution to which it relates alone concerned in it; but apprehending that probably many other charity-schools in different parts of the kingdom may be established on a fimilar plan, and that probably, on examination, many like abufes would be found to prevail, I have hoped that, by means of your useful and widely circulated Magazine, fome attention might in other inftances be excited to the fubject,

It is my defign, in a future letter, to fend you fome account of the alterations which have been made, and of the fuccefs which has hitherto been the refult, and

I am, Sir, your obedient fervant, York, April 17, 1798. CATH. CAPPE.

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine.
SIR,

That the perfons applying for thefe N your Magazine for February, I obgirls, would generally be fuch as were in neceffitous circumftances, induced to take them into their fervice, as they were intitled to their labour without wages.

That the abfolute power which the mafter or mistress has over fuch an apprentice, generally operates unfavorably on the mind of both parties, tending to make the one tyrannical and fevere (even where previously they were decent characters), and to render the other stupid and obftinate, diffatisfied with her condition, and unwilling therefore to comply with demands which in themfelves might be reasonable and above all, that in cafes where the mafter or mistress, or both, were previously unprincipled (a cafe which, notwithstanding every precaution, would in fact very often happen), the evils refulting would be incalculable.

We found, upon ftrict inquiry, that the truth of this reafoning was confirmed by what had in fact taken place, and more efpecially that part of it which related to binding the girls apprentice. It appeared, that fome of thefe poor girls had been feduced by 'their matters; that fome had run away before the term of their apprenticeship had expired (in either of which cafes, forlorn and unprotected, they had generally become the victims of proftitution); and that the health of others, not good when they left the school, had been

ferve a judicious and well-intentioned correfpondent requests fome information refpecting the moft proper books to be ufed in charity-fchools, and other fimilar inftitutions. I am an old man, fir, and a Chriftian, and therefore I fhould be forry not to fee the Bible in the hands of the children of the poor, convinced that, in maturer life, they will, from the peru fal of that book, derive their best confo lation. Yet I am difpofed, in fome degree, to compromife the matter with your correfpondent; and I confefs, I think the Teftament, or rather, the four Evangelifts, would be more inftru&tive, in proportion to its bulk, than the Bible at large :-or, perhaps, if a felection was made of the hiftorical and more striking parts, including a good portion of the book of Job, with the hiftory and difcourfes of our Lord, all in the language of Scripture, it might anfwer still better. Though I admire greatly the moral parts of the Church Catechism," yet I agree with your correfpondent, that a great part of that fummary of faith is not very intelligible to children. There was a plainer catechifin publifhed fome years ago, with "Family Prayers, for the Ufe of the Philanthropic Reform," and, I believe compofed or compiled by Dr. GREGORY, which, with fome additions, might be rendered very generally useful;

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Books for Charity-Schools.....Greek Verfion of Gray's Elegy. 3ar

and the exhortation at the end might, with forme alteration, be eafily adapted to the use of common charity-schools. Some of the little penny and twopenny numbers of " The Cheap Repository," might also be distributed with advantage among the

children.

The great difficulty, however, with children is, to make what is their duty pleafant to them. I fhould, therefore, advise, that books fhould be occafionally given, in charity fchools, as prizes to fuch children as excel. As it is a great object to cultivate in them religious feelings, and as all children feem to be enter tained with the perufal of it, perhaps "The Pilgrim's Progrefs," of which there are cheap editions, would be a good book to be diftributed in this way. There is another popular book which I will alfo venture to recommend, and that is " Rolinfon Grufoe;" a book which inftructs as well as pleafes; a book admirably calculated to excite a spirit of enterprize, to fhew the advantage of ingenuity and induftry, and to cultivate religious fentiments. Your correfpondent mentions civil hiftory; if that branch of difcipline fhould be deemed compatible with the very limited courfe of inftruction to which thofe inftitutions are neceffarily confined, I know of no book fo good as "The History of England, in a series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son," commonly attributed to Lord Lyttelton, but really written by Dr. Goldsmith.

I remain, Sir, yours, &c.
Low Layton,
April 8, 1798.

NEPIODIDASKALOS.

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine.

SIR,

AVING been difappointed of feeing

which a correfpondent of yours has long fince promifed to publish: I have committed the refult of my own obfervations and experience to prefs. This ESSAY will probably appear in the beginning of next month; and I hope will exhibit an impartial view of the whole evidence, as it now ftands, both for and against the new plan of treatment; including a variety of cafes which have been recently communicated to me, by different practitioners in London. As I have no favorite theory to fupport, it will be my first wish and aim to arrive at the truth, whitherfoever it may lead me. At fome future period, I shall Endeavour to fupply what may appear to be deficient, and correct what fhall be pointed out as erroneous, Great Ruffel-Street, May 17, 1798.

WILLIAM BLAIR.

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine.

SIR,

Believe there never was a time, when

claffical books were in fo much requeft, and claffical learning fo much talked of and arrogated in this country, with fo little real knowledge of the subject, as at this moment. We bring from fchool a fuperficial acquaintance with Horace and Virgil, Homer and a few Greek plays, with one or two authors mare: we then fancy ourfelves in com plete poffeffion of ancient literature, and promulgate our decifions with all the au thority of accomplished critics. I was confirmed in thefe fentiments by a note which I read, this day, in the " Purfuits of Literature;" a poem, not equal in merit to the estimate of its doating author, nor yet fo defpicable as fome, who want fufficient magnanimity to defpife to profigate a cenfor, are willing to perfuade themfelves. In addition to a most outrageous panegyric on the late Greek profellor at Cambridge, a ttanza of his ver fion of "Gray's Elegy," is immoderately extolled.

This ftanza, with your permiffion, I will examine by the rules of rigid criticifm; and can affure your readers, that it is neither more nor lefs exceptionable in its proportion, than the whole performance: for every line of which, may be pointed out at least one grofs error, either of perverted meaning, folceciftical expreffion, or vicious fyntax. The examination, however, of this fingle ftanza, will ferve to convince all the world, but the panegyrift himself, what fort of a scholar and critic this mighty dogmatist must be regarded; who has a competent degree of fchool-learning, and no more: who is incapable, I dare fay, of difcerning between the late probetween RICHARD

PORSON and William Cooke. Nor have I any doubt, but others would be able to point out faults which I have not noticed, in this very stanza : The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,

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grace of kingly fway," are a most undignified and indeed pitiful representation of the noble original. Grace is not employed by fuch, as know how to imitate the ancients, to fubjects of grandeur and fublimity, but to thofe of elegance and beauty. We never hear of the graces fimply of Jupiter and Mars, but of Venus and the Nymphs. Befides, no difcretive particle-or has place here: one of a collective import was required. This grofs impropriety is moft obvious and unquestionable. The pofition too of is altogether clumfy and inadmiffible. We can make no indulgences for fuch faults in fhort and needlefs exercifes:

poterat duci quia cœna fine iftis. Only obferve, how an artist of the leaft dexterity might have remedied these defects:

Αχαρις ευγενεων, βασιληϊδων & χαρις αρχας. But the profeffor and his encomiaft are no artists in the Greek language.-Laftly, ευγενεων for the abftrat ευγένειας is mean, and barely tolerable. But the tranflator, in the plenitude of his learning, doubtlefs fuppofed, that synas would not be allowable even in poetry!

In the fecond line the infertion of the article in the fecond claufe, after its omiffion in the firft, is the mere botch of a man, who knew not how to complete the feet of his verfe without fuch a wretched

a verfe, for elegance and fimplicity not to be exceeded. At any rate, we could have excufed the falfe quantity, the shortening of o before the confonant . But let that pafs. What is Adns? I know no fuch word. Adns, with the either at the fide, or fubfcribed, would have been intelligible: but perhaps our recondite gentleman has fome great authorities in tore for fuch puzzling fingularities.

Upon the whole, it is fcarcely poffible for any verfion to be more despicable than the ftanza before us: and these few remarks will ferve to prove what a mere fmatterer and fecond-hand quotationdealer we have in this faid author of "The Purfuits of Literature:" and it will be curious to fee, whether this affaffin of reputation, who is execrated by all parties, will violate his nature, and deviate into modefty, by omitting, or defending, his encomium on this tranflation of the Elegy in a future edition of his work. But he probably has not learning enough to know, when he is confuted and expofed: nor indeed is conviction to be expected from fo hardened a flanderer, or modefty from fuch felf-fufficiency and impudence. Hackney, April 27, 1798.

GILBERT WAKEFIELD.

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine.

SIR,

incongruity. I fay nothing of the power Ention of our fuperiors, I do HEN public follies attract the atand purport of the tranflator's language, which refembles the original just as ade- not fay that deliberation thereby acquires quately as a farthing candle represents the a fashion; but certain it is, that we little fun but requeft our learned admirer of people take example, and fitting in fothe profeffor to point out that paffage of lemn, yet humble council, prefume to the ancients, which will justify an ac- give our opinion and advice. And feeceptation of the pointed phrafe ra Saging that the prefent ftate of matrimony Appoderes in a fenfe demanded by this place. Homer, Anacreon, Pindar (fee alfo Virg. n. iv. 33.) employ the words, but in a lefs delicate meaning, than Gray requires: and, if we undertake to compofe in dead languages, we must not prefume to transfer their properties to our own idioms.

In the third line, I fhould be glad to know, whether we are to understand the conftru&tion to be ηνθεν εις αμαρ, οι αμας

: if the former way, I doubt the legitimacy of the phrafe; if the latter, the variation of conftruction is clumsy and offenfive. In either cafe, the claufe is unpardonably ambiguous.

In the fourth line, how the elegant figure of the original is profaned and murdered by moft facrilegious butchery!

The paths of glory lead but to the grave:"

hath lately been taken into very high confideration, and very fevere remarks made thereon, although no remedy hath yet been propofed, except fome small additions to the under garments of certain public dancers; I have bestowed a confiderable portion of time and attention on the fubject, and having flattered myself (an office which no man elfe chufes to take upon him), that I have found out both the cause and the remedy, of matri. monial infidelity, I now fend you the refult of my labours, trufting that you will not object to the early infertion of a subject, which, as my Lord Bacon obferveth, "Cometh home to all men's bofoms and bufinefs."

And first, fir, permit me to obferve, hiftorically, that the state and condition of women quoad marriage, has undergone

many

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