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school, like many other great public schools, stands in need of many new and strong regulations, which the interests of the kingdom at large call for, with a voice not to be disregarded by the masters and governors. This is a subject which should be considered by every father of a family, and by every guardian of young persons, in this country, with the most impressive seriousness. Undoubtedly the expense attending an education at any great public school, is now felt in such a manner as it will be difficult for parents long to supply, or to continue. In education, and in the government of a state, every obstacle should be opposed to wickedness, and to the means of wickedness. There should be a double restraint. All passions submit ultimately, with the great majority of mankind, to the inability of gratifying them, and the disposition is best prepared by the discipline of necessity. In boys and youths of ingenuous tempers, sometimes filial piety, a regard for their nearest relatives, the advantage of a good character, and the pleasure of a good conscience, operate with the better and more honourable part. But human

infirmity is not to be trusted: it never yet was trusted with security. Laws, regulations, and strong institutions have the greatest power to enforce good manners, when the parents, guardians, instructors, and masters. cooperate fully in their several functions. It must be remembered, I am speaking of the education of boys, and not of confirmed habits of expense, of wickedness, or of depravity, in men. The wisdom and experience of those to whom I am addressing myself, will easily supply what I have omitted; for I have omitted much. Every gentleman in the country may cooperate in this important and patriotic intention. If the great public schools are suffered to proceed, as they have hitherto moved on, we shall soon see, that trifles alone will be preserved, while every thing which is solid and valuable will sink to the bottom, and be lost for ever. There are wounds, and ob• structions, and diseases in the civil and educatorial, as well as in the natural, body, for which the re.noval of the part affected is alone efficacious. At an hour like this, are we to stand in consultation on the remedy,

when not only the disease is ascertained, but the very stage of the disease, and its specific symptoms? Are we to spare the sharpest instruments of authority, and of censure, when public establishments are gangrened in the vital organs? Men, however dignified in their public station, however concealed under the guise of hypocrisy, or confiding in the shameless front of unblushing guilt, may at least be made cautious, or alarmed, or convicted before the tribunal of public opinion. Before that tribunal, and to the law of

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to answer. And what is at last obtained by the boys at this school? Truly, a very accurate and extensive classical erudition; which, however generally useful, and highly ornamental, can never atone for the loss of integrity, the wreck of morals, and the annihilation of religion.

ESSAY XXX.

NARRATIVE CONTINUED.

"THE morning after I had given in my resignation, as I was going out into Collegestreet, Dr. Chelsum, the man who first sounded the alarm bell against Gibbon, (for he was the first who smelt out the heresy of the Roman historian's ecclesiastical chapters, and, in consequence thereof, opened in a vehement pamphlet, in order to rouse the indignation of the public against so insidious and dangerous an attack upon the Christian religion,) stepped up to me, and, very solemnly requested that I would promise him to go home to my father: I did promise; he thanked me in a very friendly and gentlemanly manner. We parted, and never saw each other again. He was one of the oldest, and earliest, friends, my father possessed. On my way homeward, as I travelled with a very dull, and ignorant, redhaired school-fellow, who was going still farther to the south-west than myself, I had

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full leisure for reflection. At first, I sincerely rejoiced at my escape from a place which had been to me productive of nought but guilt and misery; for my classical attainments were rather less when I left than when I entered ...; and to say truth, I had been very active, considering my very tender age, then fourteen, and very small size, and short stature, for I had scarcely grown any thing since my ninth year; insomuch that the great boys, by way of derision, used to talk of pickling me in a bottle of spirits, and carrying me about as a shew, in the late riot, bearing on my shoulder an iron bar, nearly as weighty as myself, and keeping guard regularly, and mounting the watch towers, &c. Indeed, it was a most ridiculous scene to see a handful of children with no weapons of defence, save stones, sticks, iron bars, and a few fowling pieces, presume to defy a whole country. I suspect, that if half a dozen soldiers, with their swords drawn, had present ed themselves at the outer gate, and authoritatively demanded admission, we, doughty champions as we were, should very tamely,

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