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permit to leave the kingdom; which must be stamped and signed at three different offices: I obtained the two first, but, on waiting on the Commissaire especial, was informed he could not be spoken with until the next morhing! so I lost my passage in the packet in which I had engaged to go. On Friday obtained my permit, and at five P. M. embarked on board the Dover, of Dover, Captain Davison; and had a long, but not otherwise unpleasant passage of fourteen hours: of course, did not arrive at Dover until 7 o'clock on Saturday morning. We had then to wait until our baggage was examined at the Custom-house, which was as closely and minutely done as at the Bureau in France. Breakfasted; and, after visiting the immense works on the heights at Dover, set out on my return home, where I arrived in the evening, and, thank God! found all well.

"Breathes there a man with soul so dead,

Who never to himself hath said,

This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart has ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand?"

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An Address from the Magistrates in their Midsummer Quarter Sessions, 1816, to the Noblemen, Gentry, Clergy, and Inhabitants of the County of Warwick; and also, to the Inhabitants of the County and City of Coventry.

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HE Magistrates for the County of Warwick have long contemplated with sincere concern the number of delinquents who at a very early age have been brought to the Bar of Justice, at the several Gaol Deliveries for the County; the consideration has impressed them with a deep sense of the situation of so many unhappy objects, who, labouring under profound ignorance and unrestricted habits of idleness, have been brought up with no other knowledge than that of vice, and have no prospect before them but that of wretchedness and guilt.

In concurrence with the High Sheriff for the County, the Magistrates have been induced to promote some Regulations in the Gaol, the tendency of which has been to separate the younger class of Prisoners from those of a more advanced age, and thereby to prevent that contamination which is the almost in such places. They have also giadly necessary result of a general intercourse

availed themselves of the establishment of a School in the Gaol, in which the Children have been carefully instructed in the first principles of Religion, and have been made acquainted (many of them for the first time) with their dependence on that Supreme Power, whose name they had never invoked, but in terms of the most horrid blasphemy; and in which School they have been initiated into Habits of Industry, and taught a Branch of the Pin Manufac

ture, under the direction of the late High Sheriff.

It is with the greatest satisfaction, the Magistrates have witnessed the results from this Institution. It may not perhaps be too much to say, that by these means misfortune has, in some instances, been converted into a blessing, and that many will leave the Gaol much better in principle than when they were consigned to it. Here, however, the advantage stops short! for it is not to be supposed, that from a state of the darkest ignorance, and from habits of idleness and vice, the limited term of an Imprisonform as should enable them to resist ment can have generated such a re

the effects of a return to former haunts and temptations, and shall prevent a relapse into former practices. To obviate this almost inevitable recurrence, the Magistrates have turned their attention to the consideration of some Establishment, where such Offenders as may be of an age to allow hope of reform, may find an Asylum, at a distance from the original scene of their depravity; may be removed from that School of iniquity in which they have been educated-may be instructed in some useful Trade or Employment-confirmed in their religious acquirements, and finally put into a way of obtaining by their industry an honest livelihood.

This Address therefore is intended as an appeal to the humanity of this respectable County; and it is earnestly requested that individuals will take the

case into their serious consideration. How far the Charitable Institution in contemplation may be practicable and extend, must be determined by the contributions of those who are invited to turn their thoughts to the subject. It

is not proposed to engage in an undertaking on a large scale; but to provide a receptacle for such a definite number of both Sexes as their Funds may enable the Subscribers to withdraw from a vicious course of life and the fatal consequences thereof.

The Publick may in due time derive some advantage from their liberality, inasmuch as it is to be presumed, the present enormous 'charge on the County Rate for Prosecutions may eventually be much reduced-the Magistrates however rest their application on higher motives-they appeal neither to personal considerations nor to the passions of their fellow countrymen; but to that sober reflection which should form the legitimate basis of such a proposal as is

now submitted to them.

Those excellent Institutions in the Metropolis, "The Philanthropic Society," and "The Refuge for the Destitute,' suggest the ground-work on which the Magistrates wish to erect their more limited establishment. For the information of such as may not be already acquainted with these Charitable Foundations, a short abstract is annexed of some of the leading features of the former; further Information may be obtained, by a reference to its Annual Report.

It remains only to be observed, that the carrying this suggestion into effect must depend on the encouragement it

shall receive from those who are able to give it birth, and to nurture it up to maturity the Magistrates, before they shall be able or desirous to proceed any further, wish to be assured of the approbation and concurrence of the County. The criterion by which they will feel themselves authorized to adopt ulterior measures will be the contributions (in form of Donations and annual Subscriptions) on which they may rely when the further progress of this undertaking shall make it necessary to call for the collection of them. If they who are disposed to promote a plan of much more than vital importance to many a wretched destitute, will have the goodness to stand forward, and specify the extent of their intended support to the Bankers at Warwick, Birmingham, Coventry, Atherstone, Nuneaton, Rugby; Tamworth, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Banbury, the return, which will appear at the next General Quarter Sessions will govern the future proceedings of the Magistrates, and empower them, it is hoped, to lay before the Subscribers and the Publick a digested Plan for perfecting the proposed measure, and carrying it into execution.

N. B. The Calendar at the last Spring Assizes contained 107 Prisoners, exclusive of such as were at large on Bail.

THOMAS HUNT, Clerk of the Peace. [Mr. Justice Dallas's very excellent Address shall appear in our next.]

Mr. URBAN, Harwich, Aug. 21.

shew the increase of National Schools established on Dr. Bell's System of Education, and the desire which evidently manifests itself throughout the kingdom, of instructing Children in the principles of our excellent Establishment, combined with the Cause itself, will, I am confident, be a sufficient apology for my troubling you with a very interesting account of the Meeting which took place at Thorpe le Soken, in this county, on the Anniversary of those Schools for the Deanry of Tendring, on the 9th inst. under the immediate patronage of the Lord Bishop of the Diocese; and which is transcribed from the Colchester Gazette of the 17th instant.-Allow me to add, that I had the gratification of being present; and the sight of nearly two thousand of these "tender plants" under the instruction of a religious education, the greater part of whom, probably, had it not been for these Schools, would have been brought up in ignorance and error, conveyed to my mind feelings which will not easily be effaced from my remembrance. That this laudable Institution may find friends and supporters to the remotest period of time, is the sincere wish of yours, &c.

RICH. R. BARNES.

"The most numerous and most interesting Meeting of the National Schools that has perhaps occurred since their establishment took place at Thorpe le Soken, in the county of Essex, on Friday the 9th inst. being the anniversary of the Schools of the Deanry of Tendring. Soon after nine o'clock in the morning, all the roads leading to Thorpe were thronged with children, some on foot, others in waggons, covered with boughs of trees, and decorated with flowers, most of them displaying colours, and approaching in their respective directions to the village. By half past ten nearly two thousand of these happy objects had assembled in the churchyard, and were ranked around it in the order of their respective

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schools. From thence they marched in a regular procession through the village, preceded by the band of the 69th regiment, playing a slow march, and by the Clergy, the stewards for the Meeting, and the friends and subscribers to the several schools, and accompanied by a larger concourse of people than has ever been assembled in that part of the country on any occasion. In returning to the church, the procession passed the Lord Bishop of London, to whose condescension and presence the country is chiefly indebted for the interest of the day, and a party of ladies and gentlemen, who were stationed in a room at the Bell Inn, and all of whom were highly gratified by the decency and deportment of the children, as well as by their healthy appearance, and dress. Indeed it would be invidious to say, that any one of the schools exceeded the other, in neatness of apparel, in propriety of manners, or in cleanliness of person-all was plainness-all simplicity in outward show, emblematic of that Christian piety and virtue, with which it is the design of these benevolent Institutions to adorn the inward mind. At the church, "Te Deum" was sung by the children of the Weeley school, and appropriate Psalms by the children of Harwich, Manningtree, and Thorpe. The sermon was preached by the Right Hon. and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of the Diocese; in which the blessings of an early instruction and education in Religious Truth-of early impressions of honour and honesty-of industry and virtue; were most forcibly and feelingly expressed. Indeed the whole tenour of the discourse bespoke not more the power of the understanding, than the benignity of the heart that had dictated it, and was received with that reverent attention, and general approbation, which it so justly merited. After service the children proceeded in regular order to the meadow before Thorpe-Hall, where a booth, decorated by the ladies of the neighbourhood with wreaths and garlands of flowers in a most tasteful manner, had been erected, forming three sides of a hexagon-the tables for the children forming the other three, and leaving a space of some acres in the centre for the spectators, and the military band. About three o'clock a company of ladies and

gentlemen, to the number of 330, sat down in the booth to a very suitable cold dinner; the Lord Bishop in the chair; and the children were regaled with cold plum-puddings, the meat which was removed from the table of the company, and half a pint of beer each. The numbers were so great, that it was difficult to provide for all with regularity and comfort; but the countenances of all evinced equally and uniformly the joys of the day, which the longest extension of life will not obliterate from the recollection. On drinking the health of the Lord Bishop of London, his Lordship declared, with evident sincerity, that he entered deeply and warmly into the spirit of the Meeting; and, in an address of some length, complimented the Deanry of Tendring, as he had previously in his Sermon, on being foremost in the race of Charity, in that unexampled emulation which a sense of the incalculable value of these Schools, in a temporal and spiritual view, to the rising generation, had excited throughout the land." His Lordship acknowledged, that temporal difficulties might require retrenchment in many private as well as public affairs; but the complexion of the Meeting gave him confidence that the Institutions which had this day so highly delighted every humane and virtuous heart, would never become the subject of a narrowed Charity; but that, under every state of the country, whether in prosperity or adversity, in peace or war, the same piety, the same true Christian feeling, which had founded them, would add, from year to year, to their support, and carry them down, increasing in blessings to the latest age. A song of gratitude, complimentary to his Lordship, was then sung by the children of Harwich;— Pope's Ode, "The Dying Christian," very beautifully by the children of Weeley; and the national air of "God Save the King," in which all present seemed to join as with one heart and one voice, concluded the pleasures of what all ranks acknowledge to have been a most happy and gratifying day. The number of persons present have been estimated at from eight to ten thousand-all testifying their love of Charity; and, whether Givers or Receivers, enjoying the fruits of it. In what nation can a parallel be found?

Mr.

whence they will no doubt spread over the whole country. Notwith

Mr. URBAN,

Sept. 5. some of

ON lately turning oves of the standing the prejudices which exist

Gentleman's Magazine, I was much pleased that they called to my recollection that its pages had on some occasions been devoted to the promotion of a practice which has for its object the rescue of numbers of friendless infants from torture, and misery, and death; I mean the practice of Mechanical Chimney-sweeping. I trust, Mr. Urban, you will think another page well devoted to the same subject, which has recently been brought into more general notice by the distressing detail of circumstances which took place at the late Old Bailey Sessions on the trial of a chimney-sweeper and his wife for the murder of one of these infants by cruel treatment; as well as by the examination which since took place at Hatton-garden Office, by which it appeared, that a child of about seven years of age had suffered in a most horrible manner, by being sent up a chimney on fire, for the purpose of extinguishing it.

It is worthy of observation, that, in both cases, as indeed in most others in which climbing-boys become victims, the evils arise out of the employment itself, and that they are not to be prevented but by the substitution of a Machine.

There is, Sir, I am persuaded, in the English Nation, a peculiar abhorrence of the needless infliction of

misery; therefore, by giving publicity to the melancholy consequences of such an employment, and to the means of avoiding it, we must be insuring success to the endeavours of those friends to humanity, who are now, as "The Committee of the Society for superseding climbing-boys," exerting themselves to bring into general use the adoption of the Machine, which, except in a few very crooked chimneys, completely answers the purpose of cleansing, and also of extinguishing fires in them.

To many of your Readers it may be information to tell them, that all they have to do in promoting this work of mercy is to direct their servants to apply to one of those Chimney-sweepers who use the Machine. They are to be found in most parts of London and its vicinity, from GENT. MAG. September, 1816.

among some of the master chimneysweepers, and many of our servants, the characteristics of the new plan are, equal efficacy and equal cleanli-` ness with the old plan, and the charge for sweeping is also the same.

By the insertion of this letter, Sir, in your widely-read publication, you will be instrumental in the cause of humanity, and very much oblige

A FRIEND, though no Committee-man, of the Society.

Mr. URBAN, M. Temple, Sept. 2. THE following extract from a Provincial Bookseller's Catalogue cannot fail of being interesting to many of your Readers. Yours, &c. CARADOC.

"The Compiler of this Catalogue having, with some industry, collected together all the different editions of the History of Quadrupeds and History of Birds, the early printed copies of which are of great rarity, a short account of them, drawn from various sources, may not be thought uninteresting.

The Art of Engraving on Wood was nearly coëval with that on Copper; and, for some time after it was invented, was practised by several of the most eminent Painters as an easy and expeditious method of multiplying copies of their works. Most of the earlier writers of Natural History embellished their works with figures from wood of plants and animals. Some of these did honour to the artist: but the greatest part of them were rude and inexpressive, and could boast of very little merit. The superior beauty and splendour of copper-plate engravings gradually obtained a decided preference, and, during the greater part of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, wooden-cuts were of little use but to embelish half-penny ballads and school-books.

It was reserved for Mr. Bewiek to revive and restore this nearly forgotten art, from the neglected state in which it had been so long suffered to continue. His particular turn of mind led him to observe and to delineate the form and manners of the Animal creation; and he soon found that the yielding consistence of wood is better fitted to express the ease, freedom, and spirit, which ought to characterise portraits of animated beings, than the stubborn sur

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face of a metallic substance. He accordingly engraved wooden blocks of all the domestic and most of the wild British Quadrupeds, and neglected no opportunity of drawing such foreign animals as were exhibited in the itinerant collections which visited Newcastle-uponTyne. These universally shew the hand of a master. There is in them a boldness of design, a correctness of outline, ap exactness of attitude, and a discrimination of general character, conveying, at the first glance, a just and lively idea of each different animal. But Mr. Bewick's merits as an artist extend far beyond the simple delineation of the animal. The landscapes, which he sometimes introduces as a back ground and relief to his principal figures, as well as the greater part of his numerous vignettes, have a similar excellence; and though the parts of which they consist are extremely minute, there is in them a truth and nature which admits of the strictest examination, and will be admired in proportion as they are more attentively observed and better understood.

The History of Quadrupeds, when completed, called forth the approbation and encouragement of the publick; which have been shewn in the sale of six large impressions. Thus deservedly encouraged, Mr. B. was induced to try whether the peculiar softness of woodengraving might not be applied with success in delineating the Feathered Tribes, and in his British Birds, the wood-cuts are found more peculiarly beautiful, expressing all the natural softness of Fur, Feather, and Foliage. The accuracy of Mr. B.'s drawings, and the life and spirit which he imparts to his Figures, are of unrivalled excellence.

The elegant editions of the Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell, and Somervile's Chase, with embellishments by Bewick, form, as it has been said by a warm admirer of his," the most extraordinary effort of the art of engraving upon wood that ever was produced in any age, or any country.'

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Mr. B. is at present engaged in engraving cuts for a new work, "The Fables of Æsop and others;" the work is far advanced,and will make its appearance next summer, and from the specimens which the writer of this has seen,

will add greatly to Mr. B.'s well-earned reputation; the designs for a work of this description giving full scope to his fruitful imagination.

In respect to the labours of this ingenious man, we may adopt an old monkish rhyme to mark his fondness for his profession:

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Sept. 80. OUR Correspondent, p. 123, is pleased to say, that my former assertion "that the Registry Bill would effectually check Slaves being smuggled, is not entitled to the smallest attention until I prove, what is incumbent on me to prove, that smuggling has in fact taken place." I could not have anticipated such a question, at least from any one who has considered this subject-for it is well known, that, although all the nations of Europe having concern in the West Indies, except two, have abolished the Slave Trade-yet it is as well known that one of those two, the Portuguese, still carry it on, and chiefly in selling Slaves by smuggling them into the Colonies of the States who have resolved the Abolitionthat the reason of the Colonial ob jections to the Registry arises from their argument, that smuggling is necessary to their existence, and that some of the Plantations were abandoned in consequence of the Abolition Laws. If S. D. D, would have a particular statement of the parties who are guilty of this nefarious practice, in violation of the Laws of their Mother Country, he would lay the spare of prosecution under the cover of argument.

Assuredly the Bill has been misrepresented, and therefore misconceived, in more ways than as relates to smuggling. It was certainly misconceived at Barbadoes; and the disorder which that misconception among the Negroes produced, is an alarmiing argument since raised against it. Our Legislature could never mean that a Registry of Slaves should cause a general massacre of their masters, whatever might be the feeling of persons forced into a situation of oppression unworthy of the English

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