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The YANKEE--PHILOSOPHER, No. 3. FEMALE EDUCATION. WHEN the philosopher views the degeneracy of the age in moral virtues, with a glowing heart he flits for refuge to the arms of t’ e fairer sex. Though a bandoned characters are to be found throughout the world in each, yet collectively the females arc by far the better half; indeed society has placed no medium in theii cha racter, and to be respeCted they must be truly virtuous. In young men a thousand weaknesses and foibles are over looked, or miserably changed to some manly virtue, while, in the other sex, the smallest blemish is magnifies to the corruption of the whole piece: I bey seem aware of this, and we generally see.them “possessing few faults or few virtues. The female who abandons herself to guilt and infamy is of all characters the most disgusting; soci ety has reared an insurmountable barrier between her and the virtuous; oil and vinegar have more sympathy for each other than the amiable and the abandoned woman. This idea forcibly struck me, the other day, on observing one of our most resjte&ed citizens cordially offer his hand, in the public street, to a man whom I considered the most despicable in the citv. Why, said I to myself, should not the amiable female treat the common prostitute with the same distant politeness? Her crimes cannot be greater than this man’s. Is it imperiousness in the haughty fair one that she thus spurns from her her fallen sister? No, it cannot be, that palpitating heart for others woes never felt such a sensation. Is it a respeCt she owes herself, and the danger of being contaminated? Never, it would be greatest insult to her understanding. Is it the dread of offending societt|that she withholds her hand of relief, and voice of admOTtion? I have it—-yes, it assuredly is. Thus musing for nearly an hour, in tracing this simple consequence to its cause, I was naturally led to the con sideration of the effeCt education has on the female cha racter, together with the unnatural expectations of the other sex. ’Tis education alone which forms the human mind to every thing that is noble and praiseworthy, arranges our thoughts and polishes our manners, brings latent virtues into aClion. animates the dying genius, and, like the sun in its meridian, which dispels the noxious vapors accumu lated through the night in southern- climates, dispels in the heart of man every evil propensity, puts into motion qualities unknown before, and welcomes reason to her glorious throne, converts the vicious, reconciles the good, destroys contentions, and represents our duty in its pro per light and character, bids us beware of the specious paths of effeminacy, and leads the road to Heaven’s pecu liar attention. If these are the advantages of education, how much abused is the fair part of our community? They are expected to be the patterns of virtue and archetypes of perfection; to them we look for refined sentiments* cor rectness, propriety of conduCt, and elevation of mind, and yet we deny them their only proper guide, education. Strange and inhuman contradiction! Has the Deity, O man, been partial to thy sex? Say not yes, but, if thou shoiil Ist, deny at once to the other the rank she at pre sent holds; write the Turkish creed deep in your breast, and prove it in your actions. Should milder opponents admit her nature equal, but to different laws her moral duty is sublet!; that a mother’s care, domestic duties, &C. require her whole attention; I would reply: Ere maternal duties argue at her hands, ere the fond wife must in her adion move, is the time for study and improvement. Plain observation will convince us that the merchant’s apprentice, or the farmer’s son, has ever had less leisure for recreation and study than any class of females. Hours idly spent are always spent in vain, and years of hours are passed by blooming females at their glasses, unnoticed by themselves or their parents at the time, yet, when the retrospective eye of riper years surveys our youth’s light condud, it is with grief we view our tine mifpent, and sigh to live again. Thus then we have found that the female can devote to study as much time as man; of course we have to shew if her moral charader is or is not bettered by it; y The present regulations of society, as well as the im mutable laws of nature, have immediately placed the care and instruction of children, at least for the first four or five years, under the direction of their several mothers. The first ideas with which the young mind is imjjtessed are almost indelible, and seldom has it been in the power of riper years, assisted with every advantage, to eradicate prejudices imprinted on our tenderer minds. The illiterate mother, though possessed of the same af fedionate tenderness for her child with the learned one, from not forming any regular system of condud towards it, must necessarily fill its young mind with a confused olio of error, absurdity, and contradiction. The poor child, after becoming a bad boy, at three or four years old, is sent to a schoolmistress, with this injunction from its mother, “ Spare not the rod until the child be broken of its bad tricks/’ The schoolmistress is generally as ig norant, and mere influenced by her passions, than even the mother; the poor little innocent has then only fallen from the “ fryingpan into the fire”—a hopeless situation indeed, but, alas, must remain burning there until old en ough to be sent to a master. The time for his departure arrives; the master receives him, but with a mind humili ated and debased, cankered with enmity and revenge for the treatment it has received. The master may do his best, he may be a good one, but it is all in vain, the man is lost! and, though the understanding still be capable of some improvement, the mind is so perverted that that very improvement is a misfortune; lie becomes a thief, a liar, and a villain, and the little learning he may have acquired only qualifies him the better to deceive and carry into ef fect |m nefarious purposes! Pity-the ignorant'mo.ther, when you see her at the foot of the gallows praying to God for mercy oilhtf Unfortunate child!! Here let us change the shocking scene, and, on the other hand, beheld the learned mother convincing her child’s understanding of the propriety of her conduCt towards it; conciliating its affection and confidence, from a complete government of Iter own passions; carefully presenting such objects, in regular rotation, to its view, as its growing mind is capable of conceiving; never forcing its asstent even tp an axiom until it perceives for itself; unprejudiced in favor of any thing; it than is governed by evidence, and, from the example before it, is willingly led into the flow ery path of virtue. As its young mind matures, thus qua lified, what a spacious field for improvement!"study becomes pleading, and every new idea but excites farther emulation, implicit confidence is placed in its fond mother, and, when the time arrives that its unfortunate coteifiporary is cast over ■rib thfe scljocdfnistress, it still remains with its parents, the h proper guardians of its infancy, its natural projectors —a happy circumstance indeed fpr the child, a pleasing task indeed for its parents. Thus educated", thus brought up, pure as Heaven’s own influence must be its every thought, its every action virtuous, and its certain reward an unin terrupted scene of happiness. Again, where is the husb and whopwould not in his wife prefer a rational companion, one whose bosom may be the repository of all his cares and troubles’, his pleasures and his joys; one in whose opinion • he can confide, whose good sense may relieve his mind of many doubts and perplexities, with whom he can Gomrau nicate, to whom he can open his heart? I say, where is the man who would not prefer this cbara&er to the menial whose only abilities extend to the making of a pudding, the arrangement of flower pots, and a complete knowledge of the use of brush and broom, whose only topics of con versation are caps, gowns, and feathers, whose complex ideas are alone the harmony of ribbons, and whose read ing, if they read at all, romances and love letters? I pre sume no enlightened man would hesitate in his choice. While the rising sun tinges the curtains of their bed with gold, how exquisitely charmiqg must be the converse of this enlightened couple? what chaste ideas must they not possess? if envy harbored breasts above angels might envy them. I have no words to pursue the delightful climax, and conclude with seriously offering what I have said to the consideration of the fair sex of Georgia. Youth is the time the sciences are taught, The only time that knowledge can lie sought, The precious time—and often, to our cost, If misappli’d, is more than doubly lost— Lost for the present, for the time to come, • And years succeeding meet their haoless doom. A YANKEE PHILOSOPHER, MILAN, June 12. WE learn from Medina that a Swedish frigate ar rived there towards the end of lafl month with a Tripolitan chebec, which file captured after a defpe/ate engagement against four vessels of that nation, two of which were funk. The Swedish frigate, it is laid, had above 100 killed or wounded. Naples, July 9. Charles Emanuel the fourth, king of Sardinia, furring'by an in liniment, dated at P-ome the 4th of this month, resigned his crown and dominions in favor of his brother the duke De Aoft, his royal higimefs has acceded to the crown under the name of Victor JE manuel. Paris, June 25. Dr. Hager, who is now employed here in the compilation of a Chintfe dictionary, i v -.s re ceived, as a present from the emperor of Ruflia, an elegant diamond ring of the moft exquHite-workm mfliip. Os 40,000 votes in the Haute Loire 38,000 have voted for Bonaparte being canful for life; there were only four votes against the measure. The firft couful has announced to nearly the whole of the clergy, that he did not understand any pritft would refufe to administer the sacrament of marriage to persons who fhonlJ present themselves for that parpofe after having been divorced. July 7. The earthquake which was felt more or less in different parts of Europe on the 12th of last May almost destroyed the city of Grema, in Upper Italy; Sen fino also fuffered very much at the fame time, and has net as yet recovered from the dreadful effects of the calamity. The town of Manguin was entirely “fwailoived up, and an immenle lake instantaneously appeared on the site on which it flood. Three churches and 12 houses are deino liflied at Brefcia; the conviilfion, in fine, was severely felt in many pans of Switzerland, and even in Daimffadt, near the Nidda. The epidemic fever which has long raged at and in the environs of Brussels continues with unabated violence; feme of the firft members of the faculty are of opinion that it is attended with peftilentral symptoms, and that it cannot be clalfed among the diseases hitherto known. Many hundreds have already been carried off by this dreadful calamity. London, June 29. His Majesty’s mod gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, on Monday the 28th June, 1802. My Lords and Gentlemen, , The public business being concluded I think it proper to close this session of parliament. During r long and laborious attendance you have inva riably manifested the just sense you entertain of the great trust committed to your charge. The objects of your deli berations have been unusually numerous and important, and I derive the utmost satisfaction from the conviction that the wisdom of your proceedings will be folly proved by their effefts in promoting the best interests of my people through out every part of my dominions. Gentlemen of the House of Commons, The ample provision you have made for the various branches of the public serviefc demands my warmest ac knowledgments, and my particular thanks are due for the liberality which you have shewn in exonerating my civil government and household from the debts with which they were unavoidably burthened. Whilst I regret the amount of the supplies which cir cumstances have rendered necessary it is a relief to me to contemplate the state of our manufactures, commerce, and revenue, which afford the most decisive and gratifying proofs of the abundance of our internal resources, and of the growing prosperity of the country. My Lords and Gentlemen, As I think it expedient that the election of anew par liament should take place without delay, it is my intention forthwith to give directions for dissolving the present and for calling anew parliament. In communicating to you this intention I cannot sup press tho.-e sentiments of entire approbation with which I reflect upon every part of your conduit sjnee I first met you iit this place. The unexampled difficulties of our si tuation required the utmost efforts of that wisdom ands titude which you so- eminently displayed in contend"’ With, them, “and by which they have been so happily mounted. From your judicious and salutary ‘mri during the last year myi people derived ali tlie relief whA could be afforded under one of the severest dispensati^ 1 - of Providence; and ic was,by the spirit and determinat’** which uniformly animated your councils, aided by 7 unprecedented exertions of my fleets and j zealous and cordial co-operation of nlv people, that I • enabled, to prosecute with success, and terminate v*A honor, the long and arduous contest in which we hav been engaged. The same sense of public duty, the same solicitude f or the welfare of your country, will now induce you, i n vc individual characters, to encourage, by all the means ’ your power, the cultivation and improvement of the 7 vantages of peace. \ • My endeavors will never be wanting to preserve the bless". igs by which we are so eminently distinguished and to prove that the prosperity and happiness of all classes of my faithful subjects are the objects which are always the nearest to my heart. Then the Lord Chancellor, by his majesty's command said, * * My Lords and Gentlemen, It is his majesty’s royal will and pleasure that this par liament be prorogued to Tuesday the 17th day of AuL; next, to be then holdeu; and this’parliament is according prorogued to Tuesday the 17th day of August next. 6 ” BY THE KING. A Proclamation fgr dissolving the present Parliament and declaring toe calling of another. George R. \V hereas we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our privy council, to dissolve this present parliament which now stands prorogued to Tuesday the 17th day of August next, Wo do, for-that end, publish this our royal proclamation, aud do hereby dissolve the said parliament accordingly; and the lords spiritual and temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burgesses, and the coramissioneo for shires and burghs, 0! the house of commons, are dis* charged from their meeting and attendance on Tuesda? the said 17th day of August next. And we being desir-’ 011 sand resolved, as soon as may be, to meet our people, and to have their advice in parliament, do hereby make known to all our loving subjects our royal will and pleas ure to call anew parliament; and do hereby further declare, that, with the advice of our privy council, we have given orocr shat our chancellor of that part of our united king dom called Great Britain, and our chancellor of Irelani, do respectively , upon notice thereof, forthwith issue on; writs, m due lorm and according to law, for calling a nw parliament; and we do hereby also, by this our roval pro claroauoh, under our great seal of our united kingdom, require writs forthwith to be issued accordingly, by out said chancellors respectively, for causing the lords spiritual anu temporal, and commons, who are to serve in our said parliament, to be duly returned to and give their attend ance. in our said parliament; which writs are to be return able on Tuesday the 31st day of August next. Given at our court at Windsor, the 29th day of June, 1802, and in the 42d year of our reign, GOI) SAVE THE KING. July 4. The Algerines have font a fleet of 22 fail 0? fliips of war to lea, amongst which are ieveral large fri gates. July 5. Sir John Borlafe Warren, K- B. is appointed Britilh ambassador to the court of St. Peterlburgh, and will let off on his embalfy the firft week in Augult. July 12. Grain is diminilhing in price in several of the aepartments of France. At Paris, however, it is dill extremely dear. Signora Bauti has a Iked the .managers of the opera home 2500!. to ling in breeches; while Ihe lung without breecks Ihe was fatisfied with r 200!. The emperor of Rullia and queen of Pruflia left Memel on the i6tn of June. Nothing has tranipiitd upon the fubjedt of the conferences between the two monarchs. Among other reports in Paris it is said an internal ma chine has been difeovered under a little bridge overvhici : the chief con, till passes in his way to Mai in ai ion. Greenock, July 7. The following is an extract cf 1 letter from a merchant in Glasgow to his friends in Edin burgh: “ Never were our manutaftories i'o flourilhmg as since the preliminaries were ligned. Upward, of people have come to fettle here since the beginning of L tober; the building was never so brilk, yet not an empty house in town, and many families cooped up in a ling e room. Our new demands are chiefly from Spain, -al), &c. The American trade no person chooses to touch nov , having scarce any other market left us before it has quite overflocked. Above three millions worth 01 L'g 1 ■ goods were in the city of New York alone when accounts of the peace arrived there, and they have been fining j® I pei cent, below prime coll, which has occalioned a g r£St number of bankruptcies.” BOSTON, Augiift i o. . 1 THROUGH the politeness of capt. Wood, arrive here on Saturday last from Liverpool, we hav favored with London papers to the 17th of July, though manv days later tlian previotjflv received ,rom t quarter, surmise nothing of a very interesting nature- The election for metnbers.cf parliament has 001 7 in various parts of England and Scotland. Mr. E° x . all appearances will be returned member for V. Mr. Windham has left his election at Norwich* Gai'coyne and Tarleton are chosen for Liverpool “ ir right lipn. Henry Dundas lor Edinburgh. The London paper cf July 17th lays, a more of fine weather only are wanting to endure an - ant harvefl. To u IT.unt Lou vert me has arrived at Brefi. _ Our letters from Liverpool furnilh very te'ora counts of the state of the markets, with a profpeC continuing tr> appreciate. T his circuinftance la , t 0 , . . .. j. to tire expectation of an immediate treaty 0 1 with France. . ffl r. Ncvj Tork, Augujl 24. On Sunday r,l y i:l , QuackeubolVs big dog got loose; he ran