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SATURD AY, November 8, 17884 GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE O R INDEPENDENT REGISTER. FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRI A L bj- JURY, to remain inviolate forever. Cmflitutim of Coorgia. AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State; Essays, Articles of lnt eUi. genet, Advertisements, &c. will be gratefully received, and every kind of Printingferfermed. To Dodtor Guess. Valenttor omni ratione amor Fatria;. Ovid. YOUR tea table query, put a few evenings ago, with so much irony, you will here find answered, whilst I gratify the with of a more polite querift. “ What does Neotomi mean by this national education which he talks Jo much about ?” exclaimed the Doc tor. “ I'wifli I knew, (replied a Lady who was present) and if it was a practicable one, and the advantages arising from it were so profitable to our children and country, as he promises, George and Robert fliould receive if* In order to answer you fully, Doftor, I ihould want more room than I find within the compass ot- a news-paper ; but through obedience to you, Madam, I will offer a plan which I apprehend in some degree suitable to the undertaking : Men better acquainted than myfelf with the local situation of this coun try, may gather and polilh them, and, per haps, obtain more than is expc&cd from my rough iketch. You certainlygrant, Doftor, that the wealth of this state is in proportion to the number of her citizens, and you cannot deny hut her Jlrength lies in their manners and virtues. My plan of education muff then be, to pro mote the wealth and Jlrength of the republic; otherwise it ought to be confidcred a mere chimera. Since the citizens are the wealth of the Hate, it follows that her natural and ucceffa ry ambition fliould Le toincreafethem. Since th s Jlrength of the hate lies in the manneis and virtues of her citizens, her inteiefls ie ouire she should have the charge of their edu cation, in order that those manners and vir tues might be taught according to her views. Let us fee now, how that care might be ex etcifed by the flare to effeif that purpose. It is by a general tax, levied in proportion to the property of each citizen, and not in proportion to the number of their children, I would wish to raise the edifice which I propose. There should be one college only in each county, where children fliould be fed and taught;—their parents fhouid clothe them ac cording to the rules determined upon. In each college their studies fliould be as little complicated as poflible, and the tutor entirely divtfied of that pedantry which is almost al ways inseparably connefted with the charac ter. Men employed in that fiation Ihould receive as much refpeft and attention as their talk is toilfometo them and interesting to the lepublic : They fliould be ranked among her officers, and those who have fulfilled their duty a number of years, with general fatis iaftion, Ihould Le promoted to public offices, more lucrative and less laborious. -At eight years old a Georgian fliould go to Rurke-county-college to learn to lead and write: At niue years old to Richmond to learn his own tongue grammatically, and there read thehiflory of his country. There fliould not be a notable action nor a great character hut he fliould become perfeftly acquainted with by literary information, and of which he could give an accurate detail or portrait. At teu years old he should go to Wilkes coun ty, read ancient Lift cry and learn arithmetic ; THE At eleven to Walhington, read modern hif tory, and go through an elementary course of mathematics: At twelve to Greene, and there go through a courlc of geography, and read the Commentaries of Caalar : At th r teen to Franklin, to learn the Fiench tongue and attend to the fludy of rhetoric: At four teen to Effingham,—fludy Spanilh and go through a course of logic : At fifteen to Li berty, increase his knowledge in the afore mentioned languages 'and feieuees, and fludy military tallies and fortifications At fixieeu to Camden, to go through an elementary course of natural philosophy, and read cccie fiaftical hiflory that of all the doctrines re ceived throughout the known world ; the hif tory of their origin, their progress or down fall, and their relations with the different go vernments where they exist. At sixteen years old to Chatham, to fludy the laws and the conflitution of his own country; her trade, her productions, and that of ail the nations with which flie is, or may be connected. In ail those colleges there should be a gym nasium, or place cf corporal exercifcs for the fludeurs. This article so neglected aimolt every where, is, in my opinion, cue of the most important parts of republican education ; not only to form strong constitutions, but con sidered as a moral object; and which is alto gether neglected or difeharged by some pedant who is inadequate to the talk, “ Good education (fays an author) ougiit to be negative ; for, wherever you have prevented vices to arile, you may refl allured that there, virtue wiil spring up.” At eighteen years old, my pupils will draw near the end of their education : They will know by theory the whole worid, and give a well founded preference to their native foil, which they will Le thoroughly acquainted with. There will Le no liver, no road, no crcck, but they wiil have seen or crolled : Every citizen will know and love one another, and the cement of eaiiy fjiendfliip (than which there is none stronger) will bind each rising generation. Itfow my pupils will Le men, and may return to their parents, there to begin the duty of citizens : I am much fur priicd if they are not good ones ; if this edu cation has not given to their fouls that nation al sentiment which guides their fancy and opi nions into luch a channel that they have com menced patiiots by inclination, by pafiion, by necefiity. I am greatly miflaken if such a fyliem would not produce in citizens that re fpedt for the laws of their country, and that love for their liberty, without which ihey will never enjoy the moil free conflitution; wi bout which however wife, however prudent the law's may be, they will ever be eluded and in efficient. And, DodW, lam inclined to think, that such lchouls would produce the moil patiiotic citizens. I am confident, Madam, that if you should ever receive George and Robe; t from such a courle of education, they will afford you the higbefl fatisfatlion, and you will promise yourfelf new enjoyments upon the return of their younger brother from the fame pursuits. “It is laudable aud merito rious (fays an illuflrioua man) to give child ren to one’s country; but it is generous, grand and glorious, to give her patriots.” I wiih, Doctor, you had put it in my power to have answered your criticiftn, as well as your query; as I be.ievc it altogether confided in a laugh, I should certainly be laughed at to add another word, but NEOCOMI. K^XX^XKKSXSX^ PARIS, July 3. THE affairs of this country become every day more alarming. The flame not only spreads, but what is worse, seems approach* ing nearer the capital. The parliament of Rouen, which at lirft appeared to acquiesce under the la e ordinances, have at length taken a decided part with the opposition. In their lad lefoiutions; they have not only as serted the rights of parliament, but have gone so far as to accuse the two leading miniflers as traitoi s to their King and country, and to demand that they fliould be brought to public justice. The coufequence in, that letters were difpatcbed for fending all the members of that parliament into exile. July 7. A bed of justice is talked of on the 10th inst. It will be held at Verfaillcs, and the total d'lfolution of the present parliament is determined upon, with other material re* gulations. VVe learn by a ftiip arrived at Bred from Goree, that while the Amiable Louisa, Capt. Dote, fiom Havre, was lying at anchor, the £thof April last, in the Road of Albreda, in the river Gambia, where the French have a fa dory, the blacks to the number of 114 rose, killed three white men, and oblige 1 the rest of the crew to abandon the fliip, and take refuse on board the Marie Vidorie, Capt. Girant, from Bourdeaux, who fired on the other ships to oblige the blacks to leave the pot t; but they being protetfed by the inhabitants of Albreda and its environs, about 100 of whom went on board, an engagement was maintained between the two fliips foe thtee hours, when the inhabitants of Albreda carried off all the slaves with them from the Louisa, except five who were wounded, and plundered the fliip. However, the officers, aftifted by a boat from the Marie, who had one man killed, got possession of the Louisa again. The Captains, for fear they fliould again be aflaulted, and to preserve the fliips, bore away for Goree, where they arrived. Capt. Dore would not advise any veflel to go to that part of the coast, the King of Bar having declared that he will feiz all the French fliips which come there; and is able, he adds, to take every fliip that has no guns. "h A G U E, July 3. The guarantee of the Constitution of the Republic, with that of the dignity of heredi* taiy Stadtholder annexed to it, was formally rat.fied by all the provinces at the aflembly of their High Mightinefles, last Friday. FRANKFORT, June 12. We are assured that a coufiderable body of Turks have entered the Bannar, and burnt many villages. According to some papers, the Foies on the frontiers have quitted the French dress foe that of their own country, the Turks having declared that if they enter the territory of the Republic they will hurt no one clothed in tbe Poliih manner. LVol. ill. iNo.UXi.j