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    furnished to each subscriber by the accurate and indefatigable treasurer for the York Institution ) had no distinct idea of the object for which they were subscribing , and ,

    therefore , becomiug weary of their subscription , were willing to lay hold of any pretence for dropping it , various expedients were resorted to by the trustees . In 1762 , Mr , Seddon was commissioned to visit

    London , Bristol , Birmingham , and other places , in order to ascertain , by a personal application , how far the annual subscriptions were to be depended upon , and to endeavour to obtain new ones . This

    produced a temporary revival ; but the regular , annual mode of distinct information of particulars Continuing to be still neglected , the revival was only temporary . Another expedient was , to devise

    a means of increasing the number of students , particularly of laystudents , by accommodating those parents who injudiciously wished their children to resort to a place of education extremely unfit for them at so very early an age . For

    this purpose they tried the experiment , for a few years , of taking boys , under the age of fourteen , to be placed under the care of Mr . Benjamin Stapp , a divinity student of extraordinary promise ; who , under the titJe of sub-tutor , was to train them in the Latin and

    Greek languages , and prepare them for tbe higher classes . They were also to be attended by a teacher of writing and arithmetic ( a person of reputation in this line had , indeed , from the first , been

    engaged to attend [ or the accommodation of those young gentlemen who were intended for business ) . But after the experience of two Or three years it was found , that

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    the provision of a grammar-school for the elements of the learned languages had not been attended with the advantages expected . The discipline of a school and an

    academy , —that which must be exercised over mere boys , which , however founded upon the most ingenuous principles , must necessarily be , in a great degree , mechanical , — -and that which is suited to the condition of more

    advanced youth , who , being arrived at a capacity of judging for themselves , are capable of understanding , and being regulated by , a system of rational and liberal restraint , —were found so incompatible , that this whole scheme was

    discontinued ; and , in lieu of it , an attempt was made to provide further inducements to the parents of such young laymen as the insti - tution originally contemplated , to

    send their sons to Warrington , by the appointment of a distinct professorship , to be held by a foreign gentleman , who should have the charge of teaching the principal modern languages .

    In pursuance of this design , the trustees , on Dr . Priestley ' s leaving them , engaged Mr . John Reinhold Forater , a German scholar and turalist of considerable eminence , *

    * Of this eminent person a very full account is given in the 4 th v . of Aikin ' s General Biography , from which it appears , that he was born at Dirschaw on the 22 d Dec . 17 * 9 , that after surmount * ing various obstacles , he attained con * siderable eminence in literature , studied theology , became a minister ;

    but , having a strong penchant for some more general literary engagement , accepted an invitation 10 Russia ; was disappointed ( perhaps disappointed those who sent for him ) , was tossed about , and at last came into England on speculation , in 1766 : his first engagement was at Warrington , where hi *

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    188 Historical Account of the Warrington Academy .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 288, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/4/