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INTELLIGENCE.
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The Marquis Dk Fontanes , Peer of France , member of V Academie Frangaise , died on the 17 th of March , at seven o ' clock in the morning . He was born at Niort in 1761 . His principal works are , UEssai sur F Homrne , de Pope , ( this translation he first published at the age
of one-and-twenty , and he put out a subsequent edition two days before his death ;) La Journie des Morts ; Fragments of Lucretius ; the poem Du Verger ¦ , one of his best productions ; an epistle Sur I'Edit de Louis XVI . en Faveur des non-cat holiques . During the Revolution
he was concerned in a journal called Le Mod 4 rateury and afterwards , in connexion with La Harpe and Vauxcelles , in the Memorial ; and at a later period he was one of the editors of the Mcrcure . Among his prose works may be mentioned his Eloge fwd&bre de Washington et Un Fragment de V Histoire de Louis X / ., read at
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DOMESTIC . Mr . Brougham ' s Education Bill . Resolutions of the East-London Auxiliary Sunday-school Union . At a General Meeting of the gratuitous teachers and friends of Sunday-schools , specially convened , on the 7 th of March
1821 , for the purpose of considering and discussing the probable effect which Mr . Brougham ' s proposed Bill " for better providing the Means of Education for his Majesty ' s Subjects , " if passed into a law , will have upon Sunday-schools , it was
Resolved unanimously—That this meeting , fully sensible of the va ^ t importance of general education in the United Kingdom , and every other country in the world , would hail with delight any plan which , having justice for its foundation , and ensuring competent instruction in its operation , would tend to promote the universal welfare and happiness of mankind .
That , while this meetirig are decidedly favourable to universal education on liberal principles , they declare , with extreme regret and disappointment , that Mr . Brougham ' s proposed Bill appears to them to be a measure most unjust in its principle , and likely to prove , in its operation , highly injurious to the cause of Simday-schoois , i'hat this meeting declare themselves
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the Institute in 1796 . M , de Fontanes has left several unpublished productions , some of which are—a volume of Odes , a poem , nearly finished , entitled , La Grice Suave e and Memoirs respecting his own times .
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They write from Lausanne that the Academy of that town has just lost M . J . Louis Bridel , Professor of Oriental Languages , who had undertaken the arduous task of a New Translation of the Old and New Testament , of which he gave , by way of specimen , in 1818 , The Book of Joby in 8 vo . published by Didot , at Paris . ( See Man . Repos . XIV . 423 , 424 . ) He made free use in this work ot ' the modern German commentators .
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Lately , at Hanover , A . Herschell , Esq ., well known in the musical world as a profound and elegant musician , and brother to Sir W . Herschell , the celebrated astronomer .
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to be the decided friends of Sunday-school instruction , and therefore earnestly protest against the Bill , and entirely disapprove of it as at present proposed . 1 st . Because the proposed enactments of the Bill are in direct opposition to the report delivered , and the opinions expressed by Mr . Brougham in the House
of Commons , when he presented that highly interesting body of evidence on the subject of education which was given before the Select Committee , and in which evidence it appears , that by far the greater proportion of children educated in the charitable institutions of this country , are taught in Sunday-schools .
2 d . Because the proposed Bill is framed for the evident purpose of collecting together , in parochial schools , all the children of the poor , and requires them to attend the public worship of the Church of England on the Sabbath-days , which , if accomplished , must ultimately destroy the beneficial system of Sunday-school instruction altogether .
3 d . Because the Bill substitutes hired masters to instruct the great bulk of poor children , instead of gratuitous teachers , and those masters are to be allowed the privilege of taking other scholars to educate on their own account ; and , under these circumstances , reason , observation and past experience evidence , that aithough the scholars may be trained up with prejudice * in favour of the Church
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Intellrgence . * " -BrQu&ham ' s Education BiU . 315
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knowledge * All the inheritance which he has bequeathed his family is the high estimation in which his name is held .
Intelligence.
INTELLIGENCE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/59/
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