even for the post of a foreign ambassador. She will teach him his catechism, either in the Roman Catholic way, or in that of the FRENCH Esprits Forts. If matters not in which of the two, he have it. In the one, the self contradictions of absurd superstition; in the other, those of atheism; will duly prepare him for that latitude of belief, and for those easy morals, which are, alone, becoming for an English gentleman. The FRENCH GOVERNESS will be useful to give him various other lessons, which it is unlikely that he should have from any English person, not of French education, whom you might place about him.-She will, indirectly, teach him to fib dexterously, with the air and confidence of truth. She will fire him with more of self-conceit than his mind could be otherwise inflamed to, at this puerile age. She will initiate him in that gallantry which is ever the first thing to make a child think like a man: and, as your boy is a destined M. P. you cannot, too soon, make a little man of him She will ९ teach him, also, to make a grand show with whatever little knowledge he may have got. And you will not deny, that it is, to the full, as great a merit to seem to the world a wise man, at a small expense of real wisdom, as to live in splendour and magnificence, with a very frugal consumption of money. Should you, by some extraordinary ill luck, be unable to procure such a FRENCH GOVERNESS as I recommend; you may find your purpose nearly as well answered, if you send your boy to one of those FRENCH SEMINARIES in the environs of London, where little communities of unmarried Frenchmen and French-women live together in all the CHASTE and FOND ENDEARMENTS for which French manners are so peculiarly distinguished; join a little seminary of boys to a contiguous seminary of girls; and, with exemplary diligence, thus discipline the future manhood and matrons of England, in that knowledge, that religion, those morals, that sense of cleanliness, and those manners, which must be becoming in the people of this country, when they shall be the subjects of France. Or, should you not find it convenient to place your child to your mind, in one of these hot-beds; I think you might even send him to any one of the trading English boarding-schools in the vicinity of London. He may, there, learn to read, without catching any early smack of pedantry. He will not be likely to contract any unseasonable enthusiasm for bookishness. His mind will not be over-impregnated with principles of morality or religion. He will be turned adrift among boys older than himself, among whom he may quickly acquire almost all the hardihood, the boldness, the artifices, the superiority to shame, and the precocity of vicious experience, which distinquish E--n and Wr. To E Public Schools. or W the stripling must at length be sent. The adventure is hazardous, but unavoidable. I am far from wishing to be understood, as directing you to send him there, to have his head stuffed with Greek and Latin, or to acquire the sheepishness and the awkward pedantry of a classical scholar. The common opinion of that which constitutes the fitness of sending boys to either of these great seminaries, is perfectly correct. They go-to gain connexions which may be of use to their interests in future life,-to learn the morals and manners of those boys who are to be, afterwards, the first men in their coun+ try, if possible, to distinguish themselves as leaders in the sports, pleasures, wild mischief, and premature dissipation of their school-fellows certainly, for no other purpose that can deserve a moment's thought. There is "a noble way" to classical fame at those se minaries: the aid of a tutor, the kindness of a master, the boldness of the boy himself, may crown him with the fame of being a good scholar, without subjecting him to any dull toil over his tasks. Let your son be taught to keep steadily in view, the ends for which he is sent to this great seminary at which you fix him. Supply his pockets freely with money. Let him think only of the approbation of his schoolfellows; let him have spirit to despise the milksops who do not scorn that of the masters. Let him aspire to be the first at quizzing an awkward stranger,a sober, bookish boy---if such should hap→ pen to be among the crowd, a tutor too con+ scientiously troublesome to his pupil,-or a master who is foolish enough to supppose that boys of spirit ought to be ashamed of any pranks of which they can be guilty. Let him have address to escape the toils and miseries of a fag, while he is in that condition, himself: and, let him have the vigour to deem no hardship too severe to be imposed on the smaller boy that becomes his own fag, and has not the cunning to elude the severity of his commands by outwitting and deceiving him. Let him, if possible, be the first cricket player, the readiest to play the truant for the sake of joining in a fox-chase, the boldest swimmer, the readiest to rob an orchard or storm a hen-roost, the most daring leader in |