any school-insurrection that shall threaten the authority of the masters. Let him make himself the first in every bold mischief that belongs properly to rude school-boys; and the first in every anticipated vice or amusement of premature manhood. Let him only shew parts in this way; and throw his fellows behind him. Ask no more.-He will, infal libly, become the ornament of the senate; the very oracle of the cabinet.-Some wiseacre parent may, perhaps, judge otherwise; and ask for more pedant and sheepish qualificaations. But the test is easy. By what qualities were the E and W

years of the LAST GREAT PARTY-LEADER and STATESMAN that died in office, distinguished? Was he not the foremost in every mischievous and expensive adventure? Was there a spirited vice or folly of manhood into which he did not, while at W or E-, prematurely plunge? Did he not attach his schoolfellows to himself for life, chiefly by having been their ringleader in boyish dissipation?— These are the studies and exercises of educa

tion which teach a knowledge of the human heart, and invest one with the power to overawe or captivate it. The future business of the Senate will differ from the sports,-only in the apparent magnitude of the objects,not at all, in keenness and duplicity of intrigue, in the play of passions, in the earnestness with which the different interests are prized by the heart, in the ambition, emulation, or strife which arise upon them.

Declamation.

When the hopeful youth visits you, at the seasons of recess, you must not fail to give him, proper supplementary lessons. To inspire him with forwardness and self-confidence must still be your principal object. Set him to declaim upon any subject in human affairs; according to the method that succeeded so well towards wards making a parliamentary orator of the famous PHILIP Duke of WHARTON. Allow him, as Lord H did with C

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F-, to rummage, tear, and burn your most important papers at pleasure. Or, as the great Earl of C is reported to have done for his illustrious second son, accustom your intended legislator to dispute with you, and speechify to you, with the same spirit, as if he were, himself, already, the preceptor, and you but his humble pupil.

Private Theatres.

Sometimes, you may introduce him to make one among a party of gentlemen and lady performers of private plays. It is well known what wonderful powers for senatorial eloquence T*** Sh***d*n, and Mr. Sk*ff**n, and Mr. Gr*v**1* have acquired by their Esopus diligence. Did not the Priory Theatricals inspire a certain Most Noble Marquis with eloquence and patriotism to check the insolence of the Irish Bench? Is it not reasonably expected of the young Roscius, that the time must quickly arrive when it shall be said of him, with unquestionable truth, as a

political orator, Nec quicquam viget simile aut secundum? In short, if you would have your son, hereafter, to turn out a great senator and statesman; make, now, as much as possible, a little mountebank of him!

How to make a Wit.

To be an orator, he must be a wit. Promptitude and confidence of speech are the qualities the most essentially necessary to that power. He who spiritedly blunders out whatever comes uppermost to him, must, infallibly, utter some good things.-The next requisite is, to have the memory well-stored with such points of witticism, and such humorous stories, as have been, before, often laughed at, and repeated by others. Nothing is less new, than wit: There is scarce a good thing even in JOE MILLER, that is not as old as the days of PLAUTUS: Therefore, let no one be deterred from the repetition of old wit, by any fears of the charge of plagiarism : Old wit has, indeed, more than the adyan

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tages of old wine: having long since pleased, -and having continued to please,-—its power is certain but, who could say as much of fresh, untried wit, that had never made any mortal laugh before?-There is nothing with which taste and criticism have less to do, than with wit: whatever makes people laugh with you, that, be it pun, smut, conundrum, or whatever else pedants may choose to term it, -is absolutely true wit: it produces the effects of wit-a test unequivocal of its genuineness.

My plain, express advice, then, is, that you make your destined orator to get by heart, every morning, the witticisms from the columns of any one of our Newspapers-especially from that hot-bed of puns, and conundrums, the Morning Post. "They are the 66 very reverse of true wit,"-exclaims some pedant: they are false, they are stale." No matter they make people laugh: the call for them is perpetual, and increases perpetually they are eagerly read at the most fashionable breakfast tables: they supply wit

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