Let all parents therefore avoid associating or making their innocent infants acquainted with common prostitutes and abandoned and wicked company.-If they wish to be happy and comfortable, let them be sober, virtuous, and industrious: let them spend the Sunday at some place of public worship, instead of debauching their minds in the alehouse, and wasting their earnings, which are allotted for the support of their families. Let the mother of the children do her best to induce the father to love his own home, and his own children, better than the alehouse:-let her always meet him with a smile. house be clean,-the children clean: and let those comforts which are within the reach of every honest industrious man and woman be reserved for the family, which are too often improvidently wasted in the taproom, producing sickness, disease, and misery, merely because they have forgotten religion and virtue or because they never had it properly impressed on their minds.

Let the

Let it never be said that a child shall, with justice, reproach its parents with a neglect of those duties, by which misery instead of comfort and happiness have been the re

sult. Enforce at home the good instruc tion the children receive at school,and, above all,

1st. See that all the excellent rules, which are given in a printed paper apart, be attended to, with respect to cleanliness, to punctual attendance at the school, obedience to the master or mistress, and to good behaviour in general..

2d. See that the children, as soon as they get up in the morning, and before they lie down in the evening, repeat the excellent prayers to their Almighty Creator, according to the form which has been given, or will be given, to each of them: and let parents themselves learn, from these duties required from the children, that they too have the same sacred duty to perform.

By following this good advice, the school will become a great blessing both to the parents and the children, because it will not only add to their comfort in this world, but

will insure their happiness in that to which every individual is daily, and, in many instances, fast, approaching.

At a Meeting of the Committee of the FREE SCHOOL in Westminster, held at the Committee Room, on Monday, the 16th of June, 1806.

RESOLVED,

That this Address, containing Information, Admonition, and Advice, to parents and others having the charge of children who are now, or may be hereafter, admitted into this school, be printed, and generally distributed among all concerned.

P. COLQUHOUN, Chairman.

JOHN WILKINSON, Treasurer and

Secretary.

CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS.

From the general view thus given of the scheme of education which has been syste

matized for the children of the poor in Westminster, it will be seen that in addition to the advantages which the pupils are expected to derive, an attempt is made, through the medium of this institution, to contribute to the reform of the parents. It is much to be lamented, that many of them are ignorant, and extremely ill educated, while not a few are, most unfortunately for their offspring, immoral and profligate. The great object, therefore, is to steel the children's minds against the evil examples which are too frequently before them.

These details are also given with a view to induce respectable and philanthropic individuals in the other parishes in the metropolis, and indeed all over Great Britain and Ireland, to adopt a similar cheap mode of education, with a view to embrace as great a portion of the children of the poor as may fall within the compass of private benevolence, that, if possible, the manners and morals of the rising generation may (at least to a certain extent) be improved, and their condition ameliorated by habits of sobriety, industry, and virtue. It is scarce possible to conceive a mode whereby a greater benefit can be conferred

on the state, or on the community at large. It embraces almost every object that is useful and important in political economy.

This exposition evinces how much could be done for a very inconsiderable sum of money; since 1000 children may be nearly as well taught, according to this system, and at no greater expense, than the small number of 30 or 40, who are clothed and fed at foundation charity schools, while both are upon a par in point of religious, moral, and all other useful instruction, when they grow up to an adult

state.

Great errors are often committed, and much money wasted in benevolent designs, by taking only a limited, a partial, or an incorrect, view of the object to be attained. The important desideratum is, to compass the greatest possible good at the least possible expense. If ten shillings a year shall convey the same good and useful instruction to the children of the poor, under this new mode of education, as twenty pounds, according to the ancient system of many of the parish charity schools, immense sums are wasted to little purpose, since forty children, in many instances,

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