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The plan Is to form a rnufeum, and to erett a building for Plan, 

 the accommodation of Profeflbrs, and the reception and difplay 

 of fpecimens of raw materials and manufaclured articles. One 

 Profeflbr to be engaged to teach the fouthern languages, an- 

 other the northern, and a third to have the care of the mufeum. 

 and the office of explaining whatever relates to the fpecimens 

 under his care. The eftimate for the building and fpecimens, 

 to be raifed by fubfcription, is 2,5O0l. ; and it is propofed that 

 the corporations mould endow the Profeflbrs with 50l. per an- 

 num each. 



The Dottor, who ftands in the honourable fitualion of pro- Its great adrm-> 

 poferof an eftabiifhment fo manifestly ufeful, difclaims the no- tases ' 

 tion of this being a charitable inftitution; but confiders it as 

 the private intereft of every fubfcriber. <r As the father of a 

 iarge family," he obferves, " I certainly mould not think my- 

 (elf at liberty to fubfcribe fifty pounds merely for the perfonal 

 pleafure that refults from the contemplation of a charitable ac- 

 tion; but in fubfcribing fifty pounds to the above inftitution, I ' 

 conuder my intereft and the welfare of my family. I am con- 

 vinced it will add to the wealth and importance of the town; 

 and in both of thefe I am deeply interested : but the greateft 

 intereft I have, is in the facility it will give to the education of 

 my children. In a commercial country and a fea-port town, 

 the acquit! tion of knowledge that evidently leads to the im- 

 provement of trade, becomes an object, of the firft moment in 

 the education of youth ; and the mode now pronofed offers ad- 

 vantages which no private ichool can poflefs. To bring toge- 

 ther under the immediate obfervation of youth (while yet the 

 memory is moft retentive), perfecl fpecimens of the different 

 articles of commerce, both of the raw material and of the ma- 

 nufactured, will enable him to bear in mind the precife value of 

 any article he may be called upon to appreciate : To point out 

 the country where every article is firft procured or manufac- 

 tured, will qualify him to go to the cheapeft market, and by 

 teaching him the language of fuch country, he will be at all 

 times capable of tranfact-ing his own concerns without the in- 

 tervention of interpreters, often a very ferious iburce of impo- 

 fition." 



It will no doubt be of great advantage to the town of Hull, 

 that this plan lhould meet with fupport, and to the community 

 atJarge, that it fhould be followed in other places. 



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