Es @@:. I 
each parifh for inftru@ting all children who may prefent 
themfelves, let us confider what further affiftance will be ne- 
ceeflary for extending elementary inftrudtion, the firft ftep of 
national education. 
Or fome parifhes the extent, of others the population 1s: 
fo great, that one fchool in each cannot fuffice for, the in- 
firuétion of all the children who refide in them.. The. obvi- 
ous remedy of this infufficiency is to increafe the number of 
fchools in proportion to the want of them.. But who are to 
be the judges of the neceflity for new eftablifhments ? Who 
are to decide the expence, and applot the contributions which. 
may be neceffary for their fupport? 
Ir has been fuggefted that “ fpecial fums might be eafily 
« afcertained and properly apportioned by the veftries, accord- 
“ ing to their knowledge of the pofleffons. within their dif- 
“ triés*.” But veftries are a fpecies of publick bodies very 
ill calculated for the goyernment and {apport of charitable 
inftitutions. They are petty democracies, compofed of the 
moft fugitive materials, actuated by no uniform principle, 
bound to no fyftem of condué; and too frequently, where. 
money is to be difpofed of, full of, cabal and party. 
in my opinion, the more liberal, becaufe more feleét and. 
better educated bodies, the feveral grand juries throughout the 
kingdom, would be not only competent to afcertain what. 
{chools, 
* Mr. Orde’s Plan. 
