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ment difproportionately to the profits arifing from the exercife 
of that employment. If we do, many of the competitors will 
fink into indigence, and the employment itfelf degenerate into 
contempt. The penfions;: fcholarfhips, exhibitions, burfaries, 
&c. which have been from time to time eftablifhed in 
England, shave, it is true, diffufed extenfively claflical know- 
ledge ; but they have attracted around them fuch a {warm of 
poor {cholars, which neither they, nor the profeflions to which 
they lead are competent to maintain, that they have tended 
much to caft the honourable clafs of men of letters into de- 
gradation and difrepute. In England at this day forty pounds 
‘@ year is in moft country places confidered as very good* pay 
for a curate, and notwithftanding an ac of parliament inter- 
pofing to preferve the refpectability of the clergy, there are 
many curacies the falaries of which are under twenty pounds. 
I am therefore no friend to that part of Mr. Orde’s fyftem 
by which the defects of Englifh education are propofed to be 
tranfplanted into Ireland.—Boys are to be eleéted from parifh 
to provincial {chools ; from provincial fchools free fcholars are 
to be chofen; from this clafs fome are to be attached to dio- - 
cefan feminaries with fmall f{tudentfhips ; of thefe ftudents fome 
are to receive exhibitions ; of thefe exhibitioners fome are to 
go out on falaries of twenty-five pounds a year for feven years 
as king’s {cholars ; out of king’s fcholars are to be chofen king’s 
ftudents; out of king’s ftudents, feven who are bachelors of 
arts in the univerfity, and who are to have fifty pounds a year 
each for feven years; and to make room for all this influx of 
claflical adventurers, another univerfity is to be eftablifhed in 
the north !—In this fyftem every competitor is the more. for- 
tunate 
