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= quite satisfied with the prospect of a drilled 
population, yet the introduction of habits 
of order, if not prematurely carried too far, 
into the occupation and very sports of 
childhaed; may have a beneficial tendency 
on fufure Character and exertion. The 
systems of Mr. Wilderspin and of Mr. 
Goyder are not essentially different ; and 
the principal point of controversy (for there 
is controversy) between them, is upon the 
péeint.of rewards and punishments, both of 
which..Mr. W. appeals to, though to the 
latter.in a very mild and restricted sense ; 
bat both, theoretically at least, though with 
some little practical qualification, Mr. G. 
rejects. Corporal punishment, however, in 
its received sense, and even badges of 
shame that beget nick-names, he utterly 
diseards, as unnecessary in the education of 
youth. Into this question we cannot go; 
but advise our readers to refer to the re- 
spective authors, and compare their argu- 
guments : though perhaps it will be apparent 
to which side we lean, when we refer the 
reader to the following quotation from the 
Manual, p. 109 to 111]. 
‘A child, gifted by nature with a good capacity, 
will readily take his learning, surmount every task 
exacted from him, and of course receives the re- 
wafd. Another child, not gifted with so good a ca- 
pacity (but equally emulous of obtaining know- 
ledge) will manifest more dulness, and require a 
longer period of time ere he can attain his tasks: 
this child, under an imputation of supposed negli- 
gence and inattention, wilk be punished for failings 
which are beyond his control; this raises a degree 
of hatred in the mind of the latter, while the feel- 
ings of.self-love are excited in the former, who 
imagines himself very superior to all his fellows. 
«« It is true, monitors are placed over the children; 
it is also true that they are taught to look up to such 
monitors with due respect; no badge of supe- 
riority is allowed; no crosses at the button-holes, 
no first and second places, or trials of ability be- 
fore a public audience, no penny a-week, &c. &c.; 
for what are all these but so many dangerous stimu- 
lants, which tend more to harrow up the passions, 
to puff up the mind with an undue consequence of 
its own superiority, and thus to feed its impure 
self-love.” 
But this is an argument that should not be 
judged by mutilated extracts. 
‘We should add, that Mr. G.’s plan is 
not'merely confined’ to gratuitous schools, 
but 'is equally applicable to such as may be 
established for those children whose parents 
can afford to pay from three half-pence to 
sixperce a week for the education of their 
young children. 
Hints to the Young Jamaica Sugar 
Planter. - By Roverr Hissrrt, Jun. 
Esq:, 12mo.— As far as relates to the “ out- 
fit and expectations” of “ young men leav- 
ing England for Jamaica,’’ and what relates 
to their interests in managing their sugar 
platitations, so as best to secure to them- 
selves the sweets of the produce, these hints 
may probably be all very well—though we: 
pretend not to -uny practical knowledge in 
these” matters.“ But with respect to the 
général’ ‘tefiour ‘of ‘the sentiments and 
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opinions, concerning our “ supposed to be 
afflicted brethren’’ (whether the mistake of 
the supposition be in imagining that the 
negroes are our brethren, or in the fact of 
their being ‘afflicted), we cannot accord 
even a problematical approbation :—for, 
although “Mr. Lawrence may have ob- 
served”’ in his lectures lately printed, that, 
“« Regarding the negro faculties, the abolitionists 
have erred in denying a natural inferiority, so clearly 
evinced by the concurring evidence of anatomical 
structure and experience ;”— 
and, although Mr. R. H. may, in his 
“large opportunities of . observing’ the 
specimens of native character, in the flocks 
of fresh-imported negroes, at “the time 
when the importation was unrestrained,’ 
have “‘never found any symptoms of strong 
intellect among the best educated’”’ of them 
—even of those who had enjoyed the ad- 
yantages of a ‘‘ Mahometan education !””— 
nay, although we are not absolutely hor~ 
rified by his suggestion of distinct races 
of the human species, and should not 
quite foam at the mouth, or require a strait- 
waistcoat, at the bare mention of a black as 
well as white Adam and Eve,—yet, should 
we not quite as readily as Mr. H. abandon, 
or reprobate the idea of introducing civili-: 
zation into Africa, or of considering the ne- 
groes as entitled to a fraternity of rights, 
liberties, physical and intellectual improve- 
ment: because we, in common with many 
others, whose studies of human nature 
have not been confined either to cargoes: 
of manacled slaves fresh imported, or gangs 
of the same vital ebony long used to the 
lash, happen to know that there has been, 
eyen among the few blacks in this country, 
such a person as Ignatius Sancho, a 
literary correspondent of Shenstone, &c. ; 
and have also known and heard a negro. 
orator, with a clearness and power of logic, 
and a force of language, that would not 
have disgraced the whitest-faced senate of 
Europe—defend the rights and claims of 
his sable brethren, in a thronged and pub- 
lic assembly in this metropolis :—and_ be- 
cause, even if we admitted (which, perhaps, 
we should) the general inferiority of the 
race in some particulars,—yet, we should 
not therefore conclude that we have, or 
ever had, aright to steal and tear them from 
their native clime, or purchase from those 
who had stolen and torn them tase by 
open violence or secret fraud),—to hold 
them and their posterity in eternal bonds, 
under the lash of task-masters ;—to compel 
them to work five or six days in every 
week for our luxuries, and the other one 
or two for their own subsistence. To us, 
the value of any book that countenances 
any part of this system, or assists in shew- 
ing how to render it most profitable to, 
the owners of such stock, is, not much_en- 
hanced by all the directions.that can be 
given about the management of the lash, 
the hoe, the mill, the boilers, &c.,:and the 
best disposal of the trash of the’ sugar-cane, 
for the fattening of pigs and negroes." =” 
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