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Literary Intelligence. 



It is with pleasure- the Editor announces to the public, 

 the institution of a new literary society in Newcastle up- 

 on Tyne, on a plan so liberal, as cannot fail to be atten- 

 ded with very beneficial effects to society. Happy it is 

 for those communities in which men, instead of wrangling 

 about politics or controversial divinity, which only tend 

 to sour the mind, and to estrange men from one another, 

 cordially unite together with a view to the advencement 

 of science, and the general difsemination of useful know- 

 ledge. Among young persons in particular, such institutions 

 are in the highest degree beneficial ; as they excite a spi- 

 rit of emulation ihat gives a laudable bent to the human 

 mind, and calls off the attention In some measure from 

 vain and frivulous, perhaps vicious pursuits. Every per- 

 son who has the welfare of the community at heart, which 

 is best promoted by the active energy of iriind, and the 

 virtuous dispositions of its members, must rejoice at the 

 diffusion of such laudable societies, and lend his best aid 

 to promote their prosperity. Every parent especially en- 

 dowed with ample fortune who is interested in the wel- 

 fare of his posterity, must feel a glow of satisfaction at 

 the mention of such an institution within the sphere of 

 his influence, as it must naturally tend to diminifh that 

 anxiety which every parent must feel, when he sees his 

 children exposed to the seductions of pleasure, or the al- 

 lurements of ambition, without any powerful call to di- 

 vert his mind into an ardent pursuit' of objects that tend 

 to afford more lasting and satisfactory enjoyments. It is, 

 therefore, in a peculiar martner incumbent on such mea 



