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teachers, or to subscribe a sum of money 

 towards the building of a house for a 

 teacher, according to the number of children 

 of each person, and his ability. I have 

 been applied to, to join an association of this 

 kind; and the applicant for the office of tutor 

 was generally an outlaw, a man from Ire- 

 land, as shabby in his appearance, and equal- 

 ly so in his manners, as you would find a 

 bully in a house of bad fame in England. 

 I have remonstrated with some of the better 

 sort of people on the occasion : they for an- 

 swer would say, " What can we do ? those 

 are the only men to be got." To which I 

 have replied, "Children are better without 

 instructors, than, from the employment of 

 improper ones, probably to render abortive 

 every attempt of intellectual improvement," 

 I one day called on a gentleman, of the 

 name of Benj. Delany, Esq., at Shooter's- 

 Hill, near Alexandria ; and when I was 

 introduced to him, it was in a place at a 

 distance from the house, in the garden, 

 which he called his office, HQ was in* 



