SHORT ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL PUBLIC INSTI- 

 TUTIONS LATELY FORMED IN BAVARIA. 



A short Account of the Military Academy at 

 Munich. 



THOUGH it is certain that too much learning is 

 rather disadvantageous than otherwise to the 

 lower classes of the people, — that the introduction of 

 a spirit of philosophical investigation, literary amuse- 

 ment, and metaphysical speculation among those who 

 are destined by fortune to gain their livelihood by the 

 sweat of their brow, rather tends to make them dis- 

 contented and unhappy than to contribute any thing 

 to their real comfort and enjoyments, — yet there ap- 

 pears, now and then, a native genius in the most humble 

 stations, which it would be a pity not to be able to call 

 forth into activity. It was principally with a view to 

 bring forward such extraordinary talents, and to employ 

 them usefully in the public service, that the Military 

 Academy at Munich was instituted. 



This Academy, which consists of 1 80 eleves or pupils, 

 is divided into three classes. The first class, which is 

 designed for the education of orphans and other children 

 of the poorer class of military officers, and those em- 

 ployed in the civil departments of the state, consists 



