210 Notes vrritten during a late Residence at Buenos Ayres. [Oct. I, 
cessfully the voice of a majority of 
parishioners will avail in any opposi¬ 
tion, against interested parties, the re¬ 
sults of proceedings in. several places 
regarding new churches will sufficiently 
Sh OW. 
Experience has amply proved the 
impolicy and danger of the measure so 
far as it concerns the children. In an 
essay towards the encouragement of 
charity schools, Dr. Isaac Watts has 
recorded, that 44 there was a cha¬ 
rity school set up in Gravel-lane, 
Southwark, by the Protestant Dissen¬ 
ters, a little before the revolution and 
our deliverance by King William of 
glorious memory. Many others were 
formed by persons of the established 
church, to which several Dissenters 
subscribed largely. But at last they 
found, by sufficient experience, that the 
children were brought up in too many 
of those schools in principles of disaf¬ 
fection to the present government, in 
a bigotted zeal for the word church, 
and with a violent enmity and mali¬ 
cious spirit of persecution against all 
whom they were taught to call Presby¬ 
terians, though from many of their 
hands they received their bread and 
clothing.’’ (Works , vol, 2, t>. 724, 4to. 
1753.) ' 
For the foregoing ana many oilier 
reasons, the Dissenters are actively op¬ 
posed to the Education Bill, and are in 
all "quarters exhibiting, in a constitu¬ 
tional way, that they are duly alive to 
their own interests. Their success 
must greatly contribute to the nation¬ 
al good, for, as Dr. Doddridge has 
said, 44 The cause of the Dissenters is 
the cause of God 1” 
With any parliamentary regulation 
regarding the compulsory instruction 
of the children of the established 
church, the Dissenters have no right 
or wish to interfere. But, if parlia¬ 
ment in its wisdom should resolve that 
the whole community must pay towards 
general .education, equity would seem 
only to require that the designation of 
a Dissenter’s contribution should he to 
some school within his own choice, 
(provided such school he known to 
exist, by being registered within the 
parish, or otherwise) and the tender 
of a receipt equivalent in amount to 
any rate fixed by authority, should be 
accepted as his discharge. Such a re¬ 
gulation, by the competition it would 
ensure, would best promote 44 the great 
benefit of improvement in knowledge, 
morals, and religion,” which is the 
ostensible object of Mr. Brougham’s 
bill; and it would be in accordance 
with an observation of Dr. Adam 
Smith, that 44 those parts of education 
for the teaching of which there are no 
public institutions , are generally the 
best taught.” (Wealth of Nations, 
book 5, chap. 1.) 
Mr. Brougham’s attention is respect¬ 
fully invited to the following remark. 
In a pamphlet entitled 44 A Letter from 
a Layman in Communion with the 
Church of England, &c. 1714,” at p. 
24 it is stated that 44 Monopolies will 
ever be found as fatal to learning as to 
trade; and the deepest ignorance will 
some time or other be the consequence 
of all restraints upon literature .” 
8, Temple-place, B. Hanbury. 
Black friars Road , Aug. 1821. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
NOTES written during a late Residence 
at BUENOS Ayres, by an English 
Gentleman , formerly of Bene't Col¬ 
lege , Cambridge. 
(Continued from No. 357, p. 33. J 
O F the birds, many are of the same 
general appearance, hut of a differ¬ 
ent species from those of Europe. In this 
way there are wild turkeys, smaller 
than the lame, partridges, pheasants, 
woodcocks, snipes, and plovers, the 
latter distinguished from those of Eu¬ 
rope, by a spur or horny excrescence 
on the pinion of each wing. Partridges 
and pheasants are brought in profusion 
to market, from a distauce, both by 
Indians and Spaniards. Not a shot 
can he found in them, as they are 
killed by men who ride full gallop 
amongst immense coveys, and strike 
them down with a long cane. Another 
man follows, and puts the dead birds 
into hags or panniers of hide, which 
hang one on each side of a horse. 
Great quantities of wild ducks of va¬ 
rious kinds, as well as snipes, are shot 
for sale. White geese with red legs, 
storks, and swans, are common. Flocks 
of gulls from the river, are seen feeding 
on the great square, and the various 
killing grounds. A kind of wild pea 
is found in marshy places. 
On the plains are numerous ostriches, 
the eggs of which, though coarse eating, 
are exposed for sale during the spring. 
There are also hawks, vultures, and 
owls, one kind of which is a day bird, 
and lives under ground, in the holes 
made by the biscaecias. 
Swaliows different from those of 
Europe, which however retreat in the 
winter, 
