Philofophical Leétures, (Fc. in Glafgow. 
actually engaged in bufinefs, who are too 
often fent from the grammar-{chool to 
the counting: houfe, without having op- 
portunity to acquire that information 
which would enable them to fill up, in a 
rational and agreeable manner, thofe 
hours which every one muft find unem- 
ployed in bufinefs, and who are likewife 
ignorant of the principles on which their 
manufactures depend, and therefore inca- 
pable of improving them. 
He lamented alfo the frivolous educa- 
tion of the female part ofthe community, 
who are undoubtedly equally capable as 
the men of acquiring knowledge, if 
they had the fame opportunities, aud who 
would thereby become rational compa- 
nions, in{tead of pretty playthings for the 
other fex. 
By a deed of fettlement, Mr. Anderfon 
difpofed and gonveyed his property of 
every kind to the public, for the improve- 
ment of f{cience, and the eftablifhment of 
an inftitution denominated «* Anderfon’s 
Univerfity,”” to be fuperintended.. by 
eighty-one truftees ; confifting of the nine 
followings claffes: ft, tradefmen—z2d, 
agriculturilts—3d, artifts—ath, manu- 
facturers—sth, phyficians and furgeons 
—6th, lawyers—7th, divines—8th, natu- 
ral philofophers—ogth, .kinfnen of the 
founder. 
Thefe truftees hold their meetings 
quarterly, on the equinoxes and the fol- 
ftices; but the ordinary bufinefs of the 
inftitution is conducted by nine managers, 
chofen annually from among the truttees, 
and who meet once a month, or oftener, 
if neceflary, On the death or refignation 
of any truftee, his place is filled up by 
the clafs to which he belonged. 
A charter was laft year granted, in fa- 
vour of the truftees of this inftitution, 
invefting them with corporate powers. 
Towards the eftablifhment of it, the 
learned profeffor left the whole of his 
valuable apparatus, confefledly the largeft 
in Britain, together with his library and 
mufeum, among which is an excellent 
colle&tion of minerals, the value of all 
which muft exceed 3000]. fterling ! 
The original plan of the inftitution is 
very extenfive, but it being as yet in its 
infancy, it has been found impolitic to 
eftablifh the foundation upon the ample 
bafis laid eut by the learned profeffor ; 
and, therefore, only fuch parts of it have 
been carried into execution as appeared to 
the truftees the moft ufeful, 
Dr. GarneTr, the profeffor of phyfics 
and philofophy, gives three different 
courles of lectures, —The firft, on expe- 
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rimental philofophy, and, the fecond, on 
chemiftry. Thefe lectures are delivered 
in the evening, and made as popular as 
poflible; all abftract mathematical rea 
fonihg being excluded, and. the propofi- 
tions demoniirated experimentally. 
Every morning a third courle is dee 
livered, in which the principles of natu-- 
ral philofophy are fully demonftrateds 
both mathematically and experimentally 3 
and afterwards their application to the~ 
various arts and manufactures. particu- 
larly pointed out; the different. procefles 
performed before the ftudents, and the 
different kinds of machinery. illuftrated 
by working models. 
Thefe le&tures, during the laft. year, © 
which was the firit feflion, were attended 
_ by 975 ladies and gentlemen, and the 
prefent feffion by nearly the fame number, 
one half at leaft being ladies. 
This inftitution is as yet accommo> 
dated only in a temporary manner, in 
fome public building of .this city, but 
the truftees have it in contemplation to 
ereét a college in a central fituation. 
If fimilar inftitutions were to be efta- 
blifhed in. other large manufacturing 
towns, much benefit would be derived 
from them; and it is evident that the 
chief expence of their eftablifhment would 
be the purchafe of an apparatus, fince 
the lefturer, if properly encouraged; - 
would derive confiderable emolument ~ 
from the lectures. noi 
Glafgow, April 8, 1798. 4 (yee be 
ee 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
On the PoETRY of SPAIN.- 
(Concluded from our laff.) 
HE fecond volume contains the 
“© Selva Military Polktica,” © a 
work (fays Don Juan de Sedano) truly 
mafterly and unique in its kind; it is our 
moft celebrated and moft uleful didactic 
poem.’” It fhould be remembered, that 
when this panegyric. was publithed, 
Yriarte had not written his admirable 
poem upen mufic: ‘¢ with incomparable 
{kill, and fingular genius to lay down the 
rules and precepts of military duty, and 
of the moit found policy.”? The ‘ Art 
of War of Reboliedo will-not bear com- 
parifon with Mr. Fawcett’s excellent 
peem, a work which. it-would be unjuft 
to mention without the higheft approba- 
tion: yet is it refpectable both for poetry © 
and morality, when we recollect, that 1 
has been written nearly.a century’ and a’ 
half, and that its author was acount and 
an ambaffador, 
nae Fhis 
