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Fer the Monthly Magazine. 
CAERMARTHEN COLLEGE, 
[We have much pleafure in fubmitting to our 
* readers the following plan of a college at Caer- 
marthen, in South Wales, a diftritt of the 
kingdom which hitherto has been lamentcbly de- 
ficient in the means of acquiring knowledge, 
We give place to the report of the commitice at 
large, in the hope that its circulation through 
this channel may be fervicecble to their excellent 
defign. Ihe liberal condué? of the corporation of 
Caermorthen will aljo, we truft, flimulate many 
of the Englifh corporations either to reform the 
condudt of the exifting public fchools, or to effa- 
blift new ones on a bafis equally ufeful and tibe- 
val with that of the college at Caermarthon. | 
EVERAL gentlemen of refpeétability, 
lamenting the very defeétive flate of 
education both in literature and {cienee, in 
South Wales, have formed the refolution 
to eftablifh a feminary at Caermarthen, 
upon a large and comprehenfive plan, 
combining the advantages of an academical 
inftitution with a public grammar-fchool. 
The fituation of Caermarther, poflefi- 
ing many favourable cireumftances, will 
no doubt contribute to’ the fuccefs of fuch 
a public eftablifhment.; but the com- 
mittee appointed to carry this liberal in- 
tention into effect, place their principal 
reliance on the fyftem of education de-~ 
figned to be purfued, as it embraces every 
branch of ufeful learning and {cience. 
The conductor, the rev. Mr. Jones, 
Jate of Briftol, Dublin, who has traveiled 
in different countries for the purpofe of. 
general information, has alfo employed a 
great part of his life in the,inftruction of 
youth ; and the trufiees, who have elected 
him mafter of the foundation fchool, re- 
ceived the moft fatisfaéiory affurance of 
his charaéter as a fcholar, from the uni- 
verity of Cambridge. 
‘The committee annex his plan of tuition 
in the claffics and polite literature *, 


* The plan of tuition will comprife the Latin 
and Greek claffics, geography, ancient and 
modern; chronology, hiftory, Englith grammar, 
logic, compofition, and criticifm, with conttant 
exerciles in elocution: an annual courfe of 
leétures in ethics and theology to ftudents de- 
figned for the church will be alfe included. 
Ar every half year there will be a public ex- 
amination of all the claffes, when premiums 
will be awarded; and public recitations before 
every Chriftmas vacation. 
Mr. fones’s fyfiem is comprehenfive and 
‘critical 5 his obje€t is to make his pupils found 
claffical fcholars, accomplifhed in the belles 
lettres, with a general knowledge of the moft 
‘beautiful branches of {cieace, 
For the improvement of the pupils at leifure 
hours, a fchool library (at half a guinea per 
Zo 
Propofed College at Caermarthens 
{ Dec. 
which, they prefume, will be found as ex 
tenfive, and produétive of as much ime 
provement, as any that is adopted in the 
moft eminent fchools in England : in ad- 
dition to which, they are authorifed to 
affure the public, that Mr. Jones is en- 
gaged to procure an able mathematical 
tutor, who fhall be employed in giving a 
regular courfe of le€tures on Euclid’s Ele. 
ments of Geometry, Algebra, Plane and 
Spherical Trigonometry, Conic Seétions, 
and in the moft ufeful parts of natural 
philofophy, theoretical and experimental. 
The terms of tuition in the latter ime 
portant branches will be four guineas per 
annum ; and the public will obferve, that 
all the charges incurred will not exceed- 
thirty guineas, for lodging, boarding, and 
afyfematic courte of clafsical and acade- 
rical education. ale 
To accomplith a fcheme fo liberal and 
extenfive, wil require very confiderable 
funds : a large and convenient houfe muft 
be built for the accomodation of the mafter, 
his pupils, and the tutors; the {chool- 
room muft be tmproved and enlarged, and 
a philofophical apparatus provided. 
The corporation of Caermarthen have 
generoufly fubfcribed socl. towards this 
eftablifhment. The eftimate of the whole 
expence is 3000). 
As the completion of this great under- 
taking muf evidently depend on the 
zealous co-operation of the gentlemen of 
South Wales; the committee, confcious 
that they are aéting from the pureft 
and moft laudable motives, appeal with 
confidence on this occafion, to the good 
fenfe and genereus feelings of their coun- 
trymen; and they indulge the moft ardent 
hopes, that when the public are apprifed of 
the nature and extent of this inftitution, 
every individual of benevolence, patriot- 
ifm, literature, and fortune, will enrol his - 
name in the lift of its benefaétors, and by 
every exertion in his power, will promote 
a meafure fo important to the deareft in- 
tereft of his country, in which its future 
charaéter, happinefs, and profperity, are 
involved. 
The field on which it is intended ta 
erect the building, is a dry fandy foil, airy 

annum) will be provided, furnifhed with the 
moft valuable authors in natural hiftory, che= 
miftry, mineralogy, geography, civil and eecle- 
fiaftical hiftory, biography, and Englith poetry 
with mifcellaneous eflays, books of travels and 
voyages, together with globes, and the beft an= 
cient and modern maps. 
Matters properly qualified, in French, mufie, 
dancing, and Scacing, will be engaged. 4 
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