~ count, 28 Ido not with the public to be 
deceived refpe€ting the above-mentioned 
‘Tranflation. 
I remain your conffant reader, 
Snabe-Dovun Place, JEFFERY BaGGs. 
Fune ¥, i802». 
P. S. With refpe& to the punctuation of 
a paffage in Virgil An. V. 372. whicly Mr. 
Cogan has altered, (vide p.-6) and-which he 
fays is ftrengthened by the authority of my 
Jate ineflimable friend G. Wakefield, f am 
inclined to think that the punétuation as it 
generally ftands, is right, and that the ex- 
planation given by the Grammarian Aulus 
Gellius, is decifive and convincing. JI am 
therefore rather inclined to think that Mr. 
Cogan inftead of the Grammarian took a nap 
(vide p..203) that night. But however I with 
he would favor me with his reafons' why he 
adopts his own punétuation in preference to 
that generally received, 
—a 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
NAVAL SCHOOL AT BREMEN. 
: URING the American war, and 
particularly during the laft war, 
the trade and fhipping of Bremen had fo 
rapidly increafed, that a fufficiént nunpber 
of natives was wanting qualified to. take 
the command of and navigate the mer- 
chant-fhips, which it was neceflary to en- 
trutt to the care of ftrangers from the neigh- 
_bouring part of the Hanoverian Territory 
and Oldenburg. In order to free themfelves 
_ from this difagreeable dependence, and the 
dangerous conlequences therefrom arifing, 
feveral patriotic citizens fubfcribed in 
1709 a confiderable fum for the purpofe 
of inftituting a public Naval Schosl, in 
which ‘the children of burghers who wifhed 
to devote themilelves to the fea-fervice, 
fhould be infiru€ted gratis. Toe plan is 
as follows: Fourteen youths receive Jef- 
fons in arithmetic, geometry, rectilinear 
and fpherical trigonometry, mathematical 
geopraphy, and ipherical aftronomy, three 
days in the week, three hours each day ; 
the courfe of lectures to be concluded in 
one year. .Thofe whoare already engaged 
as failors on board of the fhips belonging 
to Bremen, are during their refidence on 
fhore, tevght, at diftin€@_hours, whatever 
is neceflary to render them fkilful, able 
navigators ; the inftruétions being renewed 
as often as they return to port, till they 
‘receive from the mafter of the {chool a 
tefiimonial cf their being fufficiently in- 
fireGied. The pupils are likewife exer- 
ciled in writing letters,-reports, &c. m 
Naval School at Bremen. 
the German and the French languages; 
and a drawing-mafter is appointed te 
teach them in the art of laying down plans 
of harbours, coaits, &c. the knowledge of 
[July 1, . 
which cannot fail to prove of the greateft 
ufe. The Dire&ors of the Inftitute have 
likewife been enabled by the liberal -con- 
tributions of the fubfcribers, to procure a 
large complete model of a fhip, by means 
of which an experienced feaman makes the 
fcholars acquainted with conftruétion, ufe, 
and management of its various parts: and 
to this practical exercife is added a deve- 
lopment of the theory’ of naval architec- 
ture and manoeuvres. . And asno proper. 
elementary book of navigation exifted in 
the German language, Mr. Braubach, 
who has been appointed the teacher of 
that fcience,’ undertook to write one, 
which has been printed at the expence of 
the Inftitute, and met with the general 
approbation of thofe belt qualined to judge 
of its merits. The fir public examina- 
tion was held on the 25th of March, in 
the prefence of a numercus and moft re- 
fpeftable audiences They were much pleaf- 
ed with the progrefs of the {cholars, who 
acquitted themfelves in a manner equally 
honorable to themfelves and their worth 
infructors. ‘The folemnity clofed with 
the diftvibution of four Englifh oétants, 
as prizes, to thofe who had particularly 
diftinguifed themfelves. All the youths 
have fince been fent to fea as fupernume- 
raries, in order -to learn the practical part 
of their profeffion, and fit themfelves to 
take the command of a fhip. Each is 
furnifhed with a chart, a French and Ger-~ 
man grammar, and three blank paper- 
books to write their journals in.—This 
Naval Schcol will probably become the 
mother of other fimilar ones, as the Pruf- 
fian Minifter Vor Maffow and Count won 
Schulenberg intend to eftablith fuch in 
Dantzig and Elbing, and have for that 
purpole fent to Bremen for a plan of the. 
Inftitution. 
S 
3 a ag cca 7 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SER, 
- 
6 the prefent difpute concerning the — 
piety of our public feheols fhould lead 
to an inquiry into their general merits and 
utility, the public may ultimately derive 
fome advantages from the controverfy. I 
cannot indeed praife the difcretion of the 
abettors of thofe inftttutions for agitatin 
a gueftion which muft terminate in their 
expofure. The profiigacy and vice which — 
is always imbibed at thofe feminaries fs 
notorious; what is almof proverbial muft 
Rave 
