486° Hon, Adtion of Capt. Clarke— Dublin Drawing-fchool. [ Jan. 1; 
dered at, that this tragedy ftruggled with 
difficulty through the firit night ? 
Tam, &c. le. 
P. S. I find the Works of Chatterton are 
announced, May we expeét a portrait, ob- 
tained jn the manner fuggeftedin a former 
Number of your Magazine ? 
ee 
ihe Editor of the. Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE foliowing teftimony of the liberal 
ci charatter of Captain George Clarke, 
of -his Majeity’s fhip Braakel, now in the 
Mediterranean, is copied from the Feuzlle- 
ton du Journal des Defenfeurs de la Pa 
triz.—In the 7th year of the republic, 
Citizen Dubue, a fuperior officer of 
the French navy, was in the Ifle of 
France, and put on board a Danith fhip, 
bound to India, the fum of 24,000 livres 
(about a thoufand pounds fterling) to be 
conveyed to his family, which, in his ab- 
fence, was deftitute of every refource. The 
fhip happened to be met and ftopped by 
Mr. Clarke, Captain of a fhip in the En. 
glifh navy, who found, in the, papers of 
the Danes the moft inconteftable proofs of 
the fum belonging to Citizen Dubue, and 
coniequently of its becoming the lawful 
prizeof the conquerors. The gallant and 
fpe&table Englith officer, being informed 
of the diitrefs which the events of the 
war had occahoned to the family of the 
C.Dubue,requefed of his crew their confent 
to forward the captured fum to this unfor- 
tunate family. . Having obtained their 
confent, he actually wrote a very polite 
Jetter to Madame Dubue, and defired her 
to accept the {um, as a mark of the efteem 
and gratitude, which was due to her huf- 
band for the fignal fervices he had, on 
many occafions, rendered to the Englith 
prifoners ; fubjoining, that the money be- 
longed to her by too refpectable a ti- 
tle, not to induce all perfons under his 
‘command to convey it to her. General 
Duabue himfelf has communicated this ho- 
novrable fa& to the French journalitt. 
—Sa eee 
To 
Te the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
A S the Hiffory of Academies feems 
 \ to fall within your plan, I hall fur- 
nish you with an Account of the Origin 
and Progrefs of the Drawinc-ScHOOL 
cr DuBLIN, from a fcarce little pamphiet 
aicribed to Mr. Walker, the hiflorian of 
the Iryb Bards and Italian Tragedy, intitled 
Outlines of a Plan for promoting the Arto 
Painting 12 Ireland; with a Lift of Subje@ 
for Painters, drawn from the romantic and 
genuine Hiftories of Ireland. 
“When the Dublin Society was yet in 
its infancy, and fupported by private fub- 
{cription, it befriended the art of defign. 
So early as the year 1744, this ufeful body 
employed Mr. Weft (father of the prefent ~ 
ingenious painter of that name) toinftruct — 
twelve boys in drawing at his houfe, in 
George’s-lane. Soon after, taking a houfe 
in Shaw’s-court, Dame-itreet, they built 
a {chool-room for Mr. Welt; to this room 
he removed his pupils. In 1753, Mr. 
Mannin came to Ireland, and was imme- 
diately engaged by the Society to inftrué 
eight boys in ornamental and land{cape 
drawing. This number was foon in 
creafed to twelve. Previous to this, th- 
Society was incorporated, and their funde 
augmented by the bounty of Parliaments 
Annual falaries were now fettled on 
Meilrs. Weft and Mannin, and apartments 
given them in the Society’s houfe, in 
Shaw’s-court ; and they engaged, on their 
part, to receive as many pupils as the So- 
ciety fhould recommend. And Mannin, 
in a confideration of further allowance, 
agreed to open a {chool for the infruction 
of girls in his department of ornamental 
drawing. On the removal of the Society 
to their prefent houfe in Grafton-ftreet, 
the {choo! for girls was difcontinued, and 
the mafters no longer allowed the benefit 
of apartments; but their falaries were 
continued, and they were appointed to 
prefide over a {chool opened in a building 
adjoining their houfe. ‘To the profeffors 
of figure and ornamental drawing was 
now added a profeffor of architeéture ; and 
out of the annual grant of 5ocol. to the 
Dublin Society, the fim of 300]. was ap- 
propriated to the fupport of this fchool.” 
This {choel has, I am informed, lately 
undergone feveral alterations, of which 
fome of your Correfpondents will perhaps 
be able to furnifh you with an account, 
Iam, &c. A.B, 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ENQUIRER, No. XXIV. 
IS BERKELEY’S DEFENCE OF IDEALISM 
SATISFACTORY? 
ETAPHYSICIANS have difputed 
much concerning the original fub- 
ftance or primary material of the univerfe. 
Some maintain, with Berkeley, that there. 
is but one fubflance, and that, fpirit. 
. Some 
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