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that had been selected for the occasion ; 
but to shew what approaches might be 
made even in a very short tine. towards 
intelligible utterance, by persons labour- 
ing under the most calamitous excesses 
of impediment. For one case, in parti- 
cular, he claimed particular indulgence, 
who, when first introduced to the institu- 
tion, about five months ago, was, in re- 
ality, little better than a mute, not being 
able to make the simple auswers yes. and 
no, at least to any stranger, without such 
painful and long-continued struggles, as 
were distressing to the very last degree. 
None but those who bad known him im 
that state (and there were some persons 
present who had so known him) could, 
indeed, appreciate what had already 
been done, though every one would per- 
ceive how much remained to do. It was 
the only case of stammering in which 
Mr. T. had ever found mechanical aids 
of any use: but this pupil had at that 
‘ome in his mouth a species of artificial 
implement, that was expected to assist 
him in Some of the elements, but which, 
in fact, had only been introduced in its 
present form that very day. Another 
‘young gentleman would be produced, 
whose impediment had never, indeed, 
assumed so formidable an appearance, 
but which was of an exceedingly com- 
plicated description, since, together with 
all the difficulties of stammering, stut- 
tering, and frequent stagnations of the 
voice, he presented the most decided 
ease of what Dr.’ Darwin calls broken 
association, that can be imagined; fre- 
quently pronouncing syllabies and ele- 
tents the most remote from those he was 
strugeling to produce; d for &, ¢ tor m, 
aud thelike. Mr. T.s 
tleman to be entirely cured. Jiow tar he 
had surmounted the other dificulties, 
would be apparent to the audience; to 
those in particular, of whom there were 
many present, who had been personally 
acquainted with him before he had bce 
placed in the Institution. A third pup: 
presented was a gentleman who foal 
been only three months under EOpE ION 
and during that time had devoted eight 
or nine hours of every day without inter- 
ruption, to the duties of a mercantile 
life. A fourth had been rather less than 
two months at the Institution, to the ob- 
jects of w hich, however, be had paid, as 
it was indeed desirable that every pupil 
should pay, an undivided, and theretore 
successful attention. A fifth was a a pupil 
of Mrs. T.’s, only nine years of age, and 
who, about four montlis ago, was so con- 
Results of the Russian Embassy io Japan and China. 
tated this young gen-, 
‘[Aug. J, 
fused and indistinct in his utterance, that 
even his own parents could not always 
understand him, and strangers could 
scarcely comprehend a word he spoke. 
From such orators, Mr. T. observed, 
whatever might have been done tow ards 
the acquisition cf intelligibleness, the 
full accomplishments of elocution could 
not be much expected. Such accom= 
plishments, however, were not in such 
cases to be despaired of; for there was 
at that time a lady in the room, who had 
brought a letter from her brother, wit, 
during tne Christmas vacation, had at- 
tended the Institution for the cure of an 
impediment, and who had lately Lorne 
away the palm of public speaking from 
all competitors, at a public exhibition of 
the pupils of the Classical School at 
Rugby. ; 
‘The recitations, as stated in the for- 
mer article, occupied nearly three hours ; 
and, except in the individual instance of 
the gentleman first referred to, very little 
diticulty of utterance was observable in 
any of the speakers, more than might 
have been accounted for from the novelty 
of their situation, even if their organs had 
never been in the state that had been 
previously described. Onegentleman, in 
particular; had cultivated with full effect 
the harmonic system of utterance, upon 
which the lecturer lays such particular 
stress; and the passages he recited from 
the Passions, from Alexander’s Peast, 
&c. had certainly all the effect ef pathos 
and intonation of which they are so sus- 
ceptible. The demonstration of the har- 
pee proportions .of speech, from the 
tfect produced by the choral recitation 
of particular passages, in correct time 
and unison, was as interesting as a philo- 
sophical experiment, as it was enter- 
taining from its novelty and impression. 
ee 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
RESULTS. of the RUSSIAN EMBASSY (0 Ja= 
PAN and CHINA. 
me foe following particulars have re- 
cently been received. from Prince 
of Wales’s Is! and, respecting the two 
Russian ships Nadeshda and Neva, which 
were sent on an expedition to China, at- 
ter touching on the north west coast of 
America. 
The objects of ‘their voyage were both 
politieal and commercial, and they arrived 
at Macao in December, 1805. The 
Nadeshda carried a Russian ambasSador 
to Japan, where the ships remained for 
four or five months, to repair the damage 
they bad sufered in a gale. Every as- 
sistance 
