1807.) 
and Copenhagen, which already has to 
boast of the best regulated hospitals, 
and the benefit of the most vigiant 
medical police with: the.limils of our 
knowledge, will im a short tame contain 
an asylum for the education of the deaf 
and duinb subjects of Deotmark, equal 
to the most celebrated in Europe. With 
a view to this the government a few years 
since, adopied a most judicious aad liberal 
measure, by sending aa intelhyeat person 
on a special mission throughout Europe, 
for the purpose of visiting all the public 
and private institutions of the kind, and 
draw Ing up aset of authentic observ ations 
to be laid betore the King, in order that 
the mtended establishment may eine 
every advantage in the power of the deaf 
or dumb to partake. 
The emperor Alexander has sent a 
person in like manner to Vienna, to the 
school of Mr. May, who receives a com- 
pensation for giving him instructions. in 
the art of teaching the Deaf and Domb. 
It is the intention of the Russian govern- 
ment to found a school similar to those of 
Vienna and Paris, at the university-town 
of Wilna, aud it is even said that the 
school is to be erected into a college. 
Much may indeed be expected from a 
young monarch, who expends yearly 
not less than five hundred thousand 
pounds sterling, in the support of five 
hundred scavols tor the advancement of 
his subjects in useful knowledge. 
In Holland there is a sci hool for the 
deaf and dumb, which enjoys some ccle- 
brity. In Switzerland, there was one be- 
fore the revolution, and I have heard, 
that the former professor, Mr. Ulrich, has 
again resumed his labours. 
In the sou h of Europe, I know of but 
two schools for the instruction of the 
Deaf and Dumb actually established; a 
private one of only six pupils kept by Sio- 
nor Assayotto at Genoa, and the school 
of Madrid, maintained at the expence of 
his Catholic Majesty, under the inspec- 
tion of the Royal Spanish Economical 
Socicty, but wh ich is yet too young to be 
fairly brought into comparison with the 
older institutions of the north. There 
should be about this time, a school for 
the deaf and dumb in a state of com- 
mencement at Verona, under the learn-~ 
ed Venturi, who two years ayo was mak- 
ing preparations to establish one. The 
school formerly kept at Rome, by Signor 
Silvestre, is no longer in being. 
Throughout the united kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland, there are, be- 
sides the public institution suppor ited by 
of the Deaf and Dumb, 
in Great Britain, Ke. 13 
voluntary contribution in Bermondsey, 
four other schools for deaf and dumb 
cluldven, of which I have heard mention, 
kept by private persons for the reception 
of such, whose parents are rich enough 
to alford them a more libera! education. 
These chools are, Mrs. Braidwood’s, 
Mr. Telfan’s, and the Abbé Belot’s, near 
London, and Mr. Aungiers in Ireland. 
There was another in England severak 
years ago, under the celebrated Lapland 
Scotchman, or Highiand Laplander, Mr 
Dunean Campbell, so well known for his 
pian: to the gift of second sight; but 
he, however , being dumb himself, instruct- 
ed his pupils only to understand writtem 
language, and words speiled upon the 
fingers. The principal points of diifer- 
ence between all their systems, and the. 
conclusions which experience and obser 
vation have enabled me io form, lie in a. 
few material considerations: they require 
to have a pupil @ long he of years, to 
teach him to speak atall; I do not usually 
find a great length of time: neces ssary 
they must have the pupil from a very 
early age; with me a more adult period 
does uot make a discouragement, nay J 
have ascertained that the deafdumb can 
be taught to speak even in the advanced 
stage of manhood and womanhood: these 
schools must not only have pupils from 
the age of five and six at most, and for 
several years, but, as a sine qua non, their 
proprietors require the child to be cone 
siantly a boarder in the house; a condis 
tion which do not consider indispensable 
by any means, nor should I myself make 
a objec tion to giving mny instructions in 
the house of the parents, or suifering 
them to contribute to the progress of their, 
child, and be a witness of lis daily im- 
provement. 
Raimham Hall, Essex, I am, &c. 
Feb. 5, 1807. E, Mann. 
To the Editor of the Tee Magazine. 
SIR, 
O complaint can be more frequent 
among the learned, than that of 
the loss which we have sustained by the 
negligence of successive ages cei 
the labours of their predecessors. : 
Had all the writings of the ancients 
been faithiully delivered down from age 
to age, (say they), bad the Alexandrian 
library been spared, and the Palatine 
repositories remained unimpaired, ‘how 
much might we have known, of which 
we are now doomed to be ignorant! how 
mauy laborious enquiries, and dark con-= 
jectures; how many collations of broken 
- hints. 
