1807.]. of the Deaf and Dumb, in Great Britain, Ke. 
ters, gardeners, cabinet-makers, &c. 
Some pupils from this institution are em- 
ployed to copy writings in the govern- 
ment ottices, and some hold situations in 
merchants’ counting houses. Their regu- 
larity and patience are equally objects of 
approbation, in all the situations wherein 
they are placed. | 
The pupils of this institution succeed 
remarkably well in drawing, seal-cutting 
and engraving, and some of them show 
a strong talent for sculpture. All the 
specimens that have gone abroad among 
the public are extremely promising. 
The greater part of these young people 
speak, and some of them very distinctly 
and mtelliibly, Dr. Gall, the celebra- 
ted Craniologist, remarked durmg his re- 
sidence at Vienna, when he was parti- 
cularly fond of visiting the school for the 
deaf and dumb, that since the time they 
began to exercise their vocal organs, the 
complaints of the chest which were very 
frequent among them before have occur- 
ed much seldomer. 
There are sixty free scholarships be- 
longing to this establishment. ‘Those 
above that number are paid for by their 
parents or friends. None of the free 
scholars are entitled to remain in the 
school more than five years; if during that 
time they have not made progress suffi- 
cient to be fit to put out to something use- 
ful, they are sent home to their native 
parish to be provided for in a workhouse. 
The school at Waitzin in Hungary, 
which was founded by the present em- 
peror, Francis the Second, is richly en- 
dowed by the Hungarian nobility. The 
subscriptions in three months alone 
amounted to above ten thousand pounds 
sterling: The plan for this school, was 
drawn, and its first exercises superintended 
by the Count von Almazy, a learned and 
patriotic nobleman. He chose for the 
site of its establifhment, one of the most sa- 
lubrious and charming situations imagina- 
ble, on the ground of an ancient monas- 
tery, opposite the island of St. Andreas 
on the Danube, to the north of the city 
of Pesth. The head master of the school 
is Mr, Semon, a pupil of Mr. May of 
Vienna. 
‘The third in order in the Austrian do- 
minions, is the school at Prague in Bohe- 
mia; a private establishment supported 
by the talents of the reverend Father Do- 
minic Stehr, a man whose name is high- 
ly deserving of notice in the annals of 
good deeds. This good ecclesiastic has 
about twenty boarders, whose improve- 
ment is atteuded to with the most zealous 
sare. Father Domuinic’s pupiis are par- 
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ticularly well versed im arithmetic; the 
ereater number speak, and one of them, 
a Master Weisbach, who has been eg- 
tirely deaf from hus birth, pronounced a 
long oration with scarcely a defect at one 
of the public examinations which Father 
Dominic isin the habit ef holding, to 
vratify the learned, to excite the emula- 
tion of his, boys, and give satisfaction to 
their friends. 
At Munich in. Bavaria, the deaf and 
dumb have the benefit of a public insti- 
tution under the patronage, and at the 
expense of the king. The title of ma- 
jesty is but new to this sovereign, but the 
world must allow that such instances of 
paterval regard for the amprovement of 
the condition of his subjects are truly 
monarch-like. The institution at Mu- 
nich is a colony from that of Vienna. 
In Saxony, there is at Leipzig a private 
school for the instruction of the deaf and 
dumb, which is one of the oldest in Eu- 
rope. Thisis the school originally set up 
by Mr. Heimecke, whose name is pretty 
well known m some parts of Harope, 
from the dispute which he had on the 
subject of his way of teaching with the 
Abbé de PEpée. It is now kept by the 
widow of Mr. Heinecke, and a Mr. Pet- 
schke, of whom thase whe visit the school 
speak favourably, The number of pu- 
pils at this school amounts to twenty, allof 
whom speak, many tolerably, and read by 
the motionsof the face whatis said tothem. 
In all the states belonging to the king- 
dom of Prussia, there is but one school 
for the instruction of the Deaf and 
Dumb. That is at Berlin the capital. It 
is a private one, and is kept by a Mr. 
Eschke, who by some persons is extolled 
above all other professors of the art, 
whilst others again place him among the 
very Jowest. The eriticisms which have 
been levelled at this gentleman, do not 
ali seem to be perfectly void of argument, 
although certainly a great share of their 
acrimony must be placed to the account 
of a certain unlucky quarrel he has had 
with the partisans of Galvanism.: The 
latter desired to try some experiments 
upon Mr. Eschke’s pupils, with a view to 
ascertain if it were possible by means of 
the Galvanic shock to afford relief ia 
confirmed cases of deafness; which hav- 
ing obtained leave to do; and those ex- 
perments failing, they thought them- 
selves‘pustiied from something they ob- 
served orimagined they observed,to accuse’ 
Mr. Eschke of havmg contributed to the’ 
non-success of their attempts from motives 
personal to himself. Whether the experi- 
meutors or Mr. Bschke have the advantage 
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