1805.] 
nected with any fubject to be paffed over 
in filence ; and the gracesof converfational 
~ aecompiifhment, and the towering energies 
of_foui, and range of intelle€tual atrain- 
ment effer tial to genuine eloquence,;-—and 
all that relates to the formation of the ora. ' 
torical character, come ultimately under 
confideration. 
6 For the purpofes of more complete il- 
luftration as well as of enterraining variety, 
the Lectures are ufually accompanied by 
feleét recitations and readings, and fpeci- 
mens of f{pontaneous oratory devoted to 
the vindication of the ufefulnefs and im- 
portance of this negleGted branch of edu- 
cation.”* 
Such, Sir, is the miniature outline of 
that extenfive plan which in the courfe of 
the enfuing winter I fhal! hope to have the 
Opportunity of delineating in all its full 
proportions to the fcientific and the curi- 
ous of your great city—my loved and na- 
tive home, from which I have been fo many 
years a ftranger ; but for which my heart 
beats with all the fondneis of original im- 
preflion. Of the eftablifhment and plan of 
education for the removal of impediments, 
you may probably be fhortly troubled with 
fome furiher explanations, by 
. Your’s refpectfully, 
Joun THELWALL, 
Doncafter, April 6, 1805. 
The following is the Order of Succeffion 
propofed for the Didaétic Difcourfes of 
the entire Courfe. ThelI!luttrative and 
Oratorical Poriions of the Le&tures be- 
ing fubje& to perpetual Variation, mut 
be referred to the temporary Advertile- 
ments. 
Lect. I.—Introduétory Difcourfe on the 
Nature and Objecis of Elocutionary 
Science. 
Phyfological Series. 
Leé. I1.—Theory of the Origin and 
Propagation of Sounds, and ot Vocal 
Sounds, in particular. Structure and Of- 
fices of the Vocal Organs. 
Leé&t. ITI.—Struéture and Offices of the 
Enunciative Organs ; and Anatomy of the 
Elementary Sounds of Englifh Speech. 
Leét. I1V.— The Laws of phyfical Necef- 
fity which regulate the AStions of the Elo- 
cutionary Organs ; and the conlequent 
Alternarion of light and heavy Syllabics. 
Leét. V.—Extent and Limits of Volition 
in regulating the aétions and reactions 
of the primary Organ of Voice; and the 
phyfical Caufe of the exclufive pleafure re- . 
ceived by the human far from Sounas re- 
ducible to the fimple Proportions of com- 
mon and triple Time, 
Letter from Mr. Thelwalt, $51 
Impediments of Speech. 
Le&t. VI.—Oi the Uie and Abufe of the ° 
Term Nature; and the illufive Ditin@ion 
between the Phyfical and Acquired 
Powers of Man; with Initances of extra- 
ordinary Developments and of calamitous 
Extingtions of the Organic Faculties—+ 
Children rendered Speech gis by injudicious 
Management, &c. 
Leét, VII—Of! Natural Impediments, 
and the Structure and Application of Are 
tificial Organs. 
Le&t. Vill.—Caufes and Cure of Habi- 
tual Impediments. 
Education and Management of the Voice. 
Lect, 1X.—Cautes of the Variety of Hus 
man Voices.—Of Tone or fimple Melody 
——its Importance, and the Means of Culti- 
vation and Improvement. 
Lett. X.—Of Power or Force of Voice, 
and the eflential Difference between Force 
and Loudnefs. 
_ Lect. XI.—Of Compafs and Variety, 
and the Managementof the Pitch or Key ; 
with Animadyerfions on the Pitch-pipe of 
the Ancients. 
Lect. XIJ.—Of Modulative Variety, 
and the Characteriftic Intonations of Pa- 
thos, Sentiment, &c. : 
Verbal Delivery; or Education of the 
Enunciative Organs. 
Lect. XI1i.—Diftincinei(s, and its op. 
pofite Defects, 
Lect. XIV.—Articulation, and its op~ 
pofite Detects; with Stric-ures on the De. 
finitions of Jobnfon, Sheridan, &c. 
Lect. XV.—Finithiog Graces of Enunci- 
ation — Impiication, Continuous Har- 
mony, &c. ; 
Harmonics ; or the Mufical Laws of Elo- 
cution.— Melody af Speech. 
Let. XVI—Apolication of the phyfi- 
cal Principle of Pulfation and Remiffion, 
and the confequent Alternations of heavy 
and light Syllables, as the bafisof Elocu. 
tionary Harmony. 
Leé&t. XVIL.—Of Accents; and the Mit. 
takes and Incongruities of moderna Gram- 
marians in the Application of this Term ; 
with Demonftrations of the Exittence of 
mufical Infleétions in the Pronuntiation of 
Englifh Syilables. 
- Leé. XVITI—Of Swell and Fall of the 
Voice—Varities of Strong and Soft, &c. 
Recapitulation of the Conitic:uents of Elo. 
cutionary Melody. 
Meafure of Speech. 
Lect. XIX.—Simple Time; or the uni- 
form Succeffion of quick or flow—Syllabiec 
Time, or Quantity—Generic Time, or 
Cadences of Common and Priple Meafure, 
Laws 
