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‘an infirmity ‘or misfortune; and to 
_ bold out a profpect of encouragement 
“and confolation: that may leflén. their 
bs anxiety. 
oF am well aware, that to eftablith an — 
~dutiiedlion of this fort, its nature and me- 
Tits ought to be dearly ftated; I cannot, 
“theretove, bat prefume it w ould be ditti- 
~eult to ‘point out an employment of more 
-igeneral rae te ce to fociety than that, 
-thie profeliors’ of which this inttitution 
iptopoies: to encourage and relieve. In 
addition tothe dimportarice of the pro- 
iéeffion, T'may,-and I hope with pro- 
ephety, “urge tlie great labour and anxiety 
-attendine its’practice, and the madequate 
compentation afforded by it. -In-a word, 
as'no_ protéifion. has an -equal influence 
on the happinefs -of fociety, Tt have-no 
-doubt but the Lbefal -part ‘of the public 
-will be ‘fenfible that, in whatever degree 
whey may eftimate the exertions of” indi- 
vidual {choolsmaiters, they: will benefit 
their awn times or -potierity -by lending 
their fupport te ‘this well-conducted ef- 
etablifhmeit. 
©. The joint-ftock at’ prefent amotnts-to 
‘#1001., and the charitable fund to 1900I!; 
‘hakingia totalof 60001: a fum refpedct- 
‘able, but fcarcely - fufficient to anfwer 
all: the benevolent purpofes of the-iiiti- 
éusion. 1 am, ‘Sir, your's, &e 
efi we pe si. Tomrt INSO on. 
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&. sof POUAND, by an ENGLISH GENTLE- 
Fo MAN. '9ee ently returned from that 
COUNTRY, after ‘@ RESIDENCE wn at 
“s on TWO YEARS, 
LANDED at Dantzic, formerly an 
imdependent town under the protec- 
ation of Poland; aud. as it has always 
theen intiniately conne¢ted with that 
‘countryhy the trade m corn, fome a 
count ‘of a place fo contiderable, yet fo 
ditthe known, may not be unacceptable 
‘before. I introduce my obfervations on 
the interior. . Fhis city is become an ob- 
sett of partietlar intereii, too, from 
events now eyolving. 
Dantzic is fituated on the V. itula, ‘1 in 
an immenfe plain or marfi, about four 
miles from tlie-Baltic.’ Its population (as 
{ learnt froma merehant ef the EE) 
as, as fiated by othets, 36,000. . It is re- 
gularly and ftrongly fortified. ‘Tts cir- 
cumference, within the fortifications, is 
about four miles, as-I afcertained pretty 
a by walking g entirely rouad, The 
‘through the centre ‘of the town. 
Particulars of the prefent State of Poland.  [Feb.1, 
caftern and weftern entrances, which aré 
the principal, are jomed by the lange 
gafje, or long fireet, which paffes nearly 
‘This 
fireet is by no means uniformly built, 
hor of an equal width throughout; it 
comifts rather of two er three different 
ftreets, runing the one into the other. 
The ftreets ¢rofs_one another at right an= 
gles; thofe parallel with the long fireet 
are the widett and beft built. Some fet 
of-thefe have alfo rows of ‘trees on each 
fide. Many of the others are rather 
lanes than ttreets ; ‘the whole are-paved, 
though they are entirely without flags. 
As the esterior form of the “houfes m 
this town is fingular, and fees common 
in this part of the world, the reader may 
perhaps not “be difpleafed with a brief 
defeription of it. “Lhe houfes, then, com- 
“monly ‘prefent a marrow front ; and ap» 
‘pear-as if the gable ends were turned 
towards the ftreet.” The oppofite fides of 
the ‘roof, however, do not converge in 
‘firaight lines, and terminate -in a point; 
‘but deviate into Various Ornamental cur- 
‘vatures, atid finally terminate in rounded 
“moat,’ 
fummits, fimilarly. to what may be ob-. 
ferved over the windows of fome old halls 
‘in England.- 
Oii the weft, immediately soit the 
arife heights which completely 
command the town. One of thefe little 
hills is 2s convéniently fituated for aa 
enemy, as if artificially thrown up ‘for 
his purpofe. I attempted to afcend it, 
in order to look about me; ‘but a feriti- 
“nel foon obliged me to retreat. On the fe- 
cond partition of Poland in 17938, when 
the King of Praffia ufurped ‘the fove- 
reignty ot Dantzic, his firft obje¢t was 
to ebtain pofleffion of this height, whence 
he overawed the town. 
The trade of Dantzic has been faid ta 
be, for fome years, on the declines yet 
a new cuftom-houfe has been - latel i. 
erected, far more capacious than the 
-foriner one : befides, the harbour at Fair- 
water has been enlarged and rendered 
more commodious. I am unable to ad- 
duce the comparative ftate ‘of the cul> - 
toms, of exports and imports, in any 
givei number of former and late years.” 
‘The prevalent. religion at Dantzic, as. 
throughdut Prnffia, is the Lutheran,; 
though there are feveral catholic churches, 
one ofwhich is of conliderable magni- 
tude, and adorned, as ufual, with ava: 
_niety of fuperb imoriuments and fine 
paintings. The lafteft Lutheran church 
is {till more capacious, but totally awith- 
out ornament. “The nar oere in -this- 
refpett. 
