They are taught, with, or without genius, to play on musical instruments, to sing, and to dance a minuet, which their countrymen in general have either not abilities or taste enough to dance with them.

All these accomplishments are attempted to be taught within the compass of three or four years; and the plain girl, with five hundred pounds fortune, is educated in the same manner with the beauty who has five thousand.

Useful needle-work, and the occupations of the lovely daughters of king Alcinous, with the economy of a table, the history of their country, their father and mother's family, and those illustrious women who have adorned their sex, and blest their families, with examples worthy of imitation, are considered only as secondary objects.

The education of our men is quite of a piece with that of our women; all the pursuits of a wonderful Crichton are crowded into the compass of a few years, during which time there is little or no discipline to correct the natural sloth and idleness of youth; neither are they warned against the effeminate practices of young men, at the critical age of puberty, which exhaust the vigour of mankind, and wither the stems of families.

They are taught to consider money, acquired by any profession, however mean or grovelling, nay, even by gaming, by rapine, fraud, and murder, as the only roads to dis

tinction, in a country become altogether venal, and that venality even sanctified by the monstrous nature of the constitution of the nation itself.

From schools and colleges, the young man goes abroad, or fixes in a profession. If he goes abroad raw and unprincipled, he goes, not like the wise Ulysses, to study the manners and laws of nations, more polished than his own, but the opera girls, and fopperies, and fashions of other countries, which have the same tendency in all ages, and in all countries.

If he fixes in a profession, he carries along with him the idleness and dissipation of our seminaries of learning. He scorns to labour a lifetime for an honest, progressive acquisition of profit, but boldly ventures to cast the fortune of his lifetime on a single dye.--Indeed, who will labour for a lifetime, when he thinks he can gain it in half an hour.

He sees also, that, in this country, the acquisition of a fortune will sanctify, or at least conceal, every villainy, and that it matters. not much whether four thousand pounds ayear are acquired as a reward of the virtues of a Chatham, or for starving a million of Gentoos on the other side of the Ganges.

Literary Intelligence.

FOR THE BEE.-SEPTEMBER 21. 1793.

Intelligence respecting German Literature,--Plan of an Independent Press.

GERMANY, which, for many years past, has been in various territories agitated, first by the imprudent quarrel of the late Emperor with the King of Prussia, about the Bavarian and Palatine Pacts, and then by the foolish novelties introduced into the Belgic States, and Principality and Bishoprick of Liege, begins now, under the mild administration of Leopold, to look forward to better prospects.

Reformed religion, liberty, and learning, unfettered by aristocratical and violently monarchical prejudices, will be gradually advanced by the new constitution of Poland, and it seems highly desirable that our British Republic of Learning should diffuse as much as possible its attainments on the Continent, and receive from thence, in return, as much useful erudition, as a quick and free participation of mutual knowledge can afford.

The libraries in Germany contain treasures of learning that have been little examined;

and German writers, overawed by their respective Sovereigns, have not been able, (however willing,) to make a proper user of the materials for history and biography which are in these repositories.

Professor Schmidt, (whose history of Germany is now translated and published in French at Berlin,) tho' he had superior advantages as Inspector of the Imperial Records, has been prevented from using them, when he came to treat of the separation of the Protestant Church from the Roman. The

In free conversation, however, all over Germany, and even at Vienna, many.repútable and respected clergymen, and men of letters, avow the principles of unlimited toleration, and these writers scruple not to confess, that the Roman Catholic Church was much amended by the Reformation; that the springing up of sects forwarded toleration and the cultivation of the sciences; and that, since the Reformation, the Roman Catholic world has become more enlightened by the new doctrines and spirit of us heretics.

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Mr Hegewish, an author of great historical talents, Professor of History at Kiel, has united in his works, judgment, learning, and philosophical reflection, with an entertaining

manner.

Professor Planks, of Gottingen, has some years since favoured the world with a History of the Reformation, in which he unfolds the protestant doctrine and system in a man

ner very clear and candid, and likely to gain attention. His book is the fullest, and best existing, on the German and Helvetic Reformation. He had access to many scarce materials and records, and studied diligently the original works of Luther, Zuinglius, Melancthon, and Erasmus, especially in their too much neglected correspondence by letters, whereby he has made his work an " Histoire. raisonée de l'Esprit Humain du tems de la Reformation." It is delightful to follow this author in his investigation of the gradual rise of the sun of truth in Luther's soul, and in the clearing up the ideas of the first reformers and their contemporaries. The whole histo~ry is very philosophical, the diction noble and pure, yet for adepts somewhat too diffuse.

Professor Hæberlin's History of Germany is an immense magazine of annals, in the manner of our Carte. He had the use of the records and library of Wolfenbuttel, the most complete in German history that can be imagined. The first 34 volumes of this book, printed in octavo of a great bulk, bring his history down only to the year 1594!

In the Gottingen library there is a MS. Collection of Chancellor Viglius Zuichemus's letters,, in twenty-four volumes folio, contain ing important information relating to the history of the reign of the Emperor Charles V. "It contains the speech he made on his abdication in the Netherlands on the 25th of October 1555.