A National Evil Requires A National Remedy;

The Rich Possess Ample Means To Realize Any Theory They May Chuse To Adopt In The Education Of Their Children, Regardless Of The Cost; But It Is Not So With Him Whose Subsistence Is Derived From Industry.

A Spirit, Breathing The Language Of Independence, Is Natural To Englishmen, Few Of Whom Are Disposed To Brook Compulsion, Or Submit To The Dictates Of Others, When Not Softened By Reason, Or Tempered With Kindness.

At A Moderate Calculation, Among A Million Of Persons Inhabiting The Metropolis, There Are, At Least, Twenty-five Thousand Children Who Attend These Schools, And Cost Their Parents As Many Pounds Sterling, Per Annum.

This System Of Encouragement Proves Serviceable As A Preventive Of Punishment, The Attainment Of The Tickets Being A Reward, The Forfeiture Of Them The Reverse; And, As Such, Boys Seem Often More Affected By Their Loss Than By Coercion.

Many Thousands Of Youth Have Been Deprived Of The Benefit Of Education Thereby, Their Morals Ruined, And Talents Irretrievably Lost To Society, For Want Of Cultivation: While Two Parties Have Been Idly Contending Who Should Bestow It.