gave up good places, into the streets, and entail upon them misery and wretchedness as long as they live. To assure them that the moment they forget the good precepts learnt at school, and cease to be prudent, industrious, careful, and discreet, that their ruin and misery become certain.

Admonitions extending to these specific points are of the greatest importance in the metropolis and most large towns, where the vices of their own sex are in a manner rendered familiar from early years by too frequent intercourse with women of depraved manners in many instances unavoidable (it is to be feared) in vulgar life, where numbers of every description herd together in miserable lodgings, by which vice, and profligacy, is too often rendered familiar to young female minds, before they have been able to make the distinction between good and bad morals; and hence it is, that so many females become miserable and abandoned prostitutes, even before they arrive at an adult age.

money wholesale prices, and, when made up, the parents are, and will be, invited to purchase the garments made by their own children, at the first cost only of fue materials, and an attempt is thus made of ultimately clothing all the girls in cheap decent dresses made by themselves, all of the same pattern.

Copy of a Printed Address, on a paper apart, delivered to each of the Parents of Children admitted into the Free School, in Orchard Street, Westminster, as a farther means of promoting regularity and good discipline, and presented to the Author by a benevolent Subscriber.

THE visitors who superintend the school are anxious to train up the children educated there in habits of diligence and good order, cleanliness and neatness; in principles of morality and religion, and in obedience to their parents; that they may be prepared to fulfil the duties of the stations in which they may be hereafter placed. In this good design you are earnestly invited to act in concert with them; for it will be in vain to give instruction at school, if it is not seconded by the endeavours of Parents at home.

You are entreated, then, to be very careful that your children attend the school punctually at the appointed hour, not suffering them to trifle till it is late, or to loiter by the way. Let them be always clean washed and combed, that they may learn to be ashamed of not being neat and cleanly. Do not permit them to be absent from school, except upon occasions of absolute necessity, for those who are frequently absent can never make much progress. You are earnestly requested

also not to allow them to run about the streets out of school hours, or to form acquaintance with idle and disorderly children: and particularly on the Sunday, out of the hours of attendance at school and at church, keep them at home, under your own eye, and see that they are properly employed.

A little reflection will convince you of the absolute necessity of fully submitting to all the regulations of the school, and of supporting its discipline, without which it can be of no service. Do not, therefore, listen to the partial representations made by children who have been reproved for doing wrong, and particularly abstain from making use of warm or hasty expressions, in their presence, against the master, mistress, or visitors; and if you think you have any just ground of complaint, make it in private to the visitors, who will candidly listen to it. Above all, attend to the disposition of your children, and carefully check, at their very first appearance, any symptoms of passion, sullenness, malice, deceitfulness, or pride. Reason with them affectionately and calmly on the evil of such passions; teach them to act from a reverence to God, and a regard to His authority. Be

careful that they say their prayers night and morning: accustom them to spend a few minutes every night before their prayers, in recollecting their faults, and be frequently reminding them how necessary the favour, and blessing, of God is to their welfare and happiness in this world, and that which is to come. It is by good principles that a good conduct will be promoted, and these principles will be implanted rather by continual watchfulness and affectionate remonstrances, than by angry expressions and severe correc

tion.

By such a system of constant attention at home and at school, it is hoped that your children, under the Divine Blessing, may grow up to be happy in themselves, dutiful to you, and useful to society; and in due time be prepared for a better world above, when this short and sinful life is ended.

Rules to be strictly enforced by Parents after the Admission of a Child into the School.

1. The parents are requested to send their children punctually at the appointed

time, as strict attention will be paid to their coming exactly to the moment.

2. Every child sent to the school is expected to be clean washed and combed, the hair to be cut short, and the head very clean, without ear-rings or finery of any sort.

3. No child can be permitted to stay in the school, who does not attend regularly.

4. No child is to stay at home without leave from the visitors, except in case of illness, of which notice must be sent to the school, to distinguish whether the absence is occasioned by the fault of the child or not.

5. The parents are expected to submit perfectly to the regulations of the school, and to be willing that their children bear the correction that is considered as necessary to support the discipline of the school.

6. No complaints can be suffered to be made to the master or mistress in the school. If the parents have any to