make, they must make it to the visitors, and it will be candidly attended to.

7. It is earnestly, desired, that parents will take all possible care that their children's conduct be decent and orderly in the streets; and that they will not suffer them to be running about in the evening, after it is dark, or to be playing about on the Sunday.

8. The parents having female children are permitted to send their own, or their children's clothes, to be mended at the school on Mondays, but they must take care that they shall be brought perfectly clean.

9. The children are to attend at school from ten till twelve in the morning, and from two till four in the afternoon on Sundays, until their progress shall render it expedient for them to go to church.

On other days the school hours are from nine in the morning till twelve, and from two till five in the afternoon, excepting Wednesdays and Saturdays, which are half-holidays, when the morning school lasts till one.

Information, Admonition, and Advice, to the Parents and others having the Charge of the Male and Female Children admitted into the Free School, in Orchard Street, St. Margaret's Parish, Westminster.

THIS school has been established upon a new and extensive plan, for the purpose of giving good instruction to a great number of those poor children residing in the city of Westminster and parts adjacent, who, generally speaking, would not have any education at all, were it not for such an establishment.

That no obstacle may stand in the way of attaining the great benefits which this new institution affords, it has been determined by the managers that all orphans, and the children of soldiers, marines, and seamen in His Majesty's service, shall be educated free of every expense, while all others will be required to pay only the very small sum of one shilling every month*; which is so moderate, that no

*Where there are two children of one family, it is only 11d. each; if three, the school wages is only 10d. a month for each.

parent can have any reasonable excuse, on the score of expense, for withholding from his children the great benefits which they will derive from this institution; which becomes the more necessary, as experience shows that thousands in these parishes have been ruined, and have become wicked and profligate for want of religious and moral instruction in their early years.

Many of the parents whose children are admitted at present, or may hereafter participate in the benefits resulting from this good institution, have, no doubt, often lamented that in early life they were themselves deprived of the advantages of a moral and religious education; and therefore, if they reflect at all, they must rejoice in the favourable opportunity which now offers of conferring upon their innocent offspring that good instruction which will preserve them in innocence, will prove a safeguard against the vices and wickedness which has ruined so many young persons who had not the same advantages, by which parents have experienced great affliction, instead of deriving comfort and assistance from their children after they have become men and

women.

All these calamities (and they are almost without number) are to be attributed to the want of religious and moral instruction in early life, and to the bad examples of parents themselves, who having been deprived of good instruction in early life, are unable or unwilling to see the benefits it will confer on their children; and hence they become disobedient, undutiful, idle, and profligate,

Let every parent reflect, that he or she is accountable to the Almighty Creator of all things for his or her conduct towards their children-that evil example, such as profane swearing, coarse and rude expressions, drunkenness, immoral songs, quarrels and domestic broils, violent passions, indecent discourse, idleness, and lounging in alehouses, are all high offences against the sacred laws of the Supreme Being, and greatly aggravated when they are exhibited to the view and hearing of infants, who are but too apt to imbibe bad impressions, when the evil example comes from their parents, and which never fails to bring ruin and destruction upon the whole family.

It is therefore expected that parents and others who have children under their care, for whom the benefit of this school is intended, will see the necessity of showing a good example to their children, without which it will be in vain to expect much advantage from those excellent lessons of religion and morality which will be given at this school, with a view to make them good men and virtuous women, when they grow up in life; because such bad examples at home will destroy all the good instructions the children receive, and will render it of no use; and by that means defeat all the purposes of this good design for their benefit.

It becomes on this account the bounden duty of all parents and others, having the charge of children, to amend their own lives wherever any thing is amiss, for their own sakes and for the good of their children.Since no father, mother, or relation, having children under their care, can possibly wish to see them become wicked and abandoned, inasmuch as such wickedness never fails to produce crimes, while crimes are generally followed by disgraceful punishments, and great affliction to parents and relatives.