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    est patrons , were at Weymouth at tte time the king and the royal family honoured Jyr . Lancaster with so much attention in 1805 * They expressed a desire to see

    him , and he was favoured by an invitation to become their guest , *< J Lt was then , " said Mr . Lancaster , on some occasion , 4 * I first learned the character of Irish

    hospitality . " Lord and Lady Charleville availed themselves of this opportunity to procure the instruction of a schoolmaster , to be sent to Ireland ; and the success of thi $ teacher was the source of the

    satisfaction Mr . Lancaster felt £ t Tullamore . Air . Lancaster ' s next visit was * ynade to Belfast ; and its object was merely to inspect a school established there for five hundred

    children . He found this institutipn in the highest state of perfection . The utmost order prevailed , and to such a state of tractability were thje children reduced , that nil acted under the directions of

    their teachers , as if they were stiipulated by one impulse . The boys appeared contented , and even cheerful and happy , in the midst of all this subordination ; presenting a captivating illustration of

    tfce superlative excellence of Mr . Lancaster ' s discipline , under which b , rapid progress is made in the acquisition of knowledge , and an almost incredible controyl obtai n * ad over the mind , without the

    appeajranqe of irksome restraint or a logs of mental enjoyment . It is worthy of remark , that some of those children were the sons of

    seafaring people , whose early habits bad given th ^ m a marked rudeness and ungovernability of manner ; yet those very boys had not only been brought through

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    their gradations with nearly the usual rapidity , but they had beside learned a decent and modest demeanour . It has been recently

    observed , that amongst 600 children admitted this year , there has not been discoverable a single instance of truantism . Mr . Lan ^

    caster gave two public lectures while he was in Belfast , which were attended by the Marquis of Donegal , Sir Edward May , Gene ., ral Mitchell , and an immense crowd of the most respectable inhabitants of the town . He

    lectured in JJewry on his way back to Dublin ; and in this city he arrived time enough to receive an invitation to the celebrated dinner given to the friends of religious li * . bej-ty , at the Rotunda , on the 19 th of December .

    We have followed Mr * Lancaster over a vast tract of country , co m * prehending several hundred miles , which he traversed , lecturing , and propagating his principles of ed u ^ cation , as he went along , with a rapidity which would appear almost incredible to those who know

    not how ** speed is winged" by a sincere ardour to serve mankind * Mr * Lancaster did not arrive in Ireland until the sixth of November ; his first lecture was not delivered in this city for sonui time

    after ; there was an interval of a week between each of hid three lectures , yet he was able to leave Dublin , in a bad and unfavour * able season , visit the distant quarters we have alluded to , exclusive

    of his nttmfcerleas bye « . journ © y ^ and return' to this metropolis before the 19 th of December , An earljr encomiast , whose fancy was made a little creative by observing the extraordinary exertions of thia , sin « gular character , remarked , that

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    2 && > Intelligence *——Laneasterian System in Ireland

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 268, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/60/