at least, to religious and political prejudices, nothing more has
been done, besides marking the site of a building these five
years, so that I have told them I shall resign.

I much wish to have some conversation with you on social subjects;
but I cannot expect that the Vice President of the United States
should visit me in my _shed_ at Northumberland, and I cannot come
to you. I intended on my settling here to have spent a month or so
every winter at Philadelphia, but the state of the times, and
various accidents, have a little deranged my finances, and I
prefer to spend what I can spare on my experiments, and
publication, rather than in travelling and seeing my friends.

With the greatest respect, I am,
Dear Sir,
Yours sincerely,
J. PRIESTLEY.

Northumberland Jan. 30, 1800.

Dear Sir--

I enclose my thoughts on the subject you did me the honour to
propose to me. Your own better judgment will decide concerning
their value, or their fitness for the circumstances of your
College. This may require a very different distribution of the
business from that which I here recommend.

I thank you for your care to transmit a copy of my works to Bp.
Madison. He, as well as many others, speaks of the increasing
spread of republican principles in this country. I wish I could
see the effects of it. But I fear we flatter ourselves, and if I
be rightly informed, my poor _Letters_ have done more harm than
good. I can only say that I am a sincere well wisher to this
country, and the purity and stability of its constitution.

Yours sincerely,
J. PRIESTLEY.

Northumberland May 8, 1800.

HINTS CONCERNING PUBLIC EDUCATION

Persons educated at public seminaries are of two classes. One is
that of professional men, and physicians and divines who are to be
qualified for entering upon their professions immediately after
leaving the college or university. The other is that of gentlemen,
and those who are designed for offices of civil and active life.
The former must be minutely instructed in everything adding to
their several professions, whereas to the latter a general
knowledge of the several branches of science is sufficient. To the
former, especial