ECHO.....NO. VIIK

From the Diary, &c. of October 10, 1792.

TO THE PRINCIPAL GENTLEMEN AND LADIES OF

THE CITY AND COUNTRY.

"HAVING,

AVING, before the late Revolution, had the honour when every body and every thing in America and Old England understood one another; and in 1763, that period also being calm and serene; I had likewise the honour to hold or sustain two important offices in this state, viz. the Post Office and the Commissariat; and during that period, I had also the honour to correspond with the first gentlemen at that time in the country; I will mention the first gentlemen at that time in the country. The Honourable Sir William Johnson, Baronet; the Honourable Hugh Finlay, at Quebec; Sir John Johnson, Baronet; Hugh and Alexander Wallace, Esquires; and all the gentlemen printers on this vast continent.

"From my correspondence with men and a good library of books, I think I have sufficient knowledge to take upon me the education of a few country gentlemen's children; say six boys, from twelve to fifteen years of age, my situation will be near the city, in a very healthy desirable stand, near perhaps to the Israelitish Burying Ground; I will study or teach none but English Syntax and refined sentiment. I know nothing of the business of a country schoolmaster, who would positively take one whole sheet of paper to communicate his ideas, when any of my scho lars possessed with the least share of sense, shall do it with propriety and elegance in six lines. My plan therefore will be to take

only six gentlemen's children for six months, when they shall be fitted for business. The elegance of double entry, or the Italian method of Book-keeping, shall be taught (if they please) with propriety. The young gentlemen may then, if they please, leave the Academy for six months, to re-enter, and so on a regular and uniform succession of them.

Mr. Monier's plan will be to board them, wash them, and lodge them. Mrs. Monier is of a respectable Dutch family, and will not suffer one dirty matter about the house, nor about the gentlemen's children-this by way of further introduction to his plan.

Mr. Monier further acquaints his friends and the public, that five whole days in the week he means to devote his time to the children; but Saturdays a total relaxation from business, when his pupils may then visit their friends in comfort. Terms of entrance and schooling to be made known, and made easy to the public.

JOHN MONIER,

Late Deputy Post-master, and Agent at Albany. N. B. The subscriber will begin to take in subscribers' names the 8th instant, and open the Academy the 22d.

HARTFORD, OCTOBER 29th, 1792.

"Once more shall drowsy ECHO rise,
"Lift up her head and rub her eyes,
"Quit BRACKENRIDGE for JOHN MONIER,
"And give the pedagogue a cheer.”

Ye city dames who roll the streets around,
Ye country Joans who till the furrow'd ground,
Around whose board a tribe of noisy brats,
Throng thick as mice in absence of the cats,

If to my school for six short months you'll send 'em,
I'll teach them all I know, and scour and mend 'em,
I neither ask nor wish a moment more,

For all I know, I learn'd in less than four.

BEFORE the Briton left his distant shore,
To drench Columbia's peaceful plains in gore,
When men and things each other understood,
And Bute and North turn'd pale to think of blood,
I had the honour-and in sixty-three,

(A cloudless period, from commotion free)
I also had the honour to sustain

A post of honour, and a post of gain-
Post-Office first-then Commissariate,
As good a chance as any in the state—
For in the first, I frank'd my numerous letters,
And in the last I learn'd to cheat my betters.
Alas! how swiftly flew this age of gold!
Surpassing that by fabling poets told ;

To me more dear the storms of Kingly sway,
Than the clear sun-beams of fair Freedom's day.
But thirdly during this same happy time,
When writing letters was not deem'd a crime,
When no committees prowl'd the streets around,
And whigs and tories no existence found,
It also was my honour'd lot to spend
A leisure hour in writing to a friend.
To every gentleman of any note,
By every opportunity I wrote-
I'll tell you every gentleman of note,
To whom each opportunity I wrote.
Sir William Johnson, Baronet, was one,
A jovial prig, who liv'd on Indian fun;
Hugh Finlay, of Quebec, Esquire, another;
And next Sir John, Sir William's son, or brother;
'Squire Alexander Wallace, and 'squire Hugh,
Both as fine blades as ever wore a shoe ;

And then with all those typographic fellows—
With Mills and Hicks, with Goddard, Hall and Sel-
lers,

With Jemmy Rivington, and Robert Bell,

Old Holt, Hugh Gaine, Tim Green, and Edes and Gill,

Good deacon L-, that puritanic fidge,

And "Ebenezer Watson, near the bridge.'

From men like these and books almost as good,

The turtle-fat of intellectual food,

I think my knowledge is so sturdy grown,
That I at length may dare to make it known,

And now declare it to be my intent,

To teach the children of the country gent-
Those little shabby lads, who ne'er before
Stray'd half a mile beyond their father's door;
Give them to know the world as well as me,
And doff their hats to every man they see;
Thus by good fortune they may hope in time,
Up to the top of my renown to climb-
Say half a dozen awkward boys, between
The sprightly years of twelve, and wild fifteen
That blooming season when they first begin
To shew the fruits of father Adam's sin:
That sin, bequeath'd in true paternal grace,
A loving legacy to all his race,

And though we still the inheritance divide,
Yet
every one is fully satisfied;

And what is seldom seen in such affairs,

Nor suits nor bickerings disturb the heirs.

For though 'tis said Cain broke poor Abel's pate,
To rob his children of their just estate;
Yet since that day we find no eldest son,
Who claims a double portion for his own.-
Near this great city will my school be plac'd,
A monument of judgment, and of taste;
For health selected-long I search'd around,
At length a spot to suit my mind I found.
Near that white wall which rears its form on high,
Where cold in death the sons of Israel lie,
Forgot each wonted care, the thirst of gain,
The wish of pleasure, and the dread of pain;