From the Ne,o- York Enquirer.
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Full surely, man may be defined lec- turing animal. Of all the modern ways devised to raise the wind and keep the starving fiend away, there is nothing now like featuring. Fancy Balls are given, at five dollars ticket, patriotic dinners at three dollars a head, benefit concerts at double price for admission, and "all that sort of thing," till the public begin to un- derstand the thing pretty well and fanat- icism. folly, impudence, and insanity, arc driven to variation by the means, and obliged to resort to other methods of sleight (ofhand or tongue) for transferring money from the pockets of the gullees to that of the guller.

 Poor John Gloves Symmes lectured him self out of his wit and money, about the caverns of the earth, subsisted on charity awhile, and got home safe at last, after pretty much curing the public of his theory. His pupil, Capt. Reynolds, made out much better.

 Then comes Robert Owen, and lec- lures about, till he gets tens of thousands of dollars out of the enthusiasts, by his speculations at New-Harmony. The Ha- verstraw settlement of lecturers was ofless profitable result and shorter date and oth- CT commonwealth systems fare but little better than some of our Wall-street joint stock concerns.''

 Even poor Joseph Lansaster, with all the merit of his land Bcil's) system of monitorial instruction, returns from lcctnr- ing the republics of South America, in beggary, and solicits public charity openly, without undertaking to lecture for it. And my friend Capt. X. Y. as often as the fourth of 5uly comes round ,levies contri- button on the liberality of his acquain- tance, and sympathy of the public, by re- beating his poor thread-bare and worn-out i" patriotic address on the occasion"

 Lastly, Frances Wright brings her stock of" knowledge" from the stores of Owen, Maciure, Goodwin, Hume. Bolingbroke, &c. and deals it out in lectures to inc wondering multitude, ever gaping for some- thing new. She costs the Gothamftes a double tax, in a female antagonist, Ca cheap lccturer,) who combats her like