The Sun.
London, England, 1825-04-12 00:00:00

POST COACHES.

MAN'CHEST‘FR NeSv Light Pest Coach, The Regulator,
through Llunstii hle,,Wob-urn, Newport, Not‘thatuptors, I:4llt-
borough, :Leicis ter, LotighladrOugh, Derby, Ashbourne and
Buitbn, at a qitarter before *o'clock.
HOLYHEAD ; 'esv Light Post Coaches,. through Birining-
\
barn, Waver Vim! ton; Shiffnal, Shrewsbury, Oswestry,. Cur-
wen, and Bang-or, very Morning at half post 5, and Evening
at a quarter before ;5 o'clock. - '
GLASGOW And .t DINBURGH Post Coach, The Defiance,
through goncliciterl, Gatstang, Kendal, Carlisle, Annan and
Dumfries; al 5-.24:talk. • - - ---o ;., - -
..
SOUTHAMPTON Light Coach, through Staines, Hartford
Bridge, Basingstoke and Winchester, every Morning 'at half
past
LIVERPOOL Light Post Coach, The Royal. Champion,
(in 28 hours, and driv,tn through by Four Coaehtnen only),
through Stoney Stratfo td, COventt:4 Lichfield, Stone and
Congleton, every Day at 4 o'clock.
WINDSOR. and ETOr g Coaches daily.
MANCHESTER Royal. Defiance, (in 24 hours), through
Dunstable, Northampton,. Hakborough, Leicester; t avemlish
Bridge, Derby, As!hbour tie, :Leek, Macclesfield and Stockt
port, every Day at ',5.
EXETER New Light-F.Dui-inside Post Coach, The P.M
or, (w
1-
latith a Guard, and coot; One 'Night only), through .
Ba-
singstoke; Overton,! Andover, Salisbury, ,Blandford, Dorches-
ter, Brniport,- Axminster, 'and Honiton, every -Day at 9.
o'clock. Passertrers travelli yg by this conveyance proceeds
without delay ao Plymouth and Falmoutb.
EDINBURGH and GLASGOW New Post Coach, The
Chant pion,.through Newcastle, Lancaster, Kendal, Carlisle
and Dumfries, at 4 o'clock.
• BRISTOL Regent Post Coach, through Reading, Newbury,
Marlborough and Bath, every Afternoon at a quarter. before
o'clock. • •
• • BIRMINGHAM Light Post Coach, The Ba loon, through
Stoney Stratford, Daventry, Coventry and Stone Bridge,
every Afternoon at half past 4.-
FALMOUTH and -PLYMOUTH Light Post Coaches, every.
Afternoon•at 2 o'clock.
WEYMOUTH and DORCHESTER Magnet Day Coach,
in•ls hours, at 5 every Morning, and from the Gloucester
Coffee- house. Piccadilly, at S.
COVENTRY Light Fonti'intide Post Coach, every Afte-
rnoon, at a quarter before 6. •
The Prince Cebuurg to MANCHESTER through Coven-
try, Atlierst,oe, Tantworth, Lichfield, Stone, Newcastle and
Congleton, every Day At 4 o'clock.
NOTTINUHAM ' New Light Post Coach, (in 18 hours),
through St. Alban'sx Dunstable, Woburn, Newport Pagnel,
Market Harborough, Leicester and Loughborough, at 3
o'clock in the Afternoon. •
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CARLISLE, GLASGOW, and EDINBURGH, Four-iaside
Coaches, Daily at 2 and s:o'clock.
CHESTER and PARK GATE New Coach, every After-
noon at CI, and Morning at 6 o'clock.
WORCESTER Coaches, through Oxford, Chipping. Nor-
ton, Perslmre, and Broadway,- every Morning at 6.
• WARWICK and LEAMINGTON SPA Post Coach, every
Evening at 5 o'clock.
TAM WORTH, ATHERSTONE, and HINCKLEY Coaab,
every Day at 4 o'clock.
:•DERP.'I New. Light Post Coach, The Regulator, (in IR
hours), through Northampton, Market Harborough and Lei
eer, erery Day at .3.
New Light,'Fou'r.inside Post Coach to DUDLEY and
STOURBRIDGE, every Afternoon at 5 o'clock.
DOVER -Union Coaches, through Rochester, Chatham,
CanterhoiiY, Margate and Ramsgate, at half pass. 7 and 11
o'clock every Mi>riiing, and half past 6 in the Evening.
• PARIS New I,i;-lit Diligence, by way Of Dover, every
Morning at 7. ai:d half past 6 Evening.
TAUNTON, through Cross to Bridgewater, every After-
noon at half pest .3 o'clock, at redticed Fares.
BIRMINGHANI Light Post Coach, The Courier, through
OXford, Shiptoo, Stratford-on-Avon and Henley Arden,
every Morning at t,aff past 5.
cHELTEN lEAMM and GLOUCESTER Light Nast Coach,
carries 4 Inside, through Oxford, every Morning at 6.
• ROYSTON and IWNTINGFORD Post Coach,
noon at half past 2 o'clock, to the George,B • f d and
unting or ,
Crown Inn, Royston!every After-

_ .
New Safety Times Post. Coach to NORWICH, On 14
hours), driven through by one Coachman only, at 5 in the
Morning.
UANIBRIDGE, Tally Ho ! Past Coact), in 5 hours, at
wllf past 2 o'clock every Afternoon, and from. the Flower-
pot, Bishopsgate-street, at a quarter before 3.
CANTER'S-Urn Fast Coach, The Tally Hu ! every After-
ilol,ll, at, half past s, in 7-hours.
CRIGHTON Coaches, at half past 8, and half past 10
).'clock every Morning.
is and Lugg:).ge conveyed daisytoall Parts of the
N(
every CAI and Manufatturing Town in the
ERHOUSE'aiId Co. Proprietors.
L.);;Adoni. *.litali , P
ant c TO

1.4.1. The rroprietcrs of the above Carriages beg leave to
will not he accountable for any
iltaarocrelt
etlriepPilliiitai'g'e ti,l:llaartteh,veeyrPfor for any Passenger's Lug-
secordinglY at the time of • the delirtry of any such
age above the value of .. unless the same he entered and
package, ov Passenger's Luggage, to them or their
Pared,
A t Goods insltred ate moderate Rate.
-gen.s.—
pgaid for

INSTALLATION of H. BROUG HAM, ESQ.
A 8 LORD /LECTOR 01' THE UNIVERSITY OF GI,AeGOLY.

'i GLASGOW, APRIL 6.
The Very Reverend Principal MiFarlan having
stated that, in agreement with the statutes of the University,
the election of Mr. Brougham had been made known to that
Gentleman, and that he had accepted the office of Lord Rector,
then proceeded to administer the oath of office : after which
Mr. 13rougharn thus addrestecl his very numerous audience :
" It now becomes me to return my sincere and respectful
thanks for my election to an office which has been filled by so
many great men, whose merits might make any comparison
formidable even to a more worthy successor. Whilst I desire
you to accept of these thanks, excuse the address and the form
which I now adopt, which I think better than any unpreme-
ditated discourse, because my remarks will more certainly
appear to be the fruit of mature deliberation, and that 1 may
not be supposed to discharge an important office in a perfunc-
tory manner. 1 feel very sensibly, if I urge you to be intent
on the pursuit of learning, which flourishes under the kindly
shelter of these roofs, that I may weary my youthful audience;
and, if I give my advice, I may seem to trespass on the pro-
vince of those very able and learned persons under whose care
you have the happiness to be placed. But 1 would nevertheless
expose myself to the .charge for the sake of joining my voice
with theirs in entreating you to believe how incomparably the
present season is the nest precious of your whole lives. This
is not the less true, because it is often inculcated on you that
the period of youth is by far the best fitted for the improve.
client of the mind. In the retirement of a college you have an
opportunity of laying the foundation of whatever is noble or
excellent: .Now every thing has the attractive power of novelty--
attention is sharpened by curiosity, and the memory is suec_ep-
tible:of deep impressions, to a degree unknown in future life.
For the distracting cares of the world cross not the threshold of
these calm retreats e its distant cries and. bustle are hut faintly
heard ; .the struggles of parties ere viewed afar off, and the
prospect is rendered more soft by the scenes of beauty which
are below. Yet a little while, and you will be plunged into
these bitter waters ; then you will look back on the peaceful
regions you have quitted for ever. ,But it will be to your own
fault if you look back with a feeling of repentance or shame,
Every hour squandered here in unprofitable delay will
then rise up against you, and be the cause of bitter regret.-..-
I wish that I could hereech you so to store your minds with the
exquisite learning of loemer ages, that you may pone, within
yourselves the sources of _rational and refined enjoyment, which
will enable you to mt. at.nought the pleasures of sense, and
thoornimlinbgueyyoouurtoselvveishwuiothuathheasohiutsziclthapthiylooeou
ritzy
of later days,
ay
look down On
walk unhurt
pt, as did the eage of old
time—but with the desire of enlightening the ignorant, by so
13suwpitehrewilihoiuchs contempt, as "4
may
yeel, your attention is directed
ethrrorrou_ghnotthewtiriath
much the .more endeared as _they want, your iestruction. As-
and n.dotY, as fiir as itmnediate
stinting the improvement of hie own mind to be, the end of every
mates existence, who is removed above the deity care of pre-
wanes leave 1m
such work may be , to
means by which a performed; but nettle
the.
ednslueeunteneatnnepela,
time of this discourse these can occupy only a small
man's
for his own
limited
portion
of cur consideration. There are two subjects on which
1 woUki.MaK ,c a few; observations eetv,.obeervations connected with the study of
the rhetorical ast, by which useful truths are proniulgated with
also with the purposes to w ..
itil tale Practice of
this
effect, and
Tient. It_is a corturiou error among young
art should: be subser
painful study of ancient a . I - persons to turn from
satisfythe,eeP•-nselves with works, bt"thaet
ttiac . c o 1.. n
position, and to ...--'
___itAereel pleasanter anti more IleeeHiliny.
rity of their mothee tongue re
that as powerful dictioe -afterll '' •
contend,
.: • -. •.. F. la e the
They plausibly , study' of the best artglise„tiodei af-
fordsobject to be attained, the
,admitting
the
sheivit3
to
be
the
the shortest road ; and, ow

gceat:fountains of -elequerwe in composition,..,they wo, id realm
protit by: the labours of English translators, end, taking the,
most accurate of these as a standard, would give thernselvesi
eo -care about the immortal originals. This aegu meaty the.
thin covering of indolence, would speedily sink the Sae acne!
into barrenness and insignifireaace.. Why should e.sculptoe uur
?Aimee. journey to Athena or Rome ? • Might he notprofit by
the labours of those at .home ? Be assured that the Reese -
chisel falls not more short of the .wonders of the Acropolis,,.
than the. productions of modern. pens fail short of the chaste:
end vigorous eloquence that re6isdaisly- futruinod over. Greece,.
Be fully assured that the greatest w0r1.91 of poetry and eke..
auence have been done by those who cultivated most:
gently the examples of Athonienexcellewe, Among poets there.
is hardly an exception to this rule, unlesse‘Thakspeare, oecep-
-tioe to all rules, he taken ; and Dente, familiarly acqoaleted
with the best works of his owu country. But among the Ora-
tors, know not of an exception. Cicero so honoured the Greek
masters of eloquence, that he not only repaired to Athens to
finish his 'education there., but continued the practice for many
years of declaiming in Greek. And thougd- he fell into a more
corrupt-Meow end style then introduced by Asienfeellions,
yet- he ever extols the noble perfection of his first masters, and,
even at a late period of his • life,•he employed himself in trensla.
tions from the Greek. orators. From the immorte speech •of
DemOsthenes on the Crown, he sonietirnes copies even to the very
'letter. And in the Roman orator may be found the peseage
in which lEschines describes the torments reserved for the guilty
in a future state--(see Orations ageinst
.14ecitte Vise). 1 have
dwelt on the practice of Cicero, because it enables us to answer
:the question whether the study, of Roman authors is not enough
TO refine our style ? He-either fell short fa copying theme or,
misled by admiration of embellishment, or adopting the false
Inoileht of the Asian school, weakened his style f eloquence.,
i•Veslitialti not, by imitating. the same but ;bee Rerfect ori-
ginal, copy his faults; for thus, to a commanding and • noble
beauty; we should prefer . the image of some gairish damsel, re.
fleeted from a mirror, which,: if it distorts not the- leatureei
weakens the hrilliancyof her_ natural tints. But there are other
reasons which justify the serne observations, grounded on. the
beenty and power of the- Greek languitge. The compositions
of Cicero, exquisite as they are for diction and style, are n.,;ver-
theless so extremely oratorical, that nothing carne less- adapted
to the genius of modern eloquence. Nearly all the orations of
Marcus- Tullius.are of this nature. Hardly two passages can
be found which would bear to be repeated to a modern audi.
ence. Passages on the merits of the case, and in defenee of the
charge, or in mitigation of punishment, might be used, or whe.
thee we read his political or • forensic orations, the style of rea.
stoning and ornament is wholly unfitted foe the more severe and
less trifling eloquence ofmodeen times. But it is altogether dif-
ferent with the Grecian orators ; for, by softening the invectives
so as better to suite the chivalry of modern hostility, there is
hardly any political or forensic oration of the Greeks that might
not be delivered before a modern assembly. Their panegyrics
are far less inflated than those of the French preachers and
academicians. There is this difference between the Greeks
ande Roman orators—the former never speaks for .the
sake of speaking ; but the latter seems- ever . and anon
to lose sight of the subject-matter, and to adorn and embel-
lish. He tickles the ear. without reaching the heart. For in
all the orations of Cicero end Livy, where shall -be found that
quick succession of short questions, by which Demosthenes
groups, as it• were,. the whole subject in a few sentences ? But .
though the more business-like manner of modern debate ap-
proachmach nearer the Greek eloquence, it rnwst be admitted
that it falls short in. the chnvmesa. of the. argument; for the
Roman orator has his speech parcelled out into divisions.—
Now, says he, I 'am *signing to rouse• your passions.;
and now I will amuse your fancy ; and now I mean to
convince your understanding. But in all the divisions, the
Greek makes the figures an integral: part of the reasoning.--
In the most pathetic part of one of his orations, Demosthenes,
after introducing- a most -eloquent passage, instantly, not
abruptly, returns into the midst of the malt' argument, with
the whole of his.powers, spewing that the merits of public set-
stints, not their success, should be the standard by which they;
ought to be judged. There runs through the whole speech the: •
most admirable ease; and with the same ease does Virgil, in
the Georgics, make a transition, where, in the midst of,thei
description of a fight, the-magician strikes hiS wand in' the field
of battle, and helmets are cast abroad, where suddenly. a !One
hushapdnmn is reuresented to us as turning pp the earth, and
driving his plough, among helmets rusted over 'end- the bones
of mighty ment— •
• " Scilicet et tempus veneit corn finibus illis
Agricola, incurvo terram meatus aratro,
Exe,:a inveniet scabra rubigine pile
Aut gravibus rastris geleas pulsabit manes,
Grandiuque efresis mirabitur ossasepolchris." •

((Icor.. I. 4n3-7.)
But if a further reason is required, we may find it in the greater
diversity and importance of the subjects on which they speak.
Besides a number of orations merely forensic, we have all the
subjects of state politica. Conipare Demosthenes With Cicero
ininiti2iili tnne a,nj arrad tg -
o thee
in alit respect, and the contrast will be striking. For this peir-
POTD. esee
o theth e n orations
aavge4 n atot C o
nta.on mat.
tern strictly' plivate, and many on interesting topics; but many
invaluable considerations of state policy, its .in the Oration
against rEschines on the uvn, and the Phillipnics. In these
he discusses every question of foreign' politica. These speeches
were delivered on subjects the most important and affecting to
the tvliole cornmonivealtti. . These topics were of •universal ap-
plication. The Latin orator must keep a middle course of arga-
nient, but the Athenian can hardly hold too lofty a tone, or
carry his views too extensively over the field of human freedom.
After chastening the taste, it is .nceessnry to acquire correct ha-
bits of writing in our own language, first by original cor iposi-
.
tion, and next be frequent translation. The best English writers.
are those which Ilourisbed-faern the time of Elizabeth to that of
Queen Anne. They used a good Saxon dialect, arid were learned
in the ancient classics, without overloading the style of prose
with a pedantic coining of foreign \cords. These great writers
had no foreknowledge that other writers would succeed them,
whose styles should be •meeetticionsly ornamented. mote than
half French in the diction, heavily inflated, rneasuted by the eye, •
not judged by the ear, with an endless profusion of ancient words •
and phrases, confusedly.mixed with our own Saxon.. Least
of all ditttliey,imagine that men would professno teach own-
position who were ignorant of its rules. Tire preachers of the
Augustan age of the English Church are among.the Chief or
these great welters. But do not imagine that I would pass over
numerous faults. None united force with beauty. And to one
charge all are exposed.--a fault unknown in ancient times. They
always overdid, never knowing when they had said enough. •
Among the 13r-2eks a single phrase, was used,,often a word, and
the work was done. The desired impression is made by a single
stroke. Nothirig superficial is admitted. The, comnianding
idea is singled out ; and as the Emperor. Napoleon selected
one point in the centre of the adverse army, and brought all his
newer to bear on that alone, knowinn than it he succee_ded in
this. all other thinfp would follow us natural crinseque.nces,
n and
ep
while a failnre then left all else uniMpottaut, so the Grecian
tTaian,eB..tlnd as yet unsh alt- ortance.
places of no importance.
orator dwell with.all his collected energy OR the most important
ergutnent. Put modern writers resemble those campaigner*
aw.n,hed6 fit
n u which,ut
tt
eit
mtw
' re
p atnei tne. y
e t1e.,1.
Theyl)eeaitioe
sett sible irnpressiori. It sterns .the principle Of sue:: writeXs
dthdneisyn uide their forces, grid mite
no
never to leave any thing unsaid that eon be said. T•er.sy run
down every idea which they siart. Compare with these the
mental severity of ardent eloquence, or. of 31iitan, who ap.
preached near to it, or of Dante Ivho appeoachetl'atill nearer ;
mark his severe simplicity-in the most touching part of one..nf
his odes. [Here Brnaghean introduced a numbee of
quotritintia.l: D.it,L, approaches neareit„ u his finest paisenes,
to Dernteineeties. lri h,itit . you rarely find an cpithe' t ;
hardly trio; e than one, and' never rotere ti• an two. In forming
the tance. by frequent 'corn_.emplatien of chow models, andin acquiring the habits of, ci,us...t,e composition, all the :alien;
will Le amply recompensed: 1- or the Illaq who hes done this
niey inch venture his fay in the public assembly. he
will
have acquired the Powe.7 of easy 'heal sing, ay well „„ of eats
writing. I should lay it down as a rule, that the man will
spean 1, a•eti who. has written muel, w ith great tare. Though
V speak linen win from natural talent
.t.y and well,
this-with an
say k an
with prepay they woultlnnt have reached
c• •
' • The excellence of th • a ?rester ireig.it of excenence
for the is t le best
prito.:iplehere implied, or the evidences of their
prno
e innumrable. In D
preynrritinn are
cm Demosthenes we can
trace how rncely lec polished his..
..ppositton, dila being Cleer
from three ,i.us...gcs
particulnts delivered at differeet times,
but Met. the marks
site unproYeTcnt are The,e
-en id eVre 2.P.Cahltig deriv d
no dn4ht, c "` d adaptinfrom the
tionnippi.:aranee of rat, au.
ita itself to Is
1-e.occenion.
That iv Lich is: .inspired • • faena-en'el.arnstarices wit' be
au itei to: those circumstances. These re ksoits of itnloottane.
It is nirriCalt tte avoid exhausting ?Nand. IyAttel, of. the
pleasure of extempore spearing s'OPens's on the h sure

prise:, and on sentiments being delivered et ail, than Orel
thing very. excelitnt ihaa been.'dcgivertete The. art cast
tee attained by hint who: well. considers. 'anti utletirese
Oaught,• and ftfitie3 lilt compasition, saf.4l preparsinei
quite consistent • with the: introduction -Of paesages‘stigr;ottir,l'
eft the:ttiont en t. 'Nor will' lite? (transition frozen me to-a:tonne
lee. perceptible. I have knovianktifel hearers elecer edei :tee
• wuy, who -have talten-for extempore spenkingnhat whieinpres
tionsiej exist in tnimusexipt. Thus -we areetold '4,%1'.-nia;
that having to 'Make a speech to Porapty'after Crass:et • lee
greatly- excelled tieing assfs teel by-the rent em bran ce wedeln ;
treductinn of -bass ;era. which he had before prepitred note chi:.
ferent .purposes. -if now, 'from: contemplating-the -roans ,we
. turn-to the noble purposes of ehq Uen ce, we-find-that:the gruel te-,.•:
• masters birdie art have -concurred in this point, 7 and Fon ou n net
one opinion on the-use. of alit; 'Study. th eat- sentimen tn. lie
engraven on our memory. '/Ittis not the diction of the orator; 114 e.
the music of his' voice,- b his att4?-redneas so the good of
of mankind, that determines the:that-ismer minds J
the beet praise of titearti ttat it .poiritaatit how sacred truth en ter.
be most widely .pramulgtited, duecause,of persecutedinneCeiv,..-'.*
best defended,' the march of wicked rulers tretsttriitinphanui!
opposed, how defiance may be hurled.nnthe prosecutee'llieade
hew toguide men in the Inidenothpuhlic.oonvulsions,. ten4tenv
bring about salutary changes. In kunit circumstances law.
portant • and powerful must eloqUence. be 1 But tit ptliceitti
times, when the progrene of events is slow, and-the tun:in:nom
be heard no longer, then -too she flourishes protectress of liberty
patroness of improvement, guardia-i. of all the bit,iSlnes- that
can be showered on the mass of humankind, .nor ever
she seen but in teerhing some grand lesson •to men.. Te
me, calmly revolving these thin s, such pursuits seem „vino
noble than any which the vulgar heed of bass siren
prodigally.- To communicate weft) information—to. fu
intellectual refinement—to hasten the confine of that stein:
day when the dawn of general knowledge shah' chase. away tan
lazy mists, even from the base of the, great social pram
is a high station to which rnaa cats •be-raised, and in which th
most splendid talents may well press onward to bear a pan.
1-know that I-speak in a place consecrated by the -pious wise
dour of ancient-times to the instruction of youth.-. yet from this
classic ground have gone forth those, who, by their genius, not
by their ancestry, have been ennobled, and whose illustrious ex..
ample has made the humblest- emulous to climb the arderins
steeps, and-enter these gates that are burning -with the sun.--,
Where Black taught and Watt learned the principles .of ecience,
thegrand experiment was made to administer to the highest
intellectual cultivation that is compatible with the daily toile of
man, and to. promote a keen relish for the most sublime truths
that belong equally to all classes of the human race. To the
cultivation of. the most important sciences men of:, talen ts are
pressing-forward teem every part of the empire. Butel wen;
the same course to be pursued by men of. higher station and
weight, and by men of highest .rank.—Our object should be
to extend the bounds of science, by the ejscovery of new truths,
or by-new modes.of application. Thus the number of scientitie
men will be increased, and more Watts and Franklins will crisc,
and, appearing among these working classes to which Wen and
Franklin once belonged, have their thought-turned to philosophy.
'The inventors of new arts will be seen more .numerous, ene.the
material difference wilt be that the mass of the-ignorant :
em
tulle being diminished,
ailekt:myn:lo4:rce„veota:bhrti
idue;o:stbtoialoybietldi,icii:eiojia:losrtnles'hdoaoectudfilt
otlsmsisei_caooniiesfet former
sientliripoissefeia
rsghz
.deotawe:Ta:ereis;
never
;eal d:eoioi
rift-).
0 t
dfofnii*st for
sciencee.eadnrere.lly.stsahalleaaut
rign: r
lenmuw
extensiond,r eeaAnklvsyton statesmen
t,haiwa4entla.
,entn3d.
d.
ly
promoted turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the fore.
runner of liberality and enlightened toleration. ,ffewho dreads
the light of , truth cannot resist its power. • For heernay be
well assured 'that the day is at length come, which must -put
to flight the evil spirit of tyranny and persecution. As men
wilt no longersnffer. thenneelven to he led into darkriewn
. they no more yield no the evil principle-of judging their
men not according to the merits of„their aetions::i but tile articles
of their creed. The great . truth has gone • forth into; all
bounds of the earth, that man shall no raneß render acentint to
man -for his belief, over which he has himself no coniseel.
henceforward nothing shall prevail on us to praise or to blame
a man for that which he can no more. change than he can the
hue of his skin, or the height of his stature. , Treating with
respect those who differ from us, the only practical effect cf the
difference will be, to cause us to enlighten the ignoranne fron.
which it springs, by teaching them if they arc wrong, bynnt-
: proving ourselves it' we are right, that the only kind of content
may .be to produce the agreement proceeding from full corn
ie-
tion after the fairest discussion. Then every- fear for the urneere
nal spread of knowledge will he.removed, and truth and .virtue
will watch over the peace of the country.; the sureeffeet will
be the removal of the only danger that threatens public _tray_
quillity and the confirmation of the liberties of our native-hind.
For those tyrants who have shed the bleed of mankind- to ex-
. tend their empire, anti who instinctively' hate the light, ,let
them tremble. Let me then indulge in the hope that, among the
illustrious youths who edam this ancient College, famed for its -
useful learning, there easy be found :some one, I ask- non:ern,
willing to give it bright example to his nation, by taking the
lead of his tnilows, not in frivolous arous.emenneenot it: triflink•
studies—but in the truly .noble task of enlightening :the,grtiat.
mass of his countrymen ; and of baying ;his own name :.eti•••
circled with honours Most wenhy of our :rational nature,- anti
pronounced with rapture by millions whom his beneficence-tine
raised from ignorance and vice. Thin is-the treemerk
who prize the enjoyment of lasting tiappiness, or set a value
on a high and unsullied renown. And if the benefactors of mite.
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fromy a ts. aher ierly a piousreward,
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down. on the blessings with which their toils and suffering:4 haie
clothed the scenes of . their termer existence, do not vainly
imagine that in a state of purity and wisdom it will be the
founders of mighty dynasties, or the mean followers of tyrant:l, -
who have sacrificed to their own aggrandizement the Coon of
countless multitudes, that will be thus gratified.. Theirs vnii
be-the praise and the triumph, who can true the effee: 51 of then,'
beneficence in the improved condition of their species, rid.e3tat;
in the reflection, that by their deeds joy beamed- from the eyes
of the sorrowful. The lovers of truth lied virtue, trampling
under foot tyranny, and driving ignoeence frown the worltl,:shall
reap the precious, though costlye fruit of their labouren a re_.
compense for long enduring all the hardehine And tn'a,ard.s.they
encountered here below.,-(Grent cheering.) e .