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London, England, 1821-04-28 00:00:00

- D 1,232,908
- 201,439 41

Aggregate amount of permanent Funds

1,434,347 41

Amounts of grants to the Regts. of the University 28,750
Amount of grants to Colleges . - 721,575
Amount of grant to Historical Society - . 12,000
AmoUnt of grants to Academics . - - 31,6,000
Amount of grants to Charitable and Free Schools 25,631 56
Amount appropriated to State Library - 5,100

Aarregate amount of occasional appropriations D 1,189,056 56
Making in the whole the sum of - 1)2,623,403 97

And if to this be added the value of the escheated landi, and
of the proportion of Clerks's fees belonging to the School Fund,
together with the value of the unappropriated literature and
school lots in the military tract, the general aggregate of ap-
propriations for the support of education and learning in this
State, during the last 30 years, exclusive of the annual revenue
of the permanent funds, wilfexceed the sum of three millions
of Dollars.. I am, Sir, your obeclimt servant, •
Albany. - W. A. D.

every one who heard hitn on this and the few other oeusions
on which he spoke in a Court of Justice, was convinced that he
was peculiarly suited to the profession in which he had engage
ed, He passed-the Aututrin with his Mother at annon
sent, (where I joined him for some time,) send in visiting
,his.
friends, till he was called to London by the beginning of .seta_,
in the early part of November.--Since I wrote the above, I have
been favoured with the following communications feoin a gen.,
tieman, who was many years a Member.of the Mame of Coin
mons, and now holds an honourable station in" Old. Court. of
Chancery ; he was very intimate with Mr. Pitt on the 'Western.
Circuit, and afterwards, till they were separated in
difference of political opinions:—" Among lively men of his
own time of life, Mr. Pitt was always the.most lively and con-
vivial in the many hours of leisure which, occur to young un—
occupied men on a circuit, and joinedali the little excursions
to Southampton, Weymouth; and such parties olsonusemot.
as were habitually formed. He was extremely popular. gi3
name and reputation of high acquirements at. the Pniver.sity,
commanded the attention ofhis Seniors. Hiswit,his good humour,-
and joyous manners, endeared him to the younger pan of.-..the:
bar. In some bribery causes from Cricklade, he was retained
as junior counsel ; but even in that subordinate nharatter; he
had an opportunity of arguing a point of evidence with extra-
ordinary ability. I remember also, in an action of- Ciiin-con.
at Exeter, as junior counsel, he mainifested such talenti in
cross-examination, that it was the universal opinion of the-bar,
that he should have led the cause. During his sTiort stay in
the profession, he never had occasion to address a Jury ; but
upson a motion in the Court of King's Bencholor an Habeas
Corpus to bring up a man to be bailed, who was charged '.with
murder, Mr. Pitt made a speech which excited the achniration
of the bar, and drew down very complimentary approbation
from Lord Mansfield. When he first made his hrilliant.dis...
play in Parliament, those at the bar who had seen little of him,
expressed surprise ; but a few who had once heard him speak
in a sort of mock debate at the Crown and Anchor Tavern,
when a club, called the Western Circuit Club, was dissolvdd,
agreed, that he had then displayed all the various species of
eloquence, for which he was afterwards celebrated. Before he
distinguished himself in the House of Commons, he certainly
looked seriously to the law as a profession. The late Mr. .
tice Rooke told me, that Mr. Pitt dangled seven days with
a junior brief, and, a single guinea fee, waiting till
a cause of no sort of importance should ~come on in the Court'
of Common Pleas. At Mr. Pitt's instance, an annual dinner
took place for some years at Richmond Hill, the party consis!-
ing of Lord Erskine, Lord Redesdale, Sir William Grant, Mr.
Bond, Mr. Ley tester, Mr. Jekyll, and others ; and I Well re-
member a dinner with Mr. Pitt, and several of his private
friends, at the Boar's Head in East Cheap, in celebration of
Shakspeare's Falstaff. We were all in high spirits, quoting
and alluding to Shakspeare the whole day ; and it appeared,
that Mr. Pitt was as well and, familiarly read in the Port's
works as the best Shaksperiaiis present. But ,to speak s
conviviality is needless. After he was Minister, he could eon.,
tinue to ask his old intimates to dine with him, and his manners
were unaltered-7