The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-11-27 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

try, t heiloyal Fe wily were so confident of the inte-
grity of their conduct, as to, be anxious to diffuse
among the people the means of forming a judgment
on it. [Applause.) As he was friendly to the ob-
ject of the Society, so he thought the means employ.
ed were the most wise, the most consistent, and the
most benevolent.—The principles of the Society were
those of liberty and freedom of religion (he did not
like the word toleration). [Applause.] This princi-
ple involed tin enmity to those who worked on a
narrower scale. The British and Foreign School
Society had no wish to make proselytes to sect,
party, or opinion. Its liberal aim was to afford to
all mankind the means of forming opinions for them-
selves. [Applause.] The Noble Lord concluded by
seconding the Resolutions ; which was put and car-
ried unanimously.
The Duke of KENT rose to return thanks. He
had hoped that his Illustrious Relative who was men-
tioned in the vote would have, been enabled to have
returned their joint acknowledgments for the thanks-
of the Meeting ; but he had been recently attacked
with the severe malady' to which he was at this sea.
son of the year subject. Ile should therefore in his
same, and his own, return thanks to the Meeting for
its approbation. In any thing he, with his Illus.
trious Relative, had done, they performed but their
duty, and conferred no favour • had they done
otherwise, it would have been a dereliction of their
duty, impressed as they were with the importance of
general instruction. As illusion had been made to
the Prince Regent, he was far from arrogating the
Night of ackeowledging the vote in his name ; but
unless that illustrious Person was much altered from
what he had been in .casly life, no one could feel
More warmly the necessity of giving support to
such en institution as the present : and to the go-
ierat diffusion of knowledge, without hampering
persons as to their religious opinions—[Applause.].—
As he was on his legs, he should propose another
Resolution. Though it was rather embarrassing to
speak in favour of a friend who at the time was pre-
sent, yet in proposing a Vote of Thanks to the Noble
Chairman, it was imposiible to speak too highly of
his services to the Society.—[Applause.]—To his 1
early and distinguished patronage perhaps they owed
their existence as a society ; and as they had to lament
the absence of a most distinguished friend now se-
parated from the Society for ever, so might they hail
the return of that Noble Chairman whose upright
character and expanded mind had always been dis-
played, whether at home or Amid, in the cause and
for the' interest of the Society. Ile concluded by
mosinA the Thanks of the Meeting to the Duke of
Bedford.
Mr. Wtzttaws seconded the Resolution, which
was put by the Duke of Kent, and carried unani-
more.l) all the Ladies present rising.
The Dike of BEDFORD returned thanks, and said
that the Society were by no means indebted to him.—
Accident had led him to the Borough School, and in
supporting the system of education which he there
saw, he followed the impulse of his own mind. lle
WaS most happy, after a long absence, to meet such
a respectable assembly in the cause of universal in-
struction, for wherever he had been he had found ig-
norance the parent of vice and crimes, uniformly
prevented by nothing so much as by the progress of
knowledge. The Society, he was happy to observe,
was gradually growing to maturity ; it was supported
by the best and wisest men in the country, and the
active and unifbrm zeal of the Royal Duke then pre-
sent, and his illustrious brother; were sure pledges
of the final success of the Institution. They had,
indeed, sustained a great and irreparable loss. He
was one of those who best knew, and therefore most
loved, him whom they all lamented. He was, there-
fore, able to appreciate his zeal and exertions in fa-
vour of that Society and of society in general—to in-
culcate philanthropy was his daily and hourly pur-
suit, and especially in the country in which he re-
sided his loss was daily and hourly felt. [Applause.]
They should endeavour to supply his loss hy adding
to their energies, and by private as well as public
personal exertions among, their relatives and friends,
strive to extend to the poorer classes the blessings of
education. [Applause.]
The Rev. J. iluGuEs moved the thanks of the
meeting to the Vice-Presidents.
The Rev. Dr. NV AUOU seconded the resolution, and
made some forcible observations on the idle prejudices
against the diffusion of knowledge, which he illus-
trated by the story of a German mold', Conrad Ber-
ner, who, about the time of the Reformation, told the
people in a sermon, that Luther and some ill-disposed
fellows had newly invented a language called Greek,
in which they had produced a book called the Gos-
pels, which was a book full r f daggers and poison.
lie also told them that any man who learnt Hebrew
became immediately an ideut and a Jew [A laugh].
When an edition of Newton's Principle was published
by the Jesuits with commentaries, these commenta-
tors observed, that though for the sake of illustrat-
ing the author's doctrines they were obliged seem-
ingly to ackoowledge the earth's motion, yet they
solemnly declared, that they submitted therein to the
decree of the Pope, which denied that motion. This,
Dr. W. thought, was too much for the Pope to de-
termitic.

The thanks were carried, ns were tense to the
Ct' if:written of Ledies and the Officers of the Society,
after which the Meeting broke up.

Faox viz LONDON GAZETTE, Nor•. 25.

Foreign-Office, Nov. 22.

I llis Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been
pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Ma.
jesty, to appoint Edward James Die kiwis, Esq. to
be his Majesty's Secretary of Legation at the Court
of Florence.
Ilia Royal Highness the Prince Regent has also
• been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his
Majesty, to appoint Francis Peter Werry, Esq. to
be his Majesty's Secretary of Legation at the Court
of Dresdeu.

50th Ditto, tient. If. S. •Ittuldarh, from the 97tli'Foot;to be
Lieutenant, •ice Harvey, who exchanges.
Ist Regiment of Foot, Ensign Fraucis Crowther to be Lieute-
nant: vice Todd, dremsed.
.1 B. Nixon, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Crowther.
4th Ditto, Ensign W. S. Taylor to be Lieutenant, vine Squire,
dead of his wounds.
John Ramsay, Gent. to be Ensign, %ice Taylor:
6th Ditto. Capt. W. H. Stephens, from the 66th Font, to be
Captain of a Company, vice M` Ple`rson, who exchanges.
14th Ditto, Volunteer H. C. Cotton, from the 95th Foot, to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Cooper. who resigns.
115th Ditto, Ensign C. I.3nam to be Lieutenant, without pur-
-1 chase, vice Carey, promoted in the 60th Foot.
Richard William Lawson, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Lynam.
25th Ditto, Henry John Sparling, Gent. to be Ensign, •ice
Stewart, deceased.
'27th Ditto l.irot. 11. Harvey, from the2.lth Light Dragoons,
to he Lieutenant. vice Roddaelt, who exchanges.
41st Dato, Lieut. Ilen.y Dist` Townshend„ from half-pay of
Regiment, t.. be Lieutenant, without purchase.
49d Ditto, Lieut.-Col. Thomas Pearson, from the Star in Ca-
nada. ,t) be. l.ieutenant Colonel, vice Wells. who exchanges.
49th Ditto, Lieut. .1. K Waring, from the 66th Foot, to be
I Lieutenant, vice Birmingham. uhoexehauges.
55d Ditto, Cornet S. C. Backhouse, from the 17th Light Dra-
goons, vice Peter Bitekhouse, who exchanges.
57th Ditto, Ensign George Comerford to be Lieutenant, vice
as, deceased.
William Harley. Gent. to be Ensign. vice Comerford.
asth Ditto, Ensign George. Wilson to be Lieutenant, without
purchase.
Volunteer Ronald NPDonald, from the 79th Foot, to be Ensign,
Soler Wilson.
60th Ditto, Serjeant-Major Richard Packer to be Adjutant
(with the rank of Ensigu), vice Lacho, who resigns the Ad-
iota gacy only.
66th Ditto, Capt. A. Nl`Pherson, from the Gth Font, to be
Cootsoin of a Company, %ice Stephens, who exchanges.
Lietit. J. W. Virmingham, front the 19th Foot, to be Lieute-
nant. wire Waring, who exchanges.
67th Unto, --- hl• Pherson, Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Cockerill, a hose appointment has not taken
place.
96.11 Ditto. Lieut. Alexander Stewart to be Adjutant, vice
Itirkards. who resigns the Adeottanicy only.
99th Ditto, Major Melville Browne. from half-pay of the late
9d Provisional Biota ion of Militia, to be Major, vice
Tryon, who exchanges.
101st Ditto, Hospital-Assistant Alexander Shaw to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Whitely. who
lit esi India R giment.
ITo be Lieutenants— Ensigns John Pilkington, vice 111‘Gee. de-
ceased ; and .1. S. Lynch, vice Hose, deceased.
To be Ensigns—Thomas Vavasonr Durell, Gent. vice Pilking-
ton ; and William Montgomery, Gent. rice Lynch.
Ditto, Ensign John M•lntyre to he Lieutenant, vice Le
Shitre, deceased.
Wiliam History Walker. Gent, to be Ens'gn, vice 'AP Intyre.
4th Ditto, Ensign Charles Baillie so be Lieutenant, without
piierhase, vice Cavendish, appointed to the 3d Garrison Bat-
talion.
Henry Drayton, Grotto be Ensign, vice Ramie.
6th West India Regiment, Ensign 11. Smith to be Lieutenant,
vice W nod, deceased.
:lama Fyfe, Gent, to he Ensign, vice Smith.
Sib Ditto, Ensign George Moss to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase. vice Anderson, cashiered.
To be Ensigns—Ensign EdWard Freder ck Dimond, from half
pay of the late '2d Provisional Brnalion of Militia, vice
Berkeley, deceased ; Gentleman Cadet Edward P. Ford,
from the Royal Mahar, College, vice Taylor, deceased ;and
Abraham W hit field, Gent. • ice Moss.
Royal York Rangers. Lim?. W. Radford to be Captain of a
Company, vice M -Gregor, deceased.
D, Tatum, tient. to be EnSgo, vice Brew, deceased. '
'BREVET.
Thomas (Aster, Esq. late Brevet Lientenant-Colonel in the
Cape Regiment, and Inspector of the Island Militia and of
the Coasts of St. Helena, to .be Lieatenaut-Colonel in that'
Island only.
STAFF.
Major Hnn. Sir Charles Gordon, on half-pay of be 2d Greek
Light Infantry, to he Deploy Quarter-Master General to the
Troops at St.'Helena, with the rank of Lieutenant-Gland
in the Army.
Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Wells, from the 43d Foot, to he In-
specting Field-Officer of the Militia in Canada, vice Pearson,
who exchanges.
Serie:ant-Major Charles Clarke to he Adjutant to the Cavalry
Depot at Maidstoilie (a ith the 'huh of Lieutenant), vice Wil-
kinson. appointed to the `id Garrison Battalion.
To he Dewily Assistant-Commissuries-General to the Forces.
Cominsissoniat Clerk Jor.iah nice; and Commissariat Clerk
Charles Edward Monk.
York Light Infantry Volunteers.
Hospital-Assistant Edward Warner Burton to be Assistnnt-
• Surgeon, vice Conolly, promoted in the sth West ludia Re-
giment.
ERRATA in the Gazettes of the 15th July, IRV, and 4th
iwtant.
EGO' Foot.

For Ensign George F. Polk to tw Lieutenant,
Read Ensign James F. Pari. to be Weutenant.
631 font.
Fer Quarter-blaster-4erjeant John Day to be Quarter-Mas-
ter, &c.
Read Serjetint John Day to be Quarter-Master.