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    tation and influence of the Institution 5 and your Committee trust , that when they have submitted to this General Meeting the progress of the Society during the last year , a conviction will universally prevail that the British and Foreign School Society is not inferior in utility , nor less deserving of public support , than any Institution which exists in the British

    Empire . The Reports of the proceedings of Schools on the British System , in different parts of the kingdom , having been given in November last , the object of the present General Meeting

    is to receive a statemeut of the proceedings of the Institution , and an account of the receipts and disbursements during the past year , and to appoint new Officers for the ensuing year . The events which have occurred

    during the past year have fully justified the propriety of having given to the Institution the title of British and Foreign School Society , since it at once designates the object of the Institution to be the promotion of education both at home and abroad .

    The first favourable circumstance was the acquisition to the Society of the services of the Rev . Dr . Schwabe , Minister of the German Chapel in Goodman ' s-fields , who kindly undertook the important office of Foreign Secretary . In a journey which Dr . Schwabe took to the Continent , last

    summer , he found frequent opportunities to spread a knowledge of the Institution-in different parts of Germany ; and since his return to England he has commenced a correspondence with the celebrated Festal lozzi , at

    Yoerdini , in Switzerland , with a view to iuvite his co-operation in the success of this Society , and to ascertain what parts of his excellent system of instruction may be engrafted upon the British system . The Doctor has also

    corresponded with public-spirited individuals at Coblentz , Elberfeld , l otsdam and Konigsberg , concerning toe introduction of the British Syston , and with Count de JLaysterie / at " ark .

    The Rev . Mr . Coilman , of whom R ation was made in the Report of Novem ber , having obtained a though knowledge of the British Sysm of Education , has returned to ^ ermany , intending to take the adntage of any favourable opportu-

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    nity of introducing it into the schools of his native country . The affairs of the Congress having detained the Emperor of Russia at Vienna , the measures which the Com- * mittee have every reason to believe his Imperial Majesty is disposed to »

    adapt , for the introduction of the system into his vast empire , have beea unavoidably suspended ; but the Committee have icceived the gratifying intelligence , that the Minister of the

    Interior had written to the Emperor at Vienna , informing him , that after his return to Petersburgh , he would hav-e the honour of laying Dr . HameRs account of the New System before his Majesty .

    During the late interval of peace , every suitable opportunity has been taken to disseminate a knowledge of this Society in France . Several gea * tlemen , who were friends to the Institution , undertook , in travelling through that country , to put the

    Reports and other publications of the Society into the hands of benevolent and influential persons . Thus information relative to the object of the Society , and the facilities of the system of education , were diffused through France , JFlanders , Holland and

    Germany . The gentlemen who have in . this way particularly promoted the objects of the Society are- ^—Francis Homer , Esq . M .. P . one of the Vice-Presidents ; Mr . Leonard Horner ; Mr . John Murray , of Edinburgh ^ and Mr . Rae Wilson , of Glasgow ;

    Complete sets of the lessons were presented to those foreigners , who , on . visiting the Institution , were found to > enter with eagerness into the merits of the plan of instruction , that they might be able to communicate abroad the most accurate account of the

    method whereby so great advantages may be attained . Amongst those were—the Abbe Gualtier , and the Couude L Abord . The publications of the Society have also been sent to the Minister of

    the Interior in Russia ; the Abbe Moutesquiou , Minister of the Interior iu France ; Professor Pictet , at Geneva ; Mr . Pestallozzi , in Switzerland : and the Rev . Mr . Ledaboer , at Rotterdam .

    At the half-yearly meeting , in November last , the Society was informed of the steps -which had been taken to prepare qualified teachers to organize schools in France . It will be re-

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    Intelligence *—British and Foreign ScJwpl Society . 393

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 393, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/65/