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They are happy on jthe present occasion to inform the Meeting , that already a school has been established at Ltineret , in France , Under the direction of the Rev . M . Cadoret , a Protestant Minister , in which a number of Catholic and Protestant
children receive instruction . This feature of the British System in making the schools accessible to children of every religious denomination , received the universal approbation of all foreigners who visited the School of the Institution , and it is upon this plan that the Commission at Paris are now proceeding .
ASIA , In addition to the means for diffusing knowledge in India , which the School at Calcutta affords , of which mention has formerly been made , the Committee have the pleasure to state that a new establishment has originated from his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent .
The Second Battalion of the Royal Scots ( the Duke of Kent's regiment , ) having been ordered to Hydrabad , where it will probably remain for several years , his Royal Highness gave directions for the establishment of a
regimental school , under Sergeant Mullens , who had peen instructed at the Royal Free School . In giving this order , his Royal Highness expressed his hope that this regimental school would be the sure means of
fixing for ever the principles of the British and Foreign School Society in India ,, upon a basis which nothing can hereafter destroy . The Committee , anxious to
co-operate with his Royal Highness in this important design , voted the necessary requisites for the outfit of this school , in lessons , slates , &c . for 200 boys , for which , at the instance of Sir John
Jackson , the Directors of the India Company granted free tonnage . Desirous that no opportunity should be lost to extend the facilities of the system , your Committee applied , by their Foreign Secretary , to the Dutch
Ambassador , for the purpose of interesting his Excellency on behalf of the schools at Amboyna , which are supported by the government , that they may be organized upon the British System , and thereby be made applicable to a larger numb . er of children . AFRICA Since the departure of the African
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lads for Sierra Leone , under the caer oY Mr . and Mrs . Sutherland , the African Institution have placed on the establishment , to be instructed and qualified as teachers , three African youths , and another has been sent at the charge of CoK Maxwell , the Governor of the Colony .
An application having been made to the Committee by the Rev . Mr . Latrobe , on behalf of a Hottentot school belonging to the Moravian Mission , at Guadenthall , about 17 a miles from the Cape of Good Hope , in which about 250 Hottentot
children have been taught to read , -write and cipher , the Committee voted a supply of lessons , slates , and all school requisites , for a school of 300 children . The letter of Mr . Latrobe , containing much interesting information , is inserted in the Appendix .
AMERICA . The rapidity with which schools upon the British System have been established in the New World , almost exceeds belief . Scarcely three years have elapsed since the first genuine school of this description was established by Robert Ould , in George Town . This young man states , that independent of his own school , in which , since his arrival , upwards of $ 000 children have reaped the benefit of instruction , teachers hare b « en qualified , and schools opened in nearly all of the principal towns in the United States .
Accounts have been received of the arrival of the Rev . Mr , Osgood and Robert Johnstone , sent out by this Institution , at Quebec , where they had commenced their operations by establishing a school . A letter from the Secretary of the
Society was forwarded by the Duke of Kent to Sir G . Prevost and Sir J . S herbrooke , requesting their patronage and support to the object of Mr . Osgood ' s mission . At the same time was sent a supply of lessons and requisites for the school belonging to the Royal Acadian Institution at Halifax , under the superin
tendauce of Mr . Bromley . A letter waslarely received from Sir J . Sherbrooke , Governor of Nova Scotia , dated Halifax , February 4 , acknowledging the receipt of the Secretary ' s letter of the 3 d of Septem ber , accompanying the lessons , &c - tranS-
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S 96 Intelligence— British and Foreign School Soeieiy .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/68/
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