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of conferring an essential service upon his country , will be transmitted along a great diameter of the globe , as along a musical chord , which , lengthened as it may be , from Ireland to India , will still vibrate at its farthest extremity , firmly attached there , to the heart of Lord Moira .
It has , my Lord , been the peculiar good fortune of the British Empire in the East , that the personages most eminent in the law and sfate departments , have been , at the same time , distinguished for their literary zeal , taste and talents . When the
Governor-General is heard discoursing , with eloquence so energetic , and with such emphasis of the heart , on the interests of literature , as essentially connected with the common weal of mankind , and the true science of goverment , the Directors of the
Academical Institution , in the town of Belfast , resting on such high authority , are led to believe , that national education forms , in itself , a common country , of which all lovers of learjiing , however distant , are fellow-citizens , thus again approximating India and Ireland .
Hence , we infer the pleasing probability , that the same patriotic , philosophic , and philanthropic spirit , which inspired your Excellency in your animating address to the College
at Calcutta , will lead you to look with benignity upon a collegiate institution in your native land ; of which establishment we now beg leave to express the ultimate object , and the actuating principle .
That object is , not merely to commence , but to complete a general course of useful and liberal instruction , corresponding to the population , the property , and the prospects of the North of Ireland—to form a collegiate establishment , with such deviations from ancient institutions , as
are justified by recent improvements , and by the increased light of the times ---to attract , as to a central point , the ° est and most approved teachers , not only in classical learning , but in the di
fferent departments of polite literature , science and philosophy—to afford these professors and teachers such Permanent , yet moderate endowments , as may still keep their chief Prospects directed to an increased Aumber of pupils- without suffering
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genius , from too ample revenues , to rust in long and listless vacation ; but to be kept bright by use , and thus rendered more and more radiant , by- * the necessity of an honourable
popularity , and that professional celebrity , which can alone , and perhaps ought alone , to give literary men a constant employment , and their labours an adequate remuneration .
The actuating principle which pervades this Establishment , is , the desire of its Directors to nationalize instruction by including all religious persuasions , in the common , civic concern , of a good education , whether
as preceptors , or as pupils—to open the gates of the institution as widely as the directors do their hearts , to th « free and unquestioned admission of Catholic as well as Protestant scholars ; thoroughly convinced as we are
that the rays of pure religion , like the solar beams , while they . contain an assemblage of distinct colours , afford light and heat to the world by their intimate coalescence ; and are all derived , as they ail tend , to the same great and glorious source and
origin . With such objects in contemplation , and such principles in action , the Joint Boards of Managers and Visitors cannot repress their sanguine
hopes , that your Excellency will deign to give their Institution the same patronage and protection , which it has already experienced from persons of the first distinction in Ireland .
Among a great number , we shall only particularize the Marquis of Donegall , President for life > the Marquis of Downshire , late Vice-President , and our permanent friend 5 the Lord Bishop of Down and Connor , Honorary
Visitor ; and Lieutenant - General Lord Stewart ; who have all occasionally visited , and warmly approved of the system of instruction adopted , the plans proposed , and the organization of the whole establishment . The
Institution has been incorporated by act of parliament . It has been honoured by a parliamentary grant of £ 1500 , in the last session , through th * recommendation of the Irish
government . From its opening , in February 18 14 , it has advanced with most rapid and extraordinary progress , until , at the present date , it contains between three and four hundred pupil * , daily
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Address to his Excellency the Earl of Moira . $ 5 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 559, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/27/
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