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pursuits of Study , " have , their appropriate reward rather in popular rep own than in the suffrages of societies dedicated and Se * t a ' part fbr the encouragement of learning and science . ' The worid at large is Sir Walter Scott's University , in which
he studies and in which he teaches ; and every individual who reads is a concurrent suffragan for the honours he has earned from the public . We , however , are not met to-day merely as a portion of that public , or to express as individuals what we owe to its benefactors . We
are met as members of a learned body , a society consecrated to the cultivation of those severer studies in ivhich the perseverance of the young should be stimulated by the honours which they help to confer on those who have made the greatest advances ; and , acting in this capacity , and with a due sense of the ends of the
Institution in which we are united , we ought , it rather seems to me , on an occasion like this , to take care that we are not toojnuch dazzled with the blaze of 38 nkt broader and more extended fame which fills the world beyond us . Now , it appears to me , that , in all the attainments which are to be honoured in a Seat of
learning , Sir James Mackintosh is as clearly superior to his competitor as he is inferior perhaps in the qualities that entitle him to popular renown . In profound and exact scholarship—in learning , properly so called , in all its variety and extent—in familiarity , with alithe
branches of philosophy—in historical researchin legislative skill , wisdom and cautioniu senatorial eloquence , and in all the amenities of private life and character , I know no man ( taking all these qualifications together ) not merely to be preferred , but to be compared with him whom we have this day agreed to honour and
among us . And , considering bim as a great example of the utility and tbe beauty of these attainments which we are here incorporated to cultivate and exalt , I cannot but feel that we have done right in giving him the preference upon this occasion oter that other
distinguished person to whom he has this day been opposed , and who would undoubtedly have doue honour to the situation for which he was prdposed . The great comfort in such a competition as that in which we have been engaged , is , that it cannot terminate in any choice that shall
not be a subject of congratulation ; and it is only on looking to him who has n&t been elected , that there can be any room for feelings of regretr ? - I have thus endeavoured * to explain the ' motives which have induced me to concur Wiuh the majority of ray' co * electors ~ -tess for the sake
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Mr . Justice Bayley has expressed a wish to resign his seat in the King's Bench , for the less laborious functions of a Baron of the Exchequer . The King ' s Bench Bar have presented an address to his Lordship , expressive of their regret at being likely to lose a Judge , whose profound knowledge , upright character and amiable deportment throw such a lustre on their Court .
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Considerable anxiety begins to be felt by the public concerning Capt . Parry ' s Expedition to discover a North-West passage . An account has been received from Russia , that some fishing vessels belonging to Kamschatka have seen the adventurous navigators off the Icy Cape . We ardently hope that the intelligence may
prove correct , not only as ascertaining the safety of our brave countrymen , but also as shewing that British enterprise has effected the great discovery of a passage to Icy Cape from Behring Straits . These bloodless triumphs over the difficulties of nature are the real greatness and true glory of nations .
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Ecclesiastical Preferments . The Hon . and Rev . Gerard Wellesuey is appointed Bishop of Meath , in lieu of Dr , O'Beirne , deceased . The Right Rev . Dr . Ejlrington , Bishop of JLimericky to the See of Ferns and IseigMin , vacant by promotion of Lord Robert Tottenham to Clogher .
The Rev . J . Jebb , D . D ., Archdeacon of Emlyy to the See of Limerick , vacant as above . Cai-vert * T . JNForrisian Professor , Cambridge , to the WafcdErishtp of Manchester College : patron , the King . ! '
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H | l - Tntelligen € e .--l !! ccle&iasfical Prefeiih&ttts .
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* < of preventing misconstructions , for which 1 care very little , and which I do not fear at all , than to gratify myself by express * ing a little of what I feel of the merits of both the distinguished candidates , whom I have the honour of ranking almost equally in the . list of iny friends ; The choice you have made I . do
conscientiously" believe to be the best calculated for promoting the . interests of this . University , and the honour of the studies in which all its members are engaged . I have only again to congratulate you upon that choice—to thank you for the attention with which you have favoured-me- — and , for tbe last time , to bid every one of you affectionately farewell .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 124, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/60/
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