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and it was delightful to witness the Spirit of friendly feeling and harmony that generally prevailed . The number of lay gentlemen present from the Sheffield congregation was a living testimony to the truth of Dr . Philipps ' s remark , " That Vnitariankm in Sheffield was a flourishing plant ? * We lament that our limits do not allow us to give the speeches more in detail .
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468 Intelligence . —London University .
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London University . On Monday , April 30 , at Three o ' clock in the afternoon , the ceremony of laying the first stone of this great work took place on the ground purchased by the Council at the upper end of Gower Street . It was performed by the Duke of Sussex with the usual Masonic observances , in the presence of a very large aud elegaut assemblage of Fpectators . The Dukes of Norfolk and
Leinster , Dr . Lushington , Mr . Brougham , Mr . Johu Smith , and many other mem bers of the Council , assisted . Dr . Lushington and his Royal Highness both shortly addressed the company . Coins of the present currency were deposited in the stone , which bore the following Latin inscription , recording the date of the commencement of the undertaking , its objects , and the names of the Council :
Deo Opt . Max . Sempiterno Orbis Architecto Favente Qvod Felix Favstvm que sit Octovvm Regni annvm inevnte Georgio Qvarto Britanuiarvm Rege Celsissimvs Princeps Avgvstvs Fredericvs Svssexiae Dvx
Onniivm Bonarvm Artivni Patron vs Antiqvissinri Ordinis Architectonic ! Praeses apvd Anglos Svmmvs Primvin Londinensis Academiae Lapidcin Inter Civivm et Fratrvm Circvmstantivm Plavsvs Manv sva locavit Prid Kal . Maii .
Opvs Div mvltvm que desidcratvm Vrbi Patriae cominodissimvm Tandem aliqvando inchoatvm est Anno Salvtis Hvmanae MDCCCX ! XVJI . Anno Lvcis Nostrae MMMMMDCCCXXVII . Nomina Clarissimorvm Virorvm Qui svmt e Concilio Henricvs Dvx Norfolciae He uric vs Marchio de Lansdown
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Dominvs Ioaunes Rvssell Joannes Vicecomes Dvdley et Ward Georgivs Baro de Avckland Honorabilis lac . Abercrombie
lacobvs Macintosh Eqves Alexander Baring Georgivs Birkbeck Henricvs Brovgham Thomas Campbell IsaacLyon Goldsmid Olinthvs Gregory Georgivs Grote Ipsephys Hvme Zac . Macavlay lacobvs Mill Beniaminvs Shaw Ioannes Smith Gvlielmvs Tooke Henricvs Warbvrton Henricvs Waymovth Ioaunes Wishaw Thomas Wilson
Gvlielmvs Wilkins , Architectvs . In the evening a dinner was given at the Freemasons' Tavern to the Members of the Council and the friends of the Institution , who assembled to the number of nearly 500 . The galleries were filled with ladies , who appeared to take great interest in the scene , animated as it was by music and singing , aud frequent bursts of enthusiastic applause during the toasts and speeches . The Duke of Sussex presided .
Among the usual preliminary toasts , the healths of the King and the Lord High Admiral excited more than the customary plaudits , recent political matters being evidently in the minds of the company . In proposing the health of the Duke of Sussex , the Duke of Norfolk observed , that , to the illustrious titles derived from his ancestors , his Royal Highness added the still more illustrious titles of
Protector of every Chan fey , the enlightened Patron of the Arts , and the friend of Civil and Religious Liberty . The toast was received with immense cheering . The Duke of Sussex returned thanks .
He was glad of every thing which recalled to his recollection the principles which had placed his family upon the throne . He was greatly interested in the establishment of the University , and would always give his best exertions to aid it . This Institution would in no
way interfere with Oxford and Cambridge , and ought to be regarded as a help to those universities in the common business of education . Their discipline and regulations prevented their adopting the changes required by the progress of
improvement , and the expense of : instruction with them had greatly increased within the last thirty years . Now the object of the London University would be to embrace all improvements in the science , and greatly reduce the expense , of education . But he did not
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 468, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/76/
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