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J . Jackson , who also , on the arrival of ihe Duke of Kent , resigned it to his Royal Highness . The Rev . Dr . Collyer read the Report , which paid some well-merited compliments to the memory of the late Secretary , Joseph Fox , Esq . by whose noble benevolence the great
cause had been rescued from failure , he having taken upon himself the engagements which Mr . Lancaster had entered into , but could not meet to a very considerable amount . The Re-«
« r , _ _ _ • port quoted the exertions making in Southwark , as an example to the City of London , and to the rest of the United Kingdom ; stated that the
invested subscription , which was accumulating for the purpose of raising JS 10 , 000 , had arisen to ^ 7 , , and that the remaining ^ 3 , 000 was expected to be raised , as first hoped for , within the present year . The funds
of the Institution were still lamentably narrow , when compared vritb the great object in view : —but the Report recommended perseverance , and the union of all good men of all persuasions , and the great object would be attained . The harvest was generally promising . „ ..,.-. The vast empire
of Russia » was of good promise ; ' its government felt the value of general education , and was preparing for a hearty co-operation with this Society . A society was establishing in that empire for the purpose . It was with very mingled emotions that the Society looked to France , whose public schools , once on a footing of liberality ,
nowrefused instruction to any but professed Catholics , though its population contained at least sixteen millions , who could neither read or write I All the masters , who conscientiously could not be Papists , were , whatever their talents , dismissed from the schools , to
which they had been great ornaments . This was a source of deep regret . Much good , nevertheless , had been done . The British system had been transplanted into France , and exhibits ed in its beauty and strength to the
admiring eyes of Frenchmen . Switzerland was busil y opening schools for general education , under the p atronage of the Plenipotentiary of $ iat country to the Congress at Vienaa ,- —agendernan , to wEose praise" it should dc knowtt * % t&t wh ^ n offered a national recompence for his high
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services , he declined it ; but prayed that the ampunj , with an addition from ^ ' hittis ^! ^ mrght become the beginning of a national fund for a freeschool , on the model of the British free-school . Through the lamented loss of Mr . Fox , who was , when takenv ill .
engaged on the business of the Foreign part of the Report , but' a scanty account could be ' -givert of Asia . In Africa the cause had received a severe check . Mrs . Sutherland had yielded to the pressure of the climate , and Mr . S . had returned ill ; but y et , under the fostering care of Lieut . Col
McCarthy , the Governor of Sierra Leone , between two and three hundred children were receiving education , and this under the superintendence ot the eldest African youth trained by this Society .
Unshackled' by prejudice , America was progressing in education . She had shown her -wisdom by the adoption of a liberal system , and a school on the principle of exclusion was not known in the United States . The
legislature of New York had given repeated encouragement by grants . A society was formed there for the education of all the children not provided for by some religious establishment . On a Sundky morning between eight and nine hundred children assembled
under that society , and branched off at a given hour to the respective places of public worship appointed by their parents . Female associations were forming fbi instruction of the girls in needle-work .
The legislature of Halifax had voted j £ 46 o to th > schools there , in token ot approbation of the very manifest change for the better , in the character and conduct of the children . Very great emotions of p leasure appeared to agitate Che assembly , when that part of the Report which regards Hayti was read . The Chief , Christophe , deeply penetrated with the benefits ofimowledge and , the diffusion ot the . Scriptures , invites among his people , all thbae who cq ^ tW contribute tt ) their improvement . In a proclamation in the gazette tff Haytl , he says , — "I invite pro ^ foirs of all science * no difference ot ^ eVigjibn shall t # deemed * an ext fiiaitfn . Merit andabi " lity atone sh ^ inbe ^ biisWered , ^ g *** Wn ^' -to tfife r&ridA wt > ic ! i gtffe w" *
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1 ¦ * ^ * 1 366 Intelligence .- ^ -Schools for AIL
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1816, page 366, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2453/page/58/
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