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LrlTBRARY . Royal Society of Literature . This is a new and somewhat singular institution . Mor « , we suspect , is meant by it than meets the eye . There has
been a e © ffipte& » t of the talents employed by the press in opposition to ministers , and this may be an attempt to enlist literature Jn the service of what is so facetiously cabled loyalty .
The Society is professedly instituted " for the Encouragement of Indigent Merit , and the Promotion of General Literature , " a » d is to consist of honorary members , susbserib&ig members and
associates . The class off honorary "members is intended to comprise some of the most eminent literary men in the three kingdoms , and tbre most distmgai&hed female writers of the present day .
Au annual subscription of two guineas will constitute a subscribing member . Subscribers of ten guineas , and upwards , will be entitled to the privileges hereafter mentioned , according to the date of their subscription . The class of associates is to consist of twenty men of distinguished learning , authors of some creditable work of
literature , and men of good moral character ; ten under the patronage of the King , and ten under the patronage of the Society . His Majesty has been pleased to express , in the most favourable terms , his approbation of the proposed Society , and
to honour it with his munificent patronage , by assigning an annual sum of one hundred guineas each , to ten of the associates , payable out of the privy purse ; and also an annual premium of one hundred guineas for the best dissertation on some interesting subject , to be chosen by a council belonging to the Society .
Ten associates will be placed under the patronage of the Society , as soon as the subscriptions ( a large portion of which will be annually funded for the purpose ) shall be sufficient , and in proportiou as they become so . An annual subscriber of tea guineas , continued for five years , or a life subscription of 100 guineas , will entitle such subscribers to
nominate an associate under the Society ' s patronage , according t © ttoe date of their subscription . The associates under Ihe patronage of the King will be elected by respected and
competent jmhres . The asaoctates noiwinatod by subscribers roust hwe the same qualifications of learning , moral character , and public principle , as those who are elected , and must be approved by the same judges .
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Every associate , at his arimiasiony will choose some subject , or subjects , of literature for discussion , and wiH engage to devote such discussions to the Society ' s mefnoirs of literature , of which a volume will be published by the Society from time to time ; in which memoirs will likewise be inserted the successive prize dissertations .
From the months of February to July , it is proposed that a weekly meeting of the Society shall be held , and a monthly meeting during the other six months of th-e yeaf . His Majesty , says the Gentleman ' s Magazine , has intrusted the formation of this Institution to the learned and
eminent Dr . Thomas Burgess , Bishop of St . David ' s * Other branches of the Royal Family hate become subscribers ; ministers give their aid ; many of the most distinguished among the clergy concur in promoting the plan ; and the leading members of both Universities are among its friends . The funds are already considerable ; and his Majesty may be considered as the personal as well as Royal Founder and Patron of the Society . The first Prize Q uestions are as follows :
Premiums for 1821 and 1822 * 1 , The King ' s Premium of One Hundred Guineas , for the best Dissertation on the Age , Writings and Genius of Homer ; and on the State of Religion r Society , Learning and the Arts , during that period , collected from the
writingsof Homer . 2 . The Society ' s Premium ef Fifty Guineas , for the best Poem on Dartmoor . 3 . The Society ' s Premium ^ of Twenty-five Guineas , for the best Essay on the FJ istory of the Greek language ^ of the present language of Greece , especially in the Ionian Islands ; and on the Difference between Ancient and Modern Greek .
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The United Body of Scotch Seceders have commenced a magazine at Glasgow , under the title of " The Christian Recorder . * The Prospectus is altogether a manifesto of the church militant . The worthy Scots who compiled it thus speak
of a portion of their brethren : ** We are sorry indeed to be under the necessity of adding , that those usually known by the luuaae of English Presbyterians have long ago forsaken the faith of the gospel , and drunk deep at the streams of the Arian and Sociwian heresies . " These infallible
Presbyterians further promise ' * the friends of truth" regular bulletins of " the position and strength of the enemies * forces , whether under the designation of Heathen Idolater * . Deluded Ma-
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Iintelligence . —* Literary . Roped Society of Literature . 127
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1821, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2497/page/63/
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