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Majesty , beseeching him to grant his Royal Charter of liicQf |> oi *| tion to a Metropolitan University , with a power of conferring elegies without inierferiug with certain of the privileges of the aneiwtfJmxpc sities of Oxford aud Cambridge . " That your Petitioner has heard with surprise and regret that , it is
now intended to limit the privilege of obtaining a degree to the students of two schools only , in the first instancej and thus to cgrtail , in an incalculable measure , the influence this University would otherwise possess ; by which , too , the interests of your Petitioner , and that of the school-masters of the United Kingdom generally , will matetitffty suffer , and numbers of the inferior clergy , whose income , in a great degree , depends upon their pupils , will be reduced to indigence .
* That by this measure another monopoly , of which , in other instances , the promoters of the two schools have so much complained , will be created of a more serious nature , in a moral point of view , than tbat from which they have wished to emancipate themselves ; that parents residing in the country will be compelled to expose their children to
the moral contaminations of the metropolis , at an age when the passions are the most violent , or forego the advantages which a degree in the University will confer ; and that this privilege will only be conferred on those who can afford the expenses attending * a long residence in London , in addition to the fees to be paid to the College to which they may belong .
" That the object which the friends of education have so much at heart will still he unaccomplished . Talent aud geriius , as such , will still go unrewarded , and the energies of those best qualified for education will be seriously impeded , aware , as they must be , that honours and rewards awnit not them , or those entrusted to them , whatever may be the value of their moral and intellectual qualifications .
" Your Petitioner , therefore , feeling that the institution of u great University in the metropolis of the kingdom , ought to operate as a stimulus to the honourable competition of all the schools in the empire , in advancing and strengthening the intellectual powers , without deteriorating the religious and moral feelings of the community , humbly prays your honourable House to adopt such measures as may be necessary , in order that the honours of the new University mav afford
encouragement to talent and industry in whatever situation they may be found ; and your petitioner will ever pray , &c . " . James Alexander Emertom . " Ilanwcll , Feb . 12 , 1836 V I had long waited in the hope that others , more influential and better known to the public , would have come forward ; and it was not until the last hour that I could prevail upon myself to stand foremost in the advocacy of a cause in which the rising generation , particularly , are so deeply interested .
With regard to the injury the monopoly may do myself and the school-masters of the kingdom generally , comprising as the class does numbers of the interior clergy and ministers-of the different bodies of the Dissenters , it may be said , individual interests must givt * way to the general good . If making , ttria University a monopoly could be proved a public advantage
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Metropolitan University . 169
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/41/
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