Chapter XVI: Appendix: No. 1

_Speech of His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor at the meeting of the General Assembly, at Fredericton, February 1, 1825._

_Mr. President, and Gentlemen of His Majesty's Council,
Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,_

I have much satisfaction in meeting the Legislature of
New-Brunswick--I am well persuaded that you will continue to
promote and support the Interests and Institutions of the Province
in a manner that will not fail to receive from me that ready and
cordial concurrence which it will be my greatest pleasure to bestow
upon all measures that may be calculated to advance the public
good.

It affords me great pleasure to have it in my power to congratulate
you on the very prosperous state of the Provincial Finances. The
Revenue of the last exceeds greatly that of any former year, and
yields a large surplus beyond the charges incurred, within the
corresponding period.

_Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,_

I shall direct the Treasurer's Accounts to be laid before you, I
rely upon your making the usual provisions for the Ordinary
Services of the Province; and I am happy to acquaint you that the
state of the Treasury is such as to enable you to provide for other
objects of public interest and utility, to which your bounty has
already been extended, and also to promote other important services
which I shall hereafter bring before you.

_Mr. President, and Gentlemen of His Majesty's Council,
Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,_

Watching assiduously over the Public Interests, I shall have to
submit to you, by Message, various measures which it will be
necessary to bring under your consideration in the course of the
Session, but whilst I reserve matters of detail for that mode of
communication, important considerations and general views, which
require to be fully and forcibly put to the Country, and which
could not be properly treated in partial or very concise form,
render it expedient, on this particular occasion, to lay before you
such a statement of public affairs, as may embrace, generally, all
interests, and leave nothing in doubt as to our real situation, in
the more important branches of our well being.

I have great pleasure in stating to you that I find the affairs of
the Province to be generally in a very prosperous condition. It
will be useful however, to observe closely, how far this prosperity
depends upon adventitious circumstances and in what degree it rests
upon our own inherent means and resources: for it is necessary to
contemplate the condition in which the Country might be placed, by
alterations in such of her transactions as may be deemed
precarious, to feel, with due effect, the necessity, which I
earnestly represent, of attending zealously to those internal
resources which are not of that uncertain description. The trade of
the Province is, at present, very active; but much of that activity
depends obviously, upon external circumstances, on the permanency
of which, it were imprudent to continue to stake so exclusively,
the well being of the Country. It will be prudent, therefore, to
endeavour to open channels by which we may make our Commerce more
general, consequently less precarious, and particularly to
establish and improve commercial intercourse with our sister
Colonies. Taking from _them_, what we require, we may make returns
by some important operations of our industry, and particularly by
the proceeds of an advantageous trade which this transaction would
greatly extend; contributing thus to each others wants, in a way
mutually beneficial: and, in an union of interests, promoting and
consolidating strong and lasting ties.

Other channels for commercial operations of very advantageous
natures invite us to cultivate with increased activity, that rich
source of wealth (one of our natural advantages) which our
Fisheries present! These, if rendered more productive, will afford
us great additional facilities in trade with the new States of
South America: and there are favourable openings in the liberal
policy of the present times, which should encourage us to
cultivate, by every means, commercial intercourse with those
States. By your wisdom and bounty the Fisheries have been improved
on remote parts of the coasts of British America; but I recommend
you to consider whether the Home or Coast Fisheries might not be
brought more under the fostering and stimulating influence of your
bounty by some extension of its provisions. The main branch of our
manufacturing industry (Ship-Building) has increased prodigiously,
and is now carried on to an extent beyond that of any former
period: but it is submitted to your consideration whether it is not
accompanied by some disadvantageous circumstances which detract
vastly from the great value it might be made to produce, and to
leave in the Province; and for which I have no doubt, you will
adopt prudent remedies that will render this branch of industry
more staple, as well as more beneficial.

Vast sums are sent from this Province, in specie, for the purchase
of foreign agricultural produce. This enormous burthen operating in
fact, as a tax raised by foreign industry on our food, contributes
to raise high above the rate in surrounding Countries, the wages of
labour here, and to lay the Province under corresponding difficulty
and disability in every branch of its industry. It comes home to
us, grievously, in various forms, in every operation of our
domestic and political economy; and I appeal to your wisdom, to
your patriotism, to the real interests, and to the public spirit of
the Country for zealous co-operations in the measures and exertions
necessary to relieve the Province from this most serious
difficulty.

Agricultural, Emigrant, and other Societies should be encouraged to
extend and exert their influence in every way that can tend to
promote, improve, circulate and distinguish the modes and means
most favourable to augment the production of subsistence. By such
means, too, we may reasonably expect soon to possess a population
sufficient for the operative parts of all other branches of
industry; and when these several operations shall all be executed
by British Subjects and British Colonists, the Province will feel
and exhibit in her condition the good effects of having closed
those drains that have long carried off much capital which
otherwise would have been laid out in the Merchants' stores, in the
cultivation of the soil, and in other productive enterprizes of
vast advantage.

Large sums have been expended on the Great Roads of this Province;
but their condition shows the inefficiency of the present system,
in appropriation and execution. This arises, chiefly, from having
tried too much, and in such attempts dispersing limited means, to
superficial and endless labor; on works far too numerous and
costly, to be all substantially improved at the same time. Such
appropriation, therefore, should be made of the sums which may be
allotted to the Great Roads as may ensure effectual exertion upon
them in succession, and in the order of their importance; and at
the same time preclude those partial and general alterations in the
lines of Roads, from which vast sums of public money have been
uselessly expended. The Public Service has been exposed to very
serious inconvenience by irregularities incident to the present
line of communication between the Seat of Government and the City
of Saint John. To remedy this, whatever it may be necessary to do
in other times and seasons, I earnestly recommend the expediency of
completing such a communication with Saint John, for a winter
travelling and Post Road, as may not be subject to those serious
interruptions and dangers to which the present line must always be
exposed, during the greater portion of the year.

Fully impressed with the importance of attending to the efficiency
of the Militia, I have derived much satisfaction from what I have
witnessed of their appearance and public spirit. The Militia Law
will have to pass under your revision, generally, and I recommend
the amendment of those clauses which press so severely upon the
Militiamen in regard to the distance of travel to their drill, and
also with respect to age, at unnecessary cost of time, and
inconvenience to the people.

I earnestly recommend to your continued patronage the several
Institutions for the Education of our Youth; and I may have
occasion hereafter to recommend measures for giving security and
encouragement to those Provident Institutions, which I am happy to
acquaint you have been established in this Province, under very
promising circumstances, highly advantageous to the Country.

I have great satisfaction in acquainting you that our Most Gracious
Sovereign has condescended to patronize the College of
New-Brunswick with his gracious Favor, and to bestow a Grant from
His Royal Revenues in this Province, to place that Institution upon
a very improved establishment; and I rely upon such gradual
provision being made hereafter, in addition to your last vote, as
may enable the Governor and Trustees, to proceed in the erection of
a suitable building. His Majesty's Secretary of State has further
dispensed the grace and favour of the Crown in a manner that cannot
fail to be duly and fully appreciated, and to sustain those
principles of attachment, and loyalty which distinguish the origin
and course of this Colony.

In addition to the provision made for the Madras Schools,
generally, and to that of the African School at St. John, I
recommend some provision for a similar establishment at the Seat of
Government, to bring more generally within the influence of these
excellent Institutions, a portion of the human race to whom we owe
kindness, charity, and benevolence, and for whom we should provide
religious, moral and industrious education.

In the very prosperous condition which the affairs of this Province
may now permanently take, I perceive, that the period is arrived
for entertaining enlarged views and scope of system, necessary to
supersede some very disadvantageous circumstances which should be
gradually corrected, and to raise the Province to that
consideration, value and importance, which it will soon assume, if
the management of its affairs proceed upon sound views and
estimates of her true situation, and be conducted according to
fixed and solid general principles. But great misery and
embarrassment may be inflicted on young and advancing Countries, if
disturbed by doubts, or exposed to quick transitions arising from
different schemes of temporizing policy, and I desire to point out
the errors and dangers of all contingent measures and pursuits made
only to comply with chance circumstances, temporary interests and
adventitious excitements.

To that solid course, then, which may best embrace all of those
interests of which the public good is made up, and upon which the
permanency of your prosperity depends, I shall endeavour to look,
and on it encourage the exertions of the whole Population to push
their special interests with spirit and enterprize, under the sober
guidance of general measures calculated to produce a steadiness,
healthfulness and solidity of progress, which, under Divine
Blessing, and the powerful and enlightened protection of our Parent
State, will gradually conduct this happy Province to a very high
degree of value and prosperity.

At a general meeting of the Members of the Legislature, and other respectable Gentlemen from all parts of the Province, assembled in one of the Committee Rooms of the House of Assembly on Thursday the 17th of February, 1825, by request of the LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, to take into consideration some propositions to be submitted by his Excellency, relating to the improvement of Agriculture, &c. in this Province, when His Excellency was pleased to open the proceedings of the meeting with the following SPEECH:--

The purpose for which I have caused this meeting to be convened,
is of the first importance to the Country: And I am delighted to
find myself surrounded on this occasion, as I hope to be on every
occasion, by those distinguished Persons, from whose station, stake
and consideration in the Country, I may expect the most powerful
aid in promoting the great objects I have in view, if we are all
fully impressed with the expediency and necessity we are under,
each in our several stations, of doing all that may depend upon us,
to accomplish the purposes which I am now to bring more
particularly under your consideration.

The purpose for which we are met is, to enquire whether some
encouragement and excitement may not be applied to Agricultural
pursuits, to operate, discreetly and gradually, in a manner to
relieve the country from the great difficulty and disability under
which it is laid by the vast sums which we pay for our food, and
from the very disadvantageous effects which this produces on the
cost of labour, and consequently in all branches of our industry.

Under ordinary circumstances, the high price occasioned by
deficiency in the supply of any article in general demand,
operating as a premium upon increased production, has a direct and
natural tendency to remedy its own evils. This, in fact, is an
effect which _is_ working here, though slowly, to cure the malady
of which we complain; and if other branches of industry were not in
an excited, forced, and somewhat unnatural condition, it would be
unnecessary, superfluous, or perhaps disadvantageous, to interfere
with the sources and currents of supply, which ultimately
accommodate themselves in the most advantageous and fittest way, to
meet demand. But these are peculiarities in the circumstances of
this Country, which must appear very obvious to all persons who
have correct notions of the extent of her business and dealings,
compared with the limited Population and Capital we possess, which
occasioning powerful competitions in other branches, would appear
to demand some additional encouragement and adventitious aid, to
draw Labour and Capital in greater quantities, to the cultivation
of the Soil.

To consider, properly, the best modes and means by which we may
augment the production of subsistence, it will be proper to resolve
the question into the consideration of the elements of production,
viz. Labour, Capital and Land, and to enquire in what way we can
give to those constituent parts of production, the facilities and
encouragement they require, to compete with other branches which
are obviously under the influence of adventitious excitement.

With respect to Land, we possess it in abundance, and in quality
ready to yield what we may in a judicious manner require of it; and
it will be one of my main objects to endeavour to lay open to
Agricultural pursuits, extensive tracts which have long been locked
up in reserved superabundance. This measure has in one case been,
heretofore, sought and petitioned for; but it was not accorded to,
at that time, in consequence of doubts entertained by His Majesty's
Government, as to the value of the standing produce of that Land,
for other purposes. But it is an advantage arising from a late
appointment to a high situation in the Province, that powers are
given, subject to certain conditions and regulations which I may
sanction, to throw open portions of those reserves to meet the
improving circumstances of the Country, and this will be speedily
observed in a way that will open considerable tracts of valuable
Land to the operations of Agriculture.

Proceeding, next, to the consideration of Capital, it has appeared
to me to be very desirable, that some new measures should be taken
with a view to attract the enterprizes of Capitalists, not only to
the cultivation of fresh tracts, but likewise to that of the waste
Lands of the Province generally; and I entertain the intention of
bringing this proposition under the consideration of the High
Authorities, elsewhere, upon whom this will depend. But the
creation and accumulation of small Capitals, sufficient to enable
the working man to enter with advantage on the cultivation of a
grant of Land, of the usual extent, is a matter in degree and
practicability, much within the influence of our own measures, and
it becomes therefore subject of very fit consideration for this
meeting, composed of so many distinguished persons, who, returning
soon to their respective Countries, may give information respecting
those Institutions which are constituted, and likely I trust to be
protected, to provide for the safe custody and accumulation of the
small savings of the industrious classes of Society.

The greater part of such accumulations may be considered as funds
rescued from unproductive consumption, to be laid out productively
in various important branches of industry; and whilst, therefore,
in this view, the provident Institutions deserve encouragement from
all classes, they more particularly suggest to the gentlemen acting
in the different Emigrant and Agricultural Societies, and to the
employers of Agricultural Labours generally, the co-operation which
may be expected from _Savings' Banks_ in encouraging, by enabling,
all industrious persons, soon to enter with advantage on the
cultivation of the Soil, as proprietors of Land.

The poor Emigrant, for instance, who comes to the country destitute
of pecuniary means, and who should always be met and welcomed with
a great deal of charitable attention and protection, should be
told, that to enter on the laborious enterprize of clearing a Lot,
in the wilderness, without Capital, would be to entangle himself in
very considerable difficulty. The best course which such a person
can pursue, would be to avail himself of the assistance, which it
should be a main object of all Emigrant Societies to provide, to
procure advantageous employment in which to acquire experience of
the climate, habit of Labour, and best modes of culture; and whilst
acquiring these, to accumulate his Savings in the Savings' Banks,
in the manner that any person, who is not burthened with a large
family, may soon do, in farm service in summer, and in other
pursuits in winter.

This object will perhaps be best pursued by the Emigrant Societies
in the different parts, taking active measures to become acquainted
with the circumstances and description of Emigrants so soon as they
arrive, and entering in a Book, their names, age, trade or
occupation, objects, and the means they may possess of pursuing
these. From those entries of the circumstances and condition of the
Individuals, Emigrant Societies would be competent to give them
counsel and protection. If the Emigrant's desire should be to
Agricultural pursuits, which will commonly be the case, but that he
has no Capital to commence with, he should be advised to put
himself to Farm service, and his attention should be drawn to the
facilities which Savings' Banks provide for receiving, securing and
augmenting his savings. If this measure meet concurrence in its
objects and practicability, it will be received as an appeal to the
Agriculturists of the Country to keep correspondence with the
nearest Emigrant Societies, for the purpose of procuring Labourers
of their recommendation.

But although it may not be expedient for a person without Capital,
to enter at once on the cultivation of his tract, yet it appears to
me that some inducement should be applied to excite his industry by
a prospect of an advantageous location, so soon as he finds himself
capable of undertaking it; and in this view I see no difficulty in
the arrangement, and on the other hand, great public advantage, in
securing for persons thus working for their capital, locations upon
the Lots they may prefer, subject to a condition that, within one
year, the Emigrant Society in whose Books they may be registered,
report favorably of their proceedings, in a manner to give fair
expectation that at the end of a further short period, they would
be able to enter upon their location, and pay a proportion of their
fees, in aid of which the Society should provide some donation or
loan.

But when the Emigrant has pecuniary means, or is resolved to enter
at once on his Land, the Emigrant Societies will be enabled to let
him chuse his situation, in the plans of unoccupied Lots reserved
for Emigrants, which plans will for this purpose be transmitted to
the Emigrant Societies, and to whose recommendation a quick return
of location tickets will be made; and I am happy to say that this
measure will be observed and promoted with much ability and zeal by
the distinguished persons on whom it will severally depend.

When we reflect that one of the greatest difficulties under which
we labour in accomplishing the great purpose of independence with
respect to our food, arises from the want a working population
sufficient for the all operative parts of our industry, and
consequently the very high rate of wages and food, which lays the
Agriculturist under disadvantages of the most serious description,
in a climate where the productive powers of the earth are so long
dormant, we must all concur in the necessity of aiding Societies by
whose means so many able hands can be procured, and for want of
properly supporting which, so many have passed to a foreign land.

An increased competition or supply of labour then will be much
influenced by arrangements such as I have indicated; whilst in its
modes, intelligence and material means, it may be greatly promoted
by _Agricultural Societies_. These, under the designation of
Agricultural and Emigrant Societies, I should wish to see formed in
every County in the Province, and Sub-Societies organized under
them to carry their benefits to all parts of the Country. I trust,
indeed, that ere you depart, the foundation, or rather the
re-organization of such a system will be completed, and I call upon
the Gentlemen of distinction from the different Counties who are
now present to concur in this measure, and when they return to
their respective Counties, to engage to organize such Societies to
be composed of persons who would be most likely to co-operate in
this great purpose. I feel confident, that whenever Societies shall
be so organized in any County, they will meet the provision which I
trust will be made by the liberality of the Country for their
support and efficiency: and I perceive with much satisfaction that
the public spirit of the Country is in many parts exhibiting itself
in the form, and for the purpose which we contemplate for general
adoption.

For the purpose of improving, circulating and distinguishing the
modes and means most favorable to increased production, and of
drawing to a focus that information which it may be desirable to
possess here in the Seat of Government for myself and for you it
will be proper that some provision should be devised for the
laborious part of that purpose which will depend upon a Secretary
who should be appointed to manage the correspondence of the Central
Committee to report proceedings to the general meeting.

The general meeting should be composed of all Members of the
Legislature; of all Presidents and Vice-Presidents of County
Societies, and of all members subscribers in the regulated amount.
The Central Committee should be named in the general meeting to
carry on the correspondence during the recess, and to arrange the
general Accounts; but the appropriation of Public Funds should be
made direct to the County Societies and subject only to the audit
of the Central Committee. These Reports will thus exhibit a general
statement of the sums expended and whether commensurate progress
has been made in the improvement of Agricultural implements,
machinery, modes of culture, augmentation of production, and breed
of Cattle, all of which should be under the influence of these
meetings.

With views such as these, so soon as I discovered, in studying your
affairs, the disabilities and difficulties which the Province might
have to contend with from deficiency in the supply of food, and
aware that it would require pecuniary means, on my part, to put
into activity the plans which I then formed, and now lay before
you, I submitted to His Majesty's Secretary of State the importance
of sanctioning a small grant from the funds at the disposal of the
Crown, to meet the liberality and public spirit with which I am
persuaded, elsewhere and every where, the great object now under
our consideration will be supported. I have great satisfaction in
showing how readily this has been dispensed: I will read the terms
of it, and hasten to say that the use I shall make of it, will be,
to place a sum, which I hope will be annual, at the disposal of
those County Societies that are or may be organized to meet the
views which I here lay before you.

In communicating this grant from His Majesty's Revenue to the
Agricultural Societies, it is however my duty to state, that the
continuation of this grant for future years, will depend upon the
report which I may have in my power to make of the advantages which
it may have produced; and these will mainly depend upon the
liberality and zeal with which this Provision is seconded in the
Country generally.

The Society having been formed and organized, the President communicated to the Meeting that he had received a Message from His Excellency the LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, that it was his intention to attend the Meeting in person, to communicate his sentiments on their proceedings, and his acceptance of the office of Patron.

Whereupon His Excellency entered and having taken the Chair, addressed the Society as follow:--

_Mr. President, Vice-Presidents, and Gentlemen
of the Agricultural and Emigrant Society,_

I evince the satisfaction and cordiality with which I receive your
Address by placing myself in this Chair, as your Patron, on the
very instant the distinguished Seat is offered to me; and the first
sentence I shall deliver from it is, to assure you that my most
zealous exertions shall be used to promote the great objects we
have in view, in every way that may depend upon me.

I am gratified for the present, sanguine and confident for the
future, when I look around me and perceive the distinguished
persons of whom this Society is composed, and the interest which it
has excited; and it is particularly pleasing to me to find myself
supported by the distinguished person whom you have placed in the
President's Chair. I congratulate you, Gentlemen, upon such an
election, and myself on having such coadjutures.

The Agricultural and Emigrant Societies being now about to go into
immediate, and, as I hope successful operation, it may not be
useless to express to you, and through you to convey to the Public,
some appeals to those exertions which will be required to realize
the benefits which we here contemplate, and for attaining which,
the course is now so clear.

This fine, and as I have hitherto found it, happy Province, is
advancing rapidly, with growth almost exuberant, to a station, the
real intrinsic character and condition of which, in other times,
will depend mainly upon the manner in which we who are now
directing its affairs, in certainly a critical period of its
advancement, when it is daily developing its resources, and forming
its system, may discharge our several duties, by doing all that may
depend upon us to train, sustain and correct the principles, habits
and pursuits, and to regulate the exertions, by which,
unquestionably, it may be conducted to a state of great prosperity.

To consider these duties with reference to all the obligations we
owe to the Country, in the several branches which contribute to its
most political and statistical progress, would lead us away far
beyond the sphere of our present purpose; I shall, therefore, only
consider the duties we have to fulfil in regard to the Institutions
now completely organized. The several purposes contemplated by
those Institutions call upon us to promote habits of frugality,
domestic economy, and useful industry, as training a rural
population to settle and labour on the soil, and to assist them so
to exert themselves in the modes and means of culture as to improve
our Agricultural condition; to make us more independent at least
for our food; and subsequently to set free other branches of
industry, which are now under great disability. The foundation of
systems which may produce such benefits has now been laid. I have
had much satisfaction in recommending and promoting them. My views
have been cordially and ably seconded every where; the measures
they called for have now been adopted; and they have been liberally
endowed by the Legislature with pecuniary means to animate and
quicken the system. The Savings' Bank Bill; the organization and
endowment of the Body I now address, open, to the industrious
classes of Society, and to the interests of the Country generally,
a distinct view of the progress that may be made from foundations
laid, first, in habits of frugality and domestic economy, onwards,
through moral and provident conduct, to security and accommodation,
productive application, improvement in Agriculture, increase of
population, competition in labour, encouragement and development of
industry, and augmented production. The Acts and the system of this
Session have laid the foundation of much improvement to the
country, on solid grounds; and seeds which _should_ blossom
hereafter, are planted in the fertile soil; but whether the
superstructure is to be raised, or them seeds are to spring,
depends not on those who have laboured on the foundation, or who
have provided the means that may quicken the process. Whether the
Savings' Bank Bill, or this most admirable Institution are to be
effectual in doing good, depends upon the degree of Public Spirit
with which our exertions here, may be supported and extended in the
Country generally. All Public Institutions live only by Public
Spirit, in any Country; but this is particularly the case in young
Countries where man owes to fellow man a greater contribution of
his concern and of his aid. Look at the progress of an individual
case. When a Settler goes, singly, to encounter the difficulties
and the labour of a solitary Location in an unsettled District, and
with the sweat of his own brow to shelter his family, and to clear
space to receive the seeds which are to yield his immediate
subsistence, we all know what fortitude, power and time are
required to accomplish such beginnings. But should he undertake his
enterprize on a site near to where former Settlers have experienced
such difficulties, the recent sense brings to his aid the little
community, to labour for him; and by the exertions of that _Public_
he is speedily established in a way, that he might never have
accomplished by his own solitary powers. _This is Public Spirit._
So may it be with the Edifices we are now raising! They are, in
some respects, partially, and in others wholly, _new Settlers_, in
this Country; and they are well deserving of public exertion to
complete the useful fabric. We are here entirely dependent upon
public spirit.--What can these systems do without it? They would
languish from this day, and might expire even in their cradle. This
I do trust will never happen. I know not how long I may be the
witness of their progress; but sure I am that the intensity of
interest which I feel in this Province, and which I have imbibed
paternally, for the success of these Institutions which I have been
instrumental in bringing forward, will always be felt with such
solicitude as shall give me pleasure in their success; but which
from that very interest, will suggest reproach, if (which cannot
be) they should fail from want of public exertion. But remember
that time, labour in arrangement and management, must be
contributed gratuitously, for the Chief offices of these
Institutions. I am confident that those sacrifices will be
cheerfully tendered by the public spirit of the Country in a way
that shall produce advantage to it, and reflect everlasting credit,
honor and substantial enjoyment upon the patriotic persons who may
offer their aid.--It cannot fail to do so; for the man who feels
the real impulses of public spirit is usually the happiest, because
he is the best of Beings. Public spirit contains in it every
laudable passion, and every fine affection.--It comprehends our
duties towards our parents, to our kindred, to our friends, to our
neighbours, to our fellow man in every degree, and to every thing
dear to mankind in the public Institutions formed of them. Public
spirit is the highest of virtues, and affords the highest degree of
satisfaction. Steadfast in good purpose; fidelity in trust;
impartial to all; a passion to promote universal good, with
personal labour, pains, and the sacrifice of every selfish feeling;
to endeavour to maintain Society in peace, tranquillity, plenty and
security. It is, in short, as I feel it, one man's care for the
many: and, as you I am persuaded feel it, the concern of every man
for the good of all. This sentiment binds us together in the
pursuit of public advantage to a co-operation from which I am
convinced none will shrink in any difficulty which these
Institutions may have to encounter; and onward let us go with a
determination that when we meet again in this place, we may
receive, and record, reports which shall prove that our schemes
have prospered.

I have now the pleasure to announce that from the Funds which His
Majesty's Secretary of State has put at my disposal from the King's
Casual Revenue, I shall appropriate L25 to each of the County
Societies for the present year subject to the regulations and
conditions already established; and I will not fail to intercede
for a continuance of this Royal Bounty, if I can report success in
our labours.