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science and every worthy citizen. They will unite their mutual aids to render the foundation of it solid and permanent. The good of the community, the welfare of our fellow creatures, and the common ties of humanity will suggest the most powerful arguments in favour of it, with every person of a patriotic generous disposition. When, by an early and well placed assistance, every one of us may contribute to save the lives of thousands; of thousands yet unborn; and, in some sense, give being to thousands more who shall spring from them; who does not feel himself warmly engaged in a design of such public utility?
The conscious reflection of contributing to instruct the rising generation, and to form them for public service, of cultivating the healing arts amongst us, and thus aswaging the calamities of disease, and relieving many miserable objects who labour under a load of poverty and sickness, cannot fail of giving an exalted pleasure to a benevolent mind. They experience it in the highest degree, who are most blessed with the refined sentiments of a tender and feeling humanity.
The present Æra will be ever memorable in the annals of history, for the reputation of British valour, and the success and glory of the British arms, as well as distinguished by the reign of a King, the boast
