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Architecture was one of the King's favourite studies; but its being an art was recommendation enough for that great Monarch to encourage it. The plan on which this academy was formed, was finely imagined to secure a perpetual protection. It consisted of a President, with a salary of two thousand pounds a year; Gilbert was the first: Six^[1] senior and twelve^[2] junior professors, the former five, and the latter three hundred pounds a year each. What a noble institution was this. Worthy the Monarch who formed the out-line, and the Minister that finished the design.^[3] George had the satisfaction of seeing

1. The first instituted were Comins, Holt, Moor, Brown, Salviola the Spaniard, and Stevens:
2. James, Philipson, Padrao an Italian, Rickson, Manly, Hare, Thompson, Johnson, Weal, Place, Richards, and Stephenson.
3. Duke of Suffolk.

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