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I cannot, 
however, 
close 
this 
Discourse, 
Without 
acknowledging 
debt 
due 
from 
this 
Academy, as Well as that which is due to the 
Academy itself. Soon after His present Majesty 
had ascended the 
throne, 
his 
benign regard for 
the 
Prosperity 
the 
of 
arts 
in 
these 
realms 
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manifested 
by 
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gracious 
commands 
to 
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establish this favoured 
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The heart of every artist, 
and of the friend- 
glowed 
of art, 
with mutual congratulation to see 
a British 
Kine, 
bx 
for the first time, 
at the head of 
the 
fine 
arts. 
His 
Majesty 
nominated 
forty 
members 
guardians to his infant 
academy 5 
and 
that they have been 
faithful 
to 
the 
trust which 
he 
graciouslv 
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reposed 
in 
them, 
the 
sever:-11 
apaltments under this roof sufficiently testify. 
The professors are highly endowed with accom- 
plishments 
and 
scientific 
kqowledge 
in 
the 
several branches to which 
they are 
respectively 
appointed ;v 
and the funds 
able 
to 
render 
relief 
their widows 
to the indigent and decayed artists, 
and children.