"to assure Your Royal Highness, that our gratitude shall be "manifested by the pursuit of those studies, and the cultivation "of those arts and sciences, by which Peace is best adorned and

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prolonged. It shall be our constant endeavour to inform and improve the youth committed to our care, and to establish in "their minds, on the sure basis of Reason and Revelation, the "sacred duties of public and private life. It is thus that we

hope to train up the rising generation in the principles of in"violable loyalty to the Throne, and of affectionate veneration "for that happy Constitution, which has been our safeguard "in this long season of trial;-the admiration of other na❝tions, the theme of their gratitude, and the object of their " imitation.

"That Your Royal Highness and Your August Allies may long enjoy the satisfaction arising from Your enlightened "views and heroic achievements in the cause of suffering hu"manity, by seeing Your dominions flourishing, Your subjects

happy, and the world at peace, is the devout and fervent

prayer of Your Royal Highness's ancient and loyal University "of Oxford.

"Given at our House of Convocation, under our Common

Seal, this thirteenth day of June, in the year of our "Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen."

His Royal Highness was pleased to return the following most

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gracious Answer, a copy of which he delivered into the hands of the Chancellor :

"I receive, with peculiar satisfaction, in this place, and on "this occasion, the renewal of those assurances of Attachment "and Loyalty, which have been so frequently addressed to the "Throne by the University of Oxford.

"It is a splendid addition to the glorious Events of this auspicious æra, that the great Sovereigns, whose personal Ex"ertions and Example have so eminently contributed to the "Success of our common Counsels, both in the prosecution "of the War, and in the conclusion of Peace, should have "allowed themselves to forego, for a while, the gratulations "which await their return to their own Dominions, previously "to witness in this Country that Ebullition of general Joy, “which the result of their Magnanimity has spread throughout "the Nations of Europe.

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Amongst those of our Institutions which have attracted the "notice of my Illustrious Guests, none can deserve it more "than the Establishments which now surround me; formed

by the wisdom and piety of our ancestors for the cultivation "of those liberal studies, by which a succession of able and en

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lightened men are trained for the service of the State, and "the maintenance of its invaluable Constitution.

"You have shewn in the hour of danger that those peaceful “and sacred duties were not inconsistent with preparations for "armed resistance against the efforts of that inordinate ambi"tion which threatened the destruction of all that was worth preserving in this favoured Country.

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"That crisis is happily past: the principles here inculcated "have now triumphed. The recognition of moral duties, of "social order, and legitimate authority, has pacified and united Europe.

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"The presence of my August Allies, their moderation in the " moment of Victory, and the harmony which subsists between "the Restorers and the Restored, are the best pledge of the ❝ duration of that Peace, which is the reward of all our efforts "and sacrifices. It will always be my earnest wish to conso“lidate and maintain it.-May it long continue to diffuse over "this ancient Seat of Learning and Religion the means of cultivating those arts and sciences, which are its best and brightest ornament.”

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The Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor, and Proctors had then the honour to kiss the Prince Regent's hand.

From the Divinity School the Chancellor conducted His

Royal Highness the Prince Regent in his Lordship's carriage to Christ Church; where, on his alighting, the Dean addressed His Royal Highness in the following congratulatory speech :

"MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS!

"Permit me, Sir, to express to you, in the name of this Society, the happiness which we feel in receiving you within our "walls.

"We welcome Your Royal Highness first as the Represen"tative of that August Sovereign, whose immediate and espe"cial protection we have so long gratefully acknowledged. "But we feel, if we may be permitted without offence to avow "it, a more than common interest in the virtues and talents of "Your Royal Highness, because two amongst the most emi"nent of those learned persons who have heretofore presided "over us, had so distinguished a share in Your Royal High"ness's education.

"We have always looked forward with anxious hope to the 'high honour, which the visit of Your Royal Highness now "confers upon us. But never surely could we have received

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you with more pride and pleasure, than at a moment, when you come to us amidst the acclamations of the nation, and "surrounded, as you are, by Sovereigns and by Warriors,

"whose arms and counsels, in conjunction with those of Great

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Britain, as directed by Your Royal Highness, have liberated "the civilized world."

To this Address His Royal Highness was pleased to return a most gracious Answer; after which, at the desire of His Royal Highness, the Dean presented such of the Members of the Chapter as were present §.

His Royal Highness then proceeded to the Deanery.

In the mean time, the Emperor of Russia, with his Sister Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Catharine, and the King of Prussia, together with the distinguished Persons respectively in attendance upon them, had arrived in Oxford. The Emperor was received at Merton College by the Warden, and the King at Corpus Christi College by the President. The Chancellor, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, and Proctors, being then in waiting on His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, immediately proceeded, by His Royal Highness's permission, to the Warden's

8 The Rev. Dr. Barnes, Sub-Dean.

The Rev. Dr. Burton.

The Rev. Dr. Hay.

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Oxford.

The Rev. Dr. Smith.

The Rev. Dr. Van Mildert.