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DOCUMENTS

RBLA.TING TO

KING'S COLLEGE, NOVA SCOTIA.

No. 279.

(Copy.)

Downing Street, I3th August, 1851.

Sir, — With reference to the Act passed in the last Session of the
Legislat! 'e of Nova Scotia, for withdrawing the annual grant from
King's College, Windsor, T transmit to you the copy of a memorid
which I have received against it from the Society for promoting
Christian Knowledge.

2. While I regret the decision of the Legislature to withdraw the
grant hitherto made for the support of the College, I cannot but re-
cognize the full right of that body to object to the continuance of
such a grant from the Revenue of the Province, if the Institution is
not regarded as producing advantages to the public equivalent to the
cost incurred for it.

3. I am, therefore, not prepared to advise Her Majesty to with-
hold her assent from the measure in question, provided it can be
shown that du». regard has been paid to vested interests.

4. But I have to call your attention to a statement in the memorial
from the College, transmitted to me in Sir John Harvey's despatch
of 14th May last, to the effect that the President and one at least of
the Professors have been induced to leave other situations on the
faith of the continuance of that permanent provision which the Act
of 1787 appeared to have guaranteed.

5. If this statement is well founded, it would be my duty to ad-
vise Her Majesty to disallow the Act, unless it were amended by
making some provision for the President and existing Professors
during their lives, or while they continue to discharge the duties of
their office.

I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,

Grby.
The Officer Administering tiie Government j
of Nova Scotia. /

(Cupy.)

To the Ri^'ht Honorable Earl Grey, Her Majesty's Principal

Secretury of State for the Colonies. The Memorial of the

Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, respectfully

sheweth —

That when his late Majesty King George thf; Third was pleased,

in the year 1787, to found the first Colonial Bishopric in the British

dominions, bv erecting the Province of Nova Scotia into an Episcopal

See, it was thought essential to the object of that foundation that

provision should b3 made towards procuring the blessings; of a sound

religious and general education within tlie Province, and accordingly

the attention of the Lieutenant-Governor was immediately called to

the subject bv special ipstructions from ti.e Crown.

That in compliance with these instructions measures were adopted
for the establishment of Kh.g's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, aid,
was generously afforded bv the Provincial Legislature, and m the
year 1789 an Act was passed by the local Government, securing by
law an annual payment of four hundred pounds oterUng, to be made
yearly and every year for the permanent endowment and effectual
support of the College, as expressly declared by the said Act. Thia
annual sum has been regularly paid since the year 1790, but in the
present year this grant has 'been repea'-d by the local Legislature,
and the existence of the College thereby endangered.

That in reliance on the permanence of the said grant, as guaran-
teed by the State, large pecuniary assistance has from time to time
been rendered to the College by Societies and individuals ; and that
the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge has made consider-
able grants in pioportion to its means for that object.

That all efforts which have thus been made for the promotion of
the designs for which *^e College was instituted will be in vain, un-
less the Act now passt by the local Legislature be disallowed by Her
Majesty.

That the Institution has continued during successive years to an-
swer the purposes of its foundation. Religious education, according
to the principles and discipline of the Established Church, having
always been afforded within the walls of King's College, where most
of the Episcopal Clergy of the Province, and many now faithfully
labouring in other places, have been diligently instructed, and that
there can be no reasonable hope of providing a supply of men equally
prepared for their important work to succeed them in the ministry if
the present means of support be withheld from the College.

Considering, therefore, the importance of this object to the best
interests of the Colony, your Memorialists earnestly and humbly pray
that Her Majesty will be graciously pleased to disallow the said Act.
(Signed) J- B. Cantuar,

President of the Society for promoting
Christian Knowledge.

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No. 17.

(Copy.)
Government House, Halifax, June 3. 1852.

Sin,— I have the honour to transmit, to be laid before the Queen,
the enclosed Address to Her Majesty from the House of Assembly of
this Province, received this day. praying Her Majesty, for the reasons
stated in the Address, to leave to its operation the Act passed by the
Legislature of Nova Scotia in the first Session of the year 18-51, for
discontinuing the Provincial Grant ii King's College, Windsor.

I also transmit, to accompany th? i Address, a Memorial of the
Governors, President and Fellows of the College, dated 7th May.
1852, with enclosures; — a communication dated 5th idem, from the
Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia, and a Memorial
from the Associated Alumui of King's College, dated 13th May, 1852.

I have, &c.

(Signed) John Bazalgette, Administrator.

The Risrht Honorable John S. Pakington, Bart.

(Copy.)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, May oth, \8o2.

Sir —As Visitor of King's College, Windsor, in my Diocese, 1
be"- leave to offer some remarks upon the Address lately adopted by
the House of Assembly of this Province, praying Her Majesty to give
Her Roval Assent to an Act passed m the Session of 1851, to de-
prive the said College of a large part of its endowments.

You will observe, in the first place, that there is no attempt in this
long Address to meet Lord Grey's objections to the Act, as stated in
his Lordship's Despatch of Aug. I3th. l8ol, or to show that " due
re-ard has been paid to vested interests." No answer is given to
the statement mentioned in Clause 4 of the Despatch ; and they re-
fuse to make the provision required in Clause 5, in default of which
his Lordship stated " that it would be his duty th advise Her Ma-
iesty to disallow the Act." I doubt not, therefore, that in this matter
you will at least cari-y out the d^.clared intention of your predecessor,
and that inasmuch as the conditions enjoined have not been com-
plied with, the Act will be absolutely disallowed.

But I venture also to express a hope. Sir, that you wil Jo more
than this, and on a full consideration of the whole case, will '.epu^
diate Lord Grey's recognition of the right of the Legislatuix, to with-
draw the grant, and will declare that you cannot sanction the pro-

po-'ed withdrawal, involving as it docs u breach of faith and disregard
of public pledges, even though the interests of existing office-bearers
should be provided for. Fur full information upon the character and
claims of the College, I beg to refer you to the Memorial from the
Governors, transmitted in May last, and noticed in the despatch; to
that from the Society for promoting Christias Knowledge, accom-
panying it, and to the Memorials from the Arciibishop of Canterbury
as Patron, and from myself as visitor, addressed to his Lordship in
,Tune last. In tlie Address. Clause 2, it is stated. " that the College
has long ceased to realise the objects for which it was endowed."
This statement is unsupported by any evidence whatever. On the
contrary, it may be clearly proved that'it is still, andalwavshas been,
conducted upon the ])rinciples on which it was founded andendowed by
the Legislature. That it was to be an Institution closelv c nnected
with the Church of England is evident, for by the Act of 1789 the
Bishop is appointed an Official Governor, and it is enacted that " the
President is alwnys to be a Clergyman of the Established Chvrch of
England." But though thus characterized, it is not conducted in any
exclusive spirit, for though the Professors mjst be members of the
Church of England, the only qualifications for the admission of
students are " competent skill in the Greek and Latin languages, and
ability to construe the books usually read bv bovs in the higher classes
in the public schools in Great Britain." Subscription to the Articles
was indeed required by Statutes provisionally framed in 1803, but
they were disallowed, and the obnoxious clause expunged within

/three years, so that in fact the requirement has never lieen part of
the law of the College. This modification, moreover, was not made
in consequence of any pressure from without, but by the Archbishop
of Canterbury as Patron, under the authority conferred by the Char-
ter, at the urgent solicitation of the Bishop of this Diocese, who had
strenuously objected to the clause when first proposed by the Board
of Governors.

Address, Clause 3. The ex-officio Governors appointed by the
Charter were those previously named in the Act, with one addition,
the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Thus far it cannot be pretended
that the spirit of the Act was violated, though the language of the
Address might lead to the supposition that an entirely different
Board had been appointed. The only real difference was a permis-
sion to elect four others, including the President of the College, and
I submit that this addition could not possibly " neutralize and defeat
the policy of the Board proposed by the Act/' for they are only four,
and are to be elected by that very Board of eight ex-officio Gover-
nors, and one of them is to be the President, appointed by them-
selves. At the present moment, I may add, that one of the four is
also Governor ex-officio, being Her Majesty's Attorney General.

Address, Clause 4. I have no means of ascertaining the relative
proportions of the various denominations in 1789, but I beg you to

observe this fact, that in the year 1758 the Lepisl'iture of tliis Tro-
vince enacted that " the sacred rites and ceremonies of Divine Wor-
ship according to the Liturgy of the Church, established by the laws
of England, shall be deemed the fixed form of worship amongst us ;"
which enactment continued in force until repealed on the revision of
the Statutes last year.

Address, Clause 5. The Institution at Pictou was established
simply as an Academy for the benefit of the eastern part of the Pro-
x'ince. and on this ground it was aided by some of the most zealous
members of the Church at that time in the Council. The allusions
to •■ a more liberal and enlightened management, &c.," are met by
my observations on Clause 2. But I would ask how it is that four
Educational Institutir.ns. beside King's College, have sprung up ?
i^ur i*^ " i;be other religious denominations v.ere alienated from
K.",i5g'<.' CDllege by the exclusive s|)irit and invidious preferences ma-
il t'tcitec' n it3 rnanagement," surely " one other institution under a
more iioeral aud euli^htened management, would have been more
beneficial than four.

A luress, Clauses 6 & 7. The relative proportions of the several
denor:iinalions atpre'^eut .la not affejt the question at issue, for it is
certain thai our nurcbsr is greater, and our contributions to the Re-
venu.^ much larger n w than when the permanent endowment was
first granted. We have not the slightest wish to interfere with
other institutions, neither should we complain of any increpse in the
sums granted to them. We only claim for ourselves what has been
granted to us in perpetuity, as it is expressed in the Address,
" under a permanent Act of the Legislature."

Address, Clause 8. Other Institutions of a " kindred character"
are mentio :?d, but they are not in existence, — those referred to are
merely Academies or Grammar Schools, whereas King's College is
constituted a University by Royal Charter, with power to confer
degrees, and all corresponding privileges. We have indeed, in con-
nexion with the College, a Collegiate School, to prepare Students
for the higher department, and it is to this alone that the Academies
can be properly compared.

Address, Clause 9. I earnestly pray you to consider the mischief
likely to result from the admission of the "full right" of the Legis-
lature to withdraw an endowment guaranteed by itself — for if this
principle is sanctioned, public faith in this Province will henceforth
be a delusion ; moreover, the honor of the Crown itself is concerned,
for the Charter especially recites the endowment as part of the foun-
dation on which it rests. And, indeed, the grant of a Charter, con-
stituting a University, where no endov^'ment was secured, would have
been altogether anomalous, and without precedent. Although Colo-
nial Legislatures may "regret" that a regard to vested interests is
enforced, I trust that the day is yet fur distant when English States-
men wilt sanction a neglect of the claims of men, who, having relin-

quished other (•ppointmenfs for the sake of their prenent situations.
are diiujently and faithfully performing their duties. Regard should
also be paid to the vested interests of the numerous Graduates of
this University, as well as of the Professors.

Address, Clause 10. Although the Salaries of the Officers of the
College amount to a larger Sum than the Grarjt, it is only by its
aid that they can be made up, for though ihey have been reduced to
the lowest amount compatible with the great object of obtaining
well (jualiricd men, the total income of the College is even now barely
adequfite to the expenditure.

The suggestion, that the Governors who were authorized and
required both by the Act and Charter to appomt Oilicers, should
now be respon^^ible for the remuneration, is too unreasonable to
deserve any notice.

Address, Clause 1 1 . The Grant of £1000 per annum was merely
an annual Grant without any pledge or guarantf^e for its perma-
nency, consequently its withdrawal is no precedent whatever for the
course pursued by the Legislature of this Province.

Address, Clause 12, This Clause is a summary of the misrepre-
sentations contained in the former part of the Address, and, as I
humbly conceive, exposed and fully refuted above. For I have
proved that the Act did not " contemplate a different Board of
Governors," and that the College was by its Constitution evidently
intended '* to be chiefly managed and controlled by one body of
Christians," though open to all. The statement that it is r.othing
more than a respectable High School, is a gross calumny, which I
have already refuted in my observations on Clause 8 ; and I can
moreover testify from my own knowledge, that the standard of quali-
fications for a degree here is not lower than for an ordinary degree
in the English Universities.

The mention for an " annual" grant of £250, is likely to mislead,
as it was expressly limited to one year.

I must also object to the mode in which this Address was intro-
duced and passed. It was only proposed on the last day of the
Session, a few hours before the prorogation, so that no opportunity
was afforded for discussion or amendment.

In conclusion, I venture to affirm, that the whole Province has
been and is materially benefitted by King's College, where many of
the principal ornaments of all the learned professions here have been
educated ; and if it is sacrificed to the miserable feelings of jealousy
which tempt men to destroy what they are unable to emulate, I
believe that an irreparable injury will be inflicted upon the Colony,
and the most talented young men, and the sons of all the principal
inhabitants, will be sent to England for their education, and will
finally be induced to remain there, deserting their native country —
an evil, the diead of which appears to have influenced Mr. Grenville

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and the other Statesmen of the dnv, when tliey determined to afford
all possible encouragement to Kin^^'s College.

As the Act of 18.'^ I was passed without amy suspending clause, I
venture to sugj^cst that it is very desirable that it should be dis-
allowed as soon as you can conveniently advise Her Majesty to
declare her disallowance thereof.

I have, &c..
(Signed) II. Novascotia.

The Right Ildiiornhle
Sir JuiiN S. Pakinuion, lian., &c., kc, kc.

No. 5.

(Copy.)

Downing Street, I5th July, 1852.

Sir— I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, No. 1 7,
of the 3rd June last, transmitting an Address to Her Majesty from
the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia, praying that the Act of
1851, for the discontinuing the Provincial Grant to King's College,
Windsor, may be left to its operation, together with counter Peti-
tions from the Governors, President, and Alumni of the College, and
a letter to the same effect from the Bishop of Nova Scotia.

I have to desire that you will inform the Assembly, that I have
laid their Address before the Queen, and that Her Majesty has been
pleased to receive it very graciously, but that I have been unable to
advise Her Majesty to accede to the prayer of it, as I feel compelled
to adhc7-e to the Resolution expressed by my predecessor in his Despatch
to Sir Jonn Hervey, of the 13th August, No. 279, as regards the
provision which it is necessary to secure for certain vested interests
before leaving the Act in question to its operation.

I have, &c.,

(Signed)

John S. Pakinoton.

Lieutenant-Governor Sm J. Gaspard I.e Marchant, or
the Officer administering the Government of Nova Scotin.

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(J<OTK.)—ne following arc lopies [received 9ih Feby., 1853) of
certain Documents forwarded and refernd to in Colonel Bazalaett/s
Despatch, No. 17. dated June 3rd, 1852. to Sir 'ohn Pakmgton, Bart.

Fro. Secy's Office, 10th "el)y., 1853.

To the Riirht Honorable Her Majesty's Secretary of State for
the Colonics. The Memorial of the Governors. President,
and l-cilows of Kin-'s College at Windsor, in the Province
of IV ova bcotja, respertfully sheweth —

That they beg leave respectfully .o submit to the Right HonorabI*
the Secretary of btate for the Colonies, the Copy of a Memorial
addressed by them to his predecessor, requesting that Her Majesty
would be graciously pleased to ^Jisallow an Act passed la^t year by
the 1 rovinciui Legislature, to discontinue the grant made by a uer-
ma^ent Law. in the year 1789. to that Institution.

the Right Honorable Earl Grey was pleased to state, in answer to
t lat Memorial that he admitted the full right of the Legislature to
withdraw the ..rant if the College had failed to fulfil the object for
which It was established, but he could not adv.se Her Majest- to
allow the Act. unless provision were made for those officer i who
would thereby be deprived of the means (.f subpistence.

Had the College failed to fulfil the object for which it was esta-
blished, tl-.o Governors would not advocate its continuance, but this
IS by no means the case. The -majority of the Legislature of the
present day appear to think that the College at Windsor was origin-
ally drsigne( for all classes and creeds. It is so stated in the
Address which passed the House of Assembly at the close of the late
feess.on. liut tlmt opinion is altogether srroneous. When the first
bishop of Nova Scotia arrived here, in the month of October, 1787,
he found himself surrounded by a la^ge number of his fellow Loyal-
ists. who had tak-^n refuge in Nova Scotia, many of whom were
Members of the Legislature and of the Church of England. He
ana they, felt the want of the means of educating their children in
the principles of the Clmrch. and by their joint exertions the Act
providing tor the establishment of King's College at Windsor, passed
the Legislature in April, 178.9. .ia»»cu

The Act placed the Government of the College in seven public
()fficers. among whom was the Bishop. All those Ofl^cers were
then Churchmen, as were their successors for many years ; and it
was expressly enacted that the President should always be a Clergy- ■
*":''! 1 J f .^^"'"^ ""^ England, which had been declared to be the
established Hel|gion of this Province, by an Act passed in the first
bession of the General Assembly in 1 7.-)8.

The College from its erection was always considered and governed
as an Institution connected with the Church and when, many vears
ago. the Governors passed a Statute obliging Student, to sign the
3J Articles at matriculation, not a voice was even ruised against

that iiieasurp iu the Legislature, which would have been a st.ange
neglect of duty had it been as is now asserted, an Institution
intended for all classes an'^. creeds. Many Churchmen, and the
Bishop among them, thought this Statute very injudicious, and ii
was subsequently repealed, not because it was deemed inconsistent
with the principles upon which thp Institution was established, but
because the Governors becOiiC convinced that by excluding the sons
of Dissenters, they prevented them from becoming acquainted with
the doctrine and discipline of the Church, which they would Irarn at
King's College, and which the more they art known the better they
will be appreciated.

The Governors confidently assert, that King's College has not
failed in its object. The greai. body '' our Clergy have been edu-
cated the,-e ; many of the most disti'n/. bed members of the Bench
and the Bar, in tliM and the neighho-nmg Colonies, are among its
Alumni, and it can boast of several others engaged in the varioua
walks of life.

It was still pursuing its useful course, when, without a complaint
alleged against it, this attempt was made to withdraw the provision
tor its support.

The plea alleged for this harsh measure, is, that the rat^mbers r,i
the Church are now, ard always have been, a minority of the popu-
lation. If they always have been in a minority, which may he
doubted, the Dissenters of u former day dealt more liberally with
them than their surccssors. That Churchmen are now in a minority
IS admitted, and we regret that we have such cause to lament it. A
large portion of the Country was a wilderness when the Act of 1789
passed ; that wilderness has since been peopled by emigration vron.
Scotland and Ireland, in consequence of which the Presbyterians and
members of the Church of Rome now outnumber any other denomi-
nation in the I'rovince.

But though Chu-jhmen have received but little addition to their
numbers from this source, they still form a respectable body, much
more numerous at this day than they were iu 1 789, and they feel
It a seriouB evil that an Institution which they have long fostered,
Ef.d v;hich has become endeared to so many of them as their Alma
Mater, should thus be threatened "ith dest-'uction.

The members of the Church do not object to grants to other deno-
minations, in such proportion r.s the Legislature may deem fit. but
they feel it a grievance to be deprived of the sum which was perma-
nently granted to them out of a Revenue of about £8000 a year
when that Revenue has increased to upwards of £100,000, to which
they largely contribute.

They are still desirous of combining instruction in the prinnnlog
of Religion with secular knowledge, and therefore wish to presei e
an Institution in which they know that object will always be kept in
view, and the existence of which ia deemed by its opponents t.j pre-

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sent a great obstacle to the estublishment of one great College, from
which all religious instruction wiU be banished.

Ill addition to .hese observations, the Governors of King s College
resi)ectfully submit the language of the Royal Charter to the con-
sideration of the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the
Colonies — which thus commences and terminates :

•• George the Third, by the Grace of God, of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the
Faith, to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting : —

•' Whereas v e have declared our Royal intention to establish within
our Province of Nova Scotia, in North America, a College for the
education of youth in the principles of true Religion, and for their
instruction in the different branches of Science and Literatuie which
are taught in our Universities in this Kingdom.

" And whereas the Sum of four thousand pounds granted by our
Parliament in that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain,
hath been applied in erecting a suitable building within the Town of
Windsor in our said Province, on a piece of land which had been
purchased by means of a Grant of the General Assembly of our said
Province for that purpose.

" And whereas the said building hath been fitted for the residence
of Professors and Students, and an endowment of * Four hundred
pounds currency of that Province (equal to Three hundred and sixty
pounds British sterling) per annum hath been granted for the support
thereof by the General Assembly. ^

" And lastly, we do hereby promise and declare for us, our heirs,
and successors, that we and they shall and will at all times hereafter
give and grant to the aforesaid Governors, President, and Fellows,
and their successors, such other reasonable powers and authorities
as may be necessary for the government of the said College, and
more effectual execution of the premises."

They also beg to turn the attention of the Secretary of State to
the annexed letter, dated "London, 1st June, 1802," and signed by
" Scrope Bernard, M.P.," " Jos. Planta," " William WiU^erforce,
INI.P." and " John Wilmot," in which the views of the friends of the
Institution were in that day so clearly expressed to their brother
Churchmen in England, who were thereby induced to contribute
liberally to its support and advancement.

The Governors of King's College trust that this statement will
convince the Right Honourable the^Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies that the Institution has not failed to fulfil its object— that ' ■ has
acquired a vested right in the sum thus granted to it— and they

• Errata.— The amount by the Provincial Act is £iii: 10s. 10^(1, currency,
r ipial tn £ 100 sterling.

humbly conceive that it would be inconsistent with the honour of the
Crown to assent to bn act which would deprive it of that right, and
will probably destroy that Institution founded by the Provincial Le-
gislature and fostered by the Crown.

In conclusion, they would remark, that the Assemhli/ have not only
failed to provide for the oncers alluded to in Lord Grey's despatch,
but have suggested that the burthen of doing so should be thrown upon
the Governors, whom they vmild deprive of the means of discharging
that or any other of those duties which they have always gratuitously
performed.

The Governors respectfully remind the Right Honorable the Se-
cretary of State for the Colonies, that unless her Majesty's dissent
to this Act is expressed before three years elapse from the tiwe c' its
passing, it will b-tjome law.

And, as in duty bound, your Memorialists will ever pray, &c.

In the name and by the order of the Governors, President,
and Fellows of King's College, at Windsor, in the Pro-
vince of Nova Scotia.

(College Seal.)

Halifax, N. S., May 7ih, 1852.

John C. Halliburton,
Secretary of King's College, at Windsor.

Copy of His Majesty'' s Royal Charter for Founa'ng and Incorporating
King's College., at Windsor, in the Province of Nova Scotia, dated
Uth May, 42nd George III., 1802.

George the Third, by the Grace of God, of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the
Faith, to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting : —

Whereas we have declared our Royal Intention to establish within
our Province of Nova Scotia, in North America, a College for the
education of youth in the principles of true Religion, and for their
instruction in the different branches of Science and Literature which
are taught at our Universities in this Kingdom.

And whereas the sum of Four thousand pounds, granted by our
Parliament in that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain,
hath been applied in erecting a suitable Building within the Town of
Windsor, in our said Province, on a piece of land which had been
purchased by means of a grant of the General Assembly of our
said Province for that purpose.

And whereas the said Building hath been fitted for the residence
of Professors and Students, and an endowment of Four hundred

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pounds currency of that Province (equal to Three hundred and sixty
pound.* British sterling) per annum, hath been granted for the
support thereof, by the said General Assembly.

y^«^H.W/s humble application hath been mude to us by many
ot our lovmg subjects in our said Province, that we would be pleaded
to grant our Royal Charter for the more perfect establishment of the
said Lollege, and for incorporating the members thereof for the
purposes aforesaid, and for sujh other endowment thereof as to us
should seem meet.

We having taken the premises into our Roval consideration, and
duly weighing the great utility and importance of such an institu-
tion are willing and desirous to condescend to their request : Know
ye. therefore, that we. of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and
mere motion, nave willed, ordained, and granted, and do by these
presents for us. our heirs, and successors, will, ordain, and grant
that upon the said land, and in the building or buildings so erected'
or to be erected thereon at our tow- of Windsor, in our said Pro-'
vince of Nova Scotia, there shall be established from this time one
College the^mother of an University, for the education and instruction
ot vouth and students, in arts and faculties, to continue for ever •
and to be called King's College: and that our trusty and well-
beloved Sir John Wentworth, Baronet, Lieutenant-Governor of our
said Province or the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor of our said
Province for the time being; the Right Reverend Father in God.
Charles Inglis. Bishop of the Diocese of Nova Scotia, or the Bishop
of the said Diocese for the time being; our tru.tv and well-beloved
bampson Salter Blowers, Chief Justice of our said Province of Nova
ocotm, or the Ohief ..ustice of our said Province for the time beinjr •
°?Vr"'^'I .^"'^ well-beloved Alexander Croke. Judge of our Court
of Vice-Admiralty in Nova Scotia, or the Judge of our Court of
V^ice-Admiralty in our said Province for the time being; our trustv
and wel beloved Richard Jo^n Uniacke, Speaker of our House of
Assembly and Attorney-General of our said Province of Nova Scotia
or the Speaker of our House of Assemblv and the Attornev-General
for our said Province severally for the time being ; our trusty and
well--beloved James Stewart, Solicitor- General of our said Province
or the So icitor. General of the said Province for the time being; our
truscy and well-beloved Benning Wentworth. Secretary of our said
Provmce of Nova Scotia, or the Secretarv of our said Province for
the time being, together with such other" person or persons as shall
be elected in manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be Governors of
the said College, and that the said College shall consist of one Pre-
sident, th^-ee or more Fellows and Professors, and twelve or more
Scholars, at such salaries, and subject to such provisions, regulations
limitations, rules, qualifications, and restrictions as shall he.-eafter
be appointed by the statutes, rules, and ordinances of the said
College, and until such statutes, rules, and oidihances shall have

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been franipcl, subject in all respects to the orders and directions, and
eligible and removable at the pleasure of the said Governors, or of
the major part of them. And that the said Governors, or the'major
part of them, shall have the power of electing the President of the
said College for the time being, to he a Governor of the said CoUen-e,
and also of electing any other person or pt. jons, not exceeding three
m number (subject to such regulations as shall be appointed^v the
statutes, rules, and ordinances of the said College) to be a governor
or governors of the said College.

And we do by these presents, for us. our heirs and successors
wil , ordam and grant that the said Governors, President and
tellows, and their successors for ever, shall be one distinct and sepa-
rate body politic and corporate, iii deed and in name, bv the name
and style of the Governors, President and Fellows of King' Colle"-e
at Windsor, in the Province of iNova Scotia ; and that by the same
name they shall have perpetual succession, and a common seal, and
that they and their successors shall, from time to time, have full
po\yer to break, alter, make new, or change, such common seal, at
their will and pleasure, and as shall be found expedient ; and that by
the said name the said Governors. President and Fellows, and their
successors, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, shall be a
body politic and corporate, in deed and in law. and be able and
capable to have, take, receive, purchase, acquire, hold, possess, en-
joy, and retain ; and we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors
give and grant full authority and free licence to them and their sue-'
cessors by the name aforesaid, to have, take, receive, purchase, ac
quire, hold, possess, enjoy and retain, to and for the use o*^ the said
College, notwithstanding any statutes or statute of mortn^ain, any
manors, rectories, advowsons, messuages, lands, tenements, rent«
and hereditameiics of what kind, nature or qualitv soever, so as that
the same do not exceed in yearly value the sum of six thousand
pounds above all charges : and moreover, to take, purchase, acqui-e
have, liold, enjoy, receive, possess and retain, notwithstanding any
such statutes or statute to the contrary, all or anv goods chattels
charitable and other contributions, gift's and benefactions whatsoever •
and that the said Governors, President and Fellows, and their succesl
sors, by the same name, shall and may be able and capable in law to
sue and oe sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered
m a.l or any court, or courts of record, or places of judicature within
our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and our said
1 rovmce of Nova Scotia, and other our dominions, and in all and
singular actions, causes, pleas, suits, matters and demands whatso-
ever in what kind, or nature, or son oever, in as large, ample and
benehcial manner and form as any other body politic and corporate
or any other our liege subjects, being persons able and capable in
law, may or can have., take, purchase, receive, hold, possess, enjoy

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retain, sue, implead or answer, or be sued, impleaded, or answered
in any manner whatsoever.

And we do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors,
will, ordain and /^rant that the governors of the said College, or the
major part of them, shall have power and authority to frame and
make statrtes, rules and ordinances, touching and concerning the
good government of the said College, the performance of divine
service therein, the studies, lectures, exercises, degrees in aris and
faculties, and all matters regarding the same ; the election, qualifi-
cation and residence of the President, Fellows, and Scholars ; the mr.-
nageraent of the revenues and property of the said College ; the
salaries, stipends and provision for the President, Fellows, Scholars
and officers of the said College : and also touching and concerning
any other matter or thing which to them shall seem good, fit, useful,
and agreeable to this our Charter : and also from time to time to
revoke, augment, or alter all, every or any of the said statutes, rules,
and ordinances, as to them, or the major part of them, shall seem
meet and expedient. Provided, that the said statutes, rules and or-
dinances, or any of them, shall not be repugnant to the laws and
statutes of this our realm, and of our said Province of Nova Scotia ;
provided also, that the said statutes, rules and ordinances, or any
revocation, augmentation or alteration thereof be subject to the ap-
probation of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury for the time being,
and shall be forthwith transmitted to the said Lord Archbishop for
that purpose ; and that in case the said Lord Archbishop shall sig-
nify, in writing, his disapprobation thereof within three years of the
time of their being so made and framed, or of their being so '•evoked,
augmented, or altered, the same, or such part thereof as shall be so
disapproved by the said Lord Archbishop, shall, from the time of
such disapproi3ation being made known, be utterly void and of no
efFect, but otherwise shall be and remain in full force and virtue.

And we do hereby, for us, our heirs and successors, charge and
command that the statutes, rules and ordinances aforesaid, subject to
the said provisions, shall be strictly and inviolably observed, kept
and performed, from time to time, so long as they shall respectively
remain in full vigour and eflfect, under the penalties to be thereby or
therein inflicted or contained.

And we do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, will,
order, direct, and appoint that the said Lord Archbishop of Canter-
bury for the time being be Patron of the said College, and ihe Bishop
of Nova Scotia for the time being shall be Visitor of the said College.
And we do further will, ordain and grant that the said College
shah be deemed and taken to be an University, and shall have and
enjoy all such and the like privileges as are enjoyed by other Uni-
versities in our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as far
as the same are capable of being had and enjoyed, by virtue of these
our letters patent. And that the students in the said College

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shall have liberty and faculty of taking the degrees of Bachelor,
Master and Doctor in the several arts and faculties at the appointed
times; an shall have liberty within themselves of performing all
scholastic exercises for the conferring such degrees, in such manner
as shall be directed by the statutes, rules and ordinances of the said
College.

And we will, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and succes-
sors, do grant find declare, that these our letters patent, vr the eu-
roinient or exempKfications thereof, shall and may be good, firm,
valid, sufficient and effectual in the law, according to the true intent
and meaning of the same, and shall be taken, construed and ad-
judged in th-i most favourable and beneficial sense, for the best ad-
vantage of tne said Governors, President and Fellows of the said Col-
lege at Windsor aforesaid, as well in all our courts of record as
elsewhere, and by all and singular judges, justices, o.ficers, ministers,
and other subjects whatsoever, of us, our heirs and successors, any
mis-recital, non-recital, omission, imperfection, defect, matter, cause
or thing whatsoever to che contrary thereof in anywise notwithstand-
ing, without fine or fee, great or small, to be for the same in any
manner rendered, done or paid to us in our Hanaper, or elsewhere to
our use.

And lastly, we do hereby premise and declare, for us, our heirs
and successors, that we and they shall and will, at all times here-
after,give and grant to the aforesaid Governors, President and Fellows,
and their successors, such other reasonable powers and authorities as
may be necessary for the government of the said College, and the
more effectual execution of the premises.

In witness whereof we have caused these our letters to be made
patent. — Witness ourself at Westminster, the twelfth day of May, in
the forty-second year of our reign.

LIBRARY.— KING'S COLLEGE. NOVA SCOTIA.

London, 1st June, 1802.

We, whose names are hereun<-o subscribed, have been desired by
the Governors of King's College, in Nova Scotia, publicly to express
their gratitude for the great assistance received from their friends
and benefactors in this Kingdom, in forming a Library for this infant
Seminary.

By the munificence of His Majesty, and of the British Parliament,
in addition to the liberal support cf the Legislature of the Province;,
a spacious and convenient building was erected in 1 79S, at Windsor,

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in Nova Scotia, where many young men have already completed
their studies. But as the funds of the College were inadequate to
the purchase of a sufficient library, many contributions in books and
inoney were received last year for this purpose, under the patronage
of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishops of
London and Rochester.

His Majesty has been since graciously pleased to grant his royal
charter, dated 12th May 1802. for founding and incorporating the
said College, by the name and style of " The Governors, President,
and Fellows of King's College at Windsor, in Nova Scotia," for the
education of youth in the principles of true religion, and for their
instruction m the different branches of science and literature, which
are taught at the universities in this United Kingdom. It must be
particularly gratifying to every friend of his country, to find that the
munificence which has distinguished His Majesty's reign, is thus
extended to the remotest provinces of his dominions.

The genuine patriot, the sincere Christian, and the lover of clas-
sical and pohte literature and the sciences, will rejoice to see the
blessings of the mother country communicated to the distant regions
of North America ; and from the establishment of this infant college
"^S^u IV^^'°P'^^ ^^^' ^^''^^^ter become, as the charter expresses it'
Ihe Mother of an University,'^ will anticipate the most important
and beneficial effects ; the general diffusion of sound learning the
promotion of every liberal art and science, and above all, the firm
support of the Christian religion, as professed and taught by our
Reformed Episcopal Church.

Experience has abundantly proved, that as nations advance in
wealth and luxury, in commerce and the arts, truths, the most uni-
versally received and the most highly respected, are apt gradually to
lose their estimation : hence the value of Schools, and Colleges, and
other learned foundations ; hence the value of the Institution for
which we presume to solicit the public support. Jn the New World
such an Institution was peculiarly necessary, and is likely to be
attended with inestimable benefits. In the American College, for
Which we are now pleading, the doctrines and discipline ''of the
Church of England, fixed on firm foundations, will hand down, from
age to age. the genuine principles of the Christian reli-ion in their
original purity, as the most valuable treasure which could be secured
to posterity by the provident wisdom of their ancestors.

These important objects, however, will be greatly promoted by the
extension of the patronage already experienced, and by the friendly
aid ot a generous and munificent public.

Whilst then, in the name of the Governors of this Institution, we
return their grateiul acknowledgments to the following Subscribers
and Benefactors, we cannot help earnestly requesting the assistance
of others in promoting its welfare, either by a contribution in books,
or by a pecuniary subscrptici, in order to enable the Governors to

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ScROPB Bernard, M.P.
Joseph Planta.
William Wilberforck, M.P.
John Wilmot.

LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS, &c.
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His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, Patron of

King's College, Nova-Scotia -
Sir John Wentworth, Bart., Governor N
Kight Rev. Charles Inglis, Bishop,

Visitor of King's College
Hon. S. S. Blowers, Chief Justice
Richard I. Uniacke, Esq., Attorney- General
James Stuart, Solicitor-General
Sir Thomas A. Strange, late Chief Justice
Alexander Brymer, Esq., Paymaster
The liOrd Bishop of Durham
Hen. Thornton, Esq. M.P.
Scrope Bernard, Esq., M.P. -
W. Wilberforce, Esq , M.P. -

Hon. George Knox, M.P. for the University of Dublin
John Wilmot, Esq. - - . -

William Lambert, Esq. - , -

Hon. Mr. Eardley . . . -

Rev. J. H. Michell, King's College, Cambridge
Culling Smith, Esq. - . . -

W. Waterhouse, Esq. - . -

Culling Smith, Esq., Junior - - -

Books.

His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Bishop of
London, the Lord Bishop of Durham, the Lord Bishop of Meath,
the Right Rev. the Dean, and Ptev. the Chapter of Westminster, the
University of Oxford, the Society for Propagation of the Gospel,
Trustees for the British Museum, Society for bettering the condition
of the Poor, the Right Honorable Lord Eardley. Scrope Bernard,
Esq., M.P. Mr. Baron Maseres, Mrs. H.More, William Wilberforce.
Esq., M.P., John Wilmot, Esq., Hon. Mr. Eardlev. Culling Smith,

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Esq., Junior, Joseph Planta, Esq., Capt. Sykes, R.N., T. Cadell,
Esq.. Guillerbarde, Esq., Mr. Edv/arda, Sir J. B. Warren, Bart.,
K. B., Rev. Dr. Kiplinj?, Cambridge, Rev. Mr. Gilpin, Rev, Dr.
Glasse, Rev. Mr. Hewlett, Rev. Mr. Boucher, Pev. Mr. Gray,
Thomas Cochran, Esq., Chief of Prince Edward's Island. Capt!
Talbot, John Gifford, Esq., Mr. Buckwoods, J, H. Browne. Esq
M. P.. Rev. Mr. Tooke.

Booksellers — Contributors.

Messrs. Beckett, Bickerstaff, Cadell and Davis, Callow, Carpenter,
Cobbett and Morgan, Debrett, Faulder, Harding, Hookham. Law,
Longman and Rees, Miller, Nicoll, Payne, Rivington, Robson,
Vernor and Hood, White.

To the Right Honorable the Earl Grey, Her Majesty's Secretary
of State for the Colonies. The Memorial of the Governors,
President, and Fellows of King's College, at Windsor, in the
Province of Nova Scotia, humbly sheweth —

That at the termination of the American Revolution, a large body
of the American loyalists removed into the province of Nova S^-otia
V ere they found that little provision had been made to afford to the
rmng generation the benefits of a liberal education.

That to remedy this evil an Act was passed by the provincial
legislature m 1789. for founding, establishing, and maintaining a
College— which reciting that " Whereas the permanent establish-
ment and effectual support of a College at Windsor, would by the
blessing of God, become of the greatest public utilitv to this Pro-
vince, and to His Majesty's neighbouring colonies," enacted bv the
first clause, that the sum of £400 sterling should be granted and
paid yearly, and every year, to the governors of the said college
towards its maintenance and support. '

The Act then named the Governor of the Province, the Lieutenant-
Governor, the Bishop of Nova Scotia, th- Chief Justice, the Secre-
tary of the Province, the Speaker of the House of Assembly the
Attorney-General, and the Solicitor-General, as the Governors of
the said College, and created them a Body Politic and Corporate,
and directed them to appoint a President and Piofessors, with a
stipulation that the President should always be a Clergyman of the
iliStablished Church ot England.

The Governors and other friends of the Church, both in this Pro-
vmce and in England, exerted themselves to the utmost to carry the
benevolent intentions of the Provincial Legislature ii.to effect, in
which they were most liberally aided bv the Government 'J the mo-
her country and a Royal Charter was' granted, as contemplated by
the Provincial Act under which the endor-ment was Lnven

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Tlicse efforts were very successful ; a building was soon erected
at Windsor, affording accommodation for the President, Professors,
and Students. The kind contributions of many zealous Churchmen
in England provided a valuable Library, and the Institution has for
nearly sixty years past, supplied this and the neighbouring Colonies
with many valuable Pastors and other public servi nts, few of whom
would have able to obtain a liberal education elsewhere.

It is with the deepest regret that your Petitioners now see this
valuable Institution threatened with ruin.

While it was quietly pursuing its useful career, without any
complaint having been preferred against it, without calling upon
your Petitioners for any explaination, if any such complaint unknown
to them existed, without inquiry or investigation to the know' dge
of your Petitioners, a Bill was introduced into the Assembly b . a
private member for a second time during the last Sessions, andwhich,
to the astonishment of all friends of the Institution, tb^i passed,
depriving the College of the annual sum of £400, which was per-
manently given to it by the Act of 1 789.

Bij that Act your Petitioners were directed to procure and employ a
President and Professors and to pay them their salaries out of the sum
so permanently granted. In compliance with these directions, a Presi-
dent and a Professor have bei-n long appointed and employed, and while
they were in the faithful discharge of their duties (without a complaint
being urged against themj the means of paying them are withdrawn
The President wos induced, some years ago to leave a situation in the
College of New Brunswick to become President of King's College, at
Windsor, where he had been educated, and of which he has long been
an ornament. The Professor of Mathematics was more recently in-
duced to quit England, and remove to Windsor, where his services
are deservedly valued.

Notwitstanding the exertions of the Alumni and other friends of
the Institution, these Gentlemen must be left without their sti-
pulated salaries, if Her Majesty allows this act to become a Law ;
and your Petitioners feel it their duty to bring these circumstances
under your Lordship's consideration without further comment, in
the humble hope that your Lordship will be of opinion that good
faith ought to be kept with them and with those they were not only
empowered but directed to employ.

And, as in duty bound your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.

In the name and by the order of the Governors, President,
and Fellows of King's College at Windsor, in the Pro-
vince of Nova Scotia.

(College Seal.) John C. Halltdubton,

Secretary, King's College at Windsor.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 13th l!SJ3.

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Extract from the Journals of the Legislative Council of 4th April,

185 1, Puffes 123—4.

A Bi'l, entitled an Act to discontinue the Grant to King's Col-
lege, Windsor was read a third time, and the question was put by
the President,

Whethc'- this Rill sliall pass ?

It v.as resolved in the affirmative.

Dissentient :

1. Because the Act of 29 Geo III., was passed ior founding,
establishing, avd maintaining a College in this Province, and by the
tirst clause thereof, the sum of Four Hundred Pounds Sterling, was
given in perpetuity for the permanrnt estahlisliment and effectual sup-
port of this College, in anticipation of great public utility therefrom
to this and the neighbouring Colonies, which has been realized be-
yond the expectations of its wise and bene\olent founders.

2. Because from the very long period during which the said Act
has been in force (now G2 years) the sanction of time has also
been given to this permanent endowment, and the approbation of
successive Provincial Parliaments has ratified the wisdom of our
ancestors in making it.

3. Because such an Institution, from its very nature, requires a
permanent endowment, and to deprive it of this, is not merely to
cripple its resources and to diminish its usefulness, but to destroy
that which the other unrepealed clauses of the Act still uphold.

4. Because, therefore in rcpealin;;' this first clause, whilst the
Legislature still continues the others in foicc, they recognize the ad-
vantage of this Institution, which they at the same time tend to
destroy, and are thus inconsistent with themselves.

5. Because confiding in the permanent and effectual support on
which this College was established, many pious and beneficent indi-
viduals have, from time to time, given to it pecuniary and other
gifts, and now to withdraw this permanent support, and to risk its
very existence, would be unfair and unjust to there contributors,

6. Because it woald be unfair and unjust to the numerous Gradu-
ates of this College to destroy that upon which their honorary dis-
tinctions and honors depend, which Trust fall with it.

7. Because the fourth Clause of the 29 Geo. III., directed the
Governors of the College to procure and employ the officers requisite
to carrv the intention of the JiCgislature, as expressed in that Act.
into execution, and therefore in so doing, the Governors acted as
the agents of the Province

8. By this Act repealing the first Clause of the 29 Geo. III., de-
priving the Institution of the permanent grant made for its support
the Governors are deprived of the power of paying the officers they were
directed to employ, when it is not even aileged that the Governors have

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exceeded their powers, or that the officers have failed to fulfil the duties
they engaged to perform.

9. liecauso, that if this wore a transaction between private persons,
the ordinary trihtinals of the Country would compel the principal to

fulfil the contract which his agent hitd made by hist authority.

10. Because it is unworthy of the Province of Nova Scotia to de-
prive its a Jurats of the means of fulfilling the contracts entered into
l)y them on behalf of fhe Province, because there is no tribunal that
cui: compel the Province to fulfil them.

11. Because the Institution, has over sin^e its establishment,
widely diffused abroad, leariimg, science, tuste, and refinement, and
extensively promoted the cause of good morals and religion, and
good government, of which these are the basis, and thus has re-
turned, in ample measure, all the pecuniary aid which it has derived
from the Provincial grants, and that to check such public benefits,
by a repeal of its grant, is unworthy of an enlightened age, and the
Legislature of a free and liberal people.

12. Because this College ofFers the strongest proofs of its useful-
ness and excellence in the many able and learned men whom it has
educated, and of whom some are the ornament and honor of our
Legislature, and others fill the highest offices in this and neighbour-
ing countries, and having thus largely contributed to raise the cha-
racter of the Province here and its reputation abroad, l* s ill-deserved
the ungrateful requital of this present measure.

13. Because no complaint has ever been alleged agaiutit the College,
nor a single petition presented for ihe repeal of the grant, which is
consequently a pure gratuitous wrong to the Institution.

14. Because the present measure is a great discouragement to
Literature in general, shewing at how low an estimate it is held,
vhen for so small a saving this long established College, the oldest
in British North America, is thus endangered by an Act, which will
1 c held in future times a blot and blemish on the Legislature by
which it is passed.

15. Because the Act to repeal the permanent endowment is, under
all these circumstances, in our opinion, a palpable and direct breach
of public faith.

16. Because at the time when a great public work is in con-
templation, for the completion of which the credit of the Province
may be staked, it is especially unwise to show to the world how
easily an Act may be repealed by which a permanent grant has been
pledged for a most useful purpose, and on how insecure a foundation
rests the dependance upon the public faith of the Province.

M. B. Almon,
W. A. Black,
H. G. Pined,
John E. Fairbanks,
A. Keith.

(Copy.)

To the Right Honorable Sir John Pakinglon, Bart., her Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretary of iate for the Coloniea. the
Memorial of the Aaiociateu ilunni cf ...iVs College,
Windsor, in the Province of No''a Scotia, respectfully
sheweth : —

That in the year One thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, an
Act of the Provincial Legislature was passed, p^runting a sum of Four
liundred pounds sterling per annum, to be p.iid " yearly and every
year," in order to the " permanent establishment und effectual sup-
port of a College at Windsor," as appenrs by the preamble of the
Act.

That by the fouith clause of the Act tha Governors of the College
are empowered and directed to appoint a President and Professors,
and to assign them respectively, out of the sum granted, such Sa-
laries and Allowances as they shall think fit.

That when the office of President became vacant, seifcral years ago,
the Governors in discharge of that duty, apjjointed to the office the able
und learned Gentleman who now holds it. He then held a Professor-
shir m the College in New Brunswick, which he resigned, upon the firm
conviction, entertained equally by himself and the Governors, that he
ws to hold his office, and receive its emoluments, so long as he dis-
charged its duties faithfully .

That the Professor of Mathematics was within these few years
induced to quit a situation in England and come to this country
under a similar understanding.

That in the year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, an
Act was passed in the Provincial Legislature, to repeal that part of
the Act of the ye'^r \T^\) which grants the sum of Four hundred
pounds sterling per annum, leaving still in force ihe other portions
of the Act which confer the control of the College on u Beard of
Governors, composed almost entirely of public and legal Function-
aries, who may be, 'itli the single exception of the Bishop of the
Diocese, Dissenters from the Church cf Fnglaad, and some of whom,
at ♦his moment, ■ i" iw.t ci y Dissenters, but actuated by feelings of
avowed hostility to the College.

That the Royal assent having been hitherto withheld from that
Act, (of 1851), a Memorial has passed the House of Assembly of
this Province, praying that such assent may be given, but that
should tho Act of 1789 be repealed, in accordance with that Memo-
rial, it will be impossible for the Governors of the College to retain
the services of the above-named gentlemen, and equally impossible
o dismiss them without a flagrant breach of faith.

Thav your Memorialists humbly beg to deny, in the most empha-
tic manner, that the College at Windsor is of an exclusive character,

" rcftlize
as stated

the c'-jCct*^ for which it was ori-
thc Memorial of the House cf

years ago,
-.e the able
'^ro/essor-
n tlie firm
'•s, that he
IS he dis-

few years
3 country

;y-one, an
at part of
• hundred
r portions
Beard of
Function-
lop of the
of whom,
"eeUngs of

from that
isembly of
but that
at Memo-
2 to retain
mpossible

st empha-
character,

or that it has fuiled to
ginuUy endowed,"
Assembly.

That in proof of the benefits which have resulted from the Cota-
blishnient of the College, they can point with pride to many of tht
most eminent men in the, British North \merican Provinces, who
have received their education within its walls, but in order to pla''e
their assertions beyond dispute, they beg leave to adduce the tes-
timony of a witness above impeachment, and to refer to the follow-
ing extracts from a public address delivered by the late Lieutenant-
Governor of this Province, Sir John Harvey, at the Encoenia of the
College, in the year 1846.

*' In the cause of education generally, and mo 'e espt riallg a$ respects
its widely extended diffusion, I have at all times fell a deep degree of
interest, and with reference to this particular establishment, I may be
permitted to say, that the respect which I have always mtertained
towards it, during a connectioh with the British North Anu • ifi-i Colo-
nies, extending over a period of thirty-four years, has been founded not
tvon any intimate individual acquaintance on my part with the institU'
tton itself, but upon the fat* that its benefits are so co-extensive with
all those Colonies, in every — the most remoe parts of which, (in which
I have resided, or which I have visitedj the Alum, ' of Windsor College
are to be found prominent among their most enlightened inhabitants."

They also beg leave to refer to the following extract from the
same address, in order t(> refute the cha'ge of exclusiveness. After
acknowledging the merits and claims of the Institution upon the
public suppor*, his Excellency proceeded to say, '• but those claims
are greatly strengthened in my estimation, when it is cjnaidered
that by the absence of all stringent regulations, tests, or conditions
of admission, any character of ' exclusiveness' which it may have been
attempted to affix upon it is best refuted.'

That, in corroboration of this testimony, they refer to the fact,
that dissenters have availed themselves, and do still avail themselves
of the advantages offered by the Institution, and that they have, as
is well and publicly known in this Province, obtained the highest
honours in the gift of the College.

Your Memorialists would further state in proof of the estimation
in which this College is held by the Public, that when the grant
formerly made by the Society for the propagation of the Jospel in
foreign parts to the Institution was withdrawn, and an appeal was
made to supply the deficiency, your Memoriahslj* Association was
at once formed, who have raised a sum of Two thousand pounus as
the nucleus of a permanent fund in aid of the Colif ge, in addition
to an annual subscription of upwards of One hundred and twenty
pounds for the s-xme object.

That with respecri to the charge contained in the iliird clause of
the address of the House of Assembly, your r lemorialists beg to

state, that it is calculated to create an impression directly opposed to
fact ; that the ex-officio Governors of the College form the large
majority of the Board, and that the only Governors holding seats at
the Board, in addition to the ex-officio members, are Mr. Justice
Bliss, the senior Puisne Judge of her Majesty's Supreme Court of
this Province, and a Master of Arts of the College, Lewis M. Wil-
kins. Esquire, one of her Majesty's Counsel learned in the Law,
formerly a member of her Majesty's Executive Council, and also a
Master of Arts, and the Reverend George M'Cawley, Doctor of
Divinity, the President of the College ; while the ex-officio Governors
number eight, of whom but one, the Bishop of the Diocese, is ne-
cessarily a member of the Church of England.

Your Memorialists therefore pray that you will De"~[/icased to
advise her Majesty not to allow the passage of the Act for repealing
the grant, or in any case to require such a provision for the present
incumbents as shall enable the Governors to keep their faith un-
broken. And your Memorialists, as in duty, &c.

(Signed)
Halifax, May 13, 1852.

H. H. Cogswell, D.C.L., Presvlent.
P. Carteret Hill, A.B„ Secretary >

Governors' Memorial to Three Branches of the Legislature against the
Repeal of the Endowment Act,
To the Honorable the House of Assembly of the Province of
Nova Scotia. The Memorial of the Governors of King's
College, Nova Scotia, resoectfuUy sheweth —

That a Bill has been introduced into your Honorable House to
repeal the first Clause of the Act 29 Geo. HL c. 14, entitled " An
Act for founding, establishing, and maintaining a College in this
Province," and by which Clause the sum of £400 sterling per
annum was granted and secured towaids the permanent establishment
and effectual support of the College at Windsor.

That the objects contemplated by this Bill were, as expressed in
the preamble, that this College might, by the blessing of God,
become of the greatest public utility to this province and to Her
Majesty's neighbouring colonies.

That the pious anticipation of the Legisk.are in making this
endowment has, under the favour of Almighty God, alre-'dy received,
and is continually receiving, its fulfilment, in the education within
this college of numbers of this and the neighbouring^ colonies in the
moral and religious instruction there combined with the higher
branches of learning and science ; and in the spread of divine truth,
the general increase of knowledge, literature, and the love of letters ;
the improvement of taste and refinement of mind which adoru and
elevate the character of a people.

pposed to
the large
T seats at
r. Justice
Court of
M. Wil-
the Law,
.nd also a
Doctor of
irovernors
se, is ne-

Icased to

repealing

le present

faith un-

'^resi'lent.
ecretarv.

gainst the

ovince of
)f King's

House to
led " An
e in this
rling per
iblishment

)ressed in

of God,

d to Her

king this
received,
on within
lies in the
le higher
ine truth,
)f letters ;
idora and

That these are the general advantages flowing directly froni this
8cat of learning, which, as a natural consequence, excite others to a
generous emulation, and lead to the same happy results.

That since its first establishment;, this College has supplied to all
the learned professions, and to various employments in life, here and
elsewhere, many eminent and distinguished men, and able and useful
members of society ; and it ia not a little remarkable that at this
very time her sons are to be seen on the Bench in Canada, in Gibraltar,
in New Brunswick, and Prince Edward's Island, as well as in Nova
Scotia.* That these many public benefits have well repaid the wise
liberality of your predecessors, and it is confidently believed cannot
fail to obtain from every Legislature, approbation, encouragement,
and support.

That the establishment of a College, unlike many objects of Legis-
lative aid, is essentially of a permanent nature. Formed not to suit
the purpose of the day, nor the variable feelings, passions, or pre-
judices of men — its very character — its institutions — its objects — its
distinctions (the fair reward of learning) and its usefulness suppose
and require a permanency of existence. Chartered for all times and
above all changes, it holds the even tenor of its way, fulfilling
its duties, and diff'using the blessings of education and the light of
science and truth abroad through the land.

That this continuing existence was beyond all doubt the intention
of the Legislature who thus expressly endowed the College in perpe-
tuity.

That encouraged by that permanent endowment, and relying on the
faith of the Legislature thus pledged, other munificent benefactors
have contributed their support to the Coll3ge in money, books, and
instruments, and enabled it to attain to its present usefulness, which
mrst necessarily be greatly impaired, if the Institution be not itself
destroyed, should the proposed measure now before youi Honorable
House pass into a law.

Tha*- this Act for the support of learning has been in force for
more than sixty years — and framed as it was for perpetuity and sanc-
tioned as it has been by time — with the public faith and public cha-
racter for its guarantee, for an object so honorable and purpose so
usci'ul, which have been thus far fulfilled — is now at this day threat-
ened with repeal.

Your Memorialists respectfully pray that you will not assent to a
measure so injurious to the cause of learning and to the rights of
this College — that this Endowment may be preserved in all its
integrity — that this Institution, looking back to the past with pride,
and with hope to the future, may continue its useful course < f educa-
tion, and, encouraged by success already secured, may train up the
youth of distant times in the path of religion, literature and science.

♦ The Hon. Sir James Stewart, Chief Justice of Canada; Sir James Cocliraa,
Judge at Gibraltar ; Chief Justice Jarvis, P. E. I. ; Judge Parker ; and Hon.
Neville Parke, Master Rolls ; Judge Bliss, and Judf^o Haliburton.

, y.Minmnwjp. i i i iip«Mip

Rpport of the Committee relative lO a Public School. Windsor, N.S.,

22nd Nov , 1787.

The Committee appointed by the House for the purpose of consi-
dering the Message of His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor,
recommending from His Majesty the establishing and maintaining of
Schools within this Province, report,

That they conceive it indispensably necessary that a public School
be established as soon as possible in some commodious central situ-
ation in this Province, for the purpose of instructing the rising /gene-
ration in the principles of sound Literature and the Christian Religion.
And as they conceive it necessary that the master or head of such
School should be thoroughly qualified and accomplished for that
important trust, they recommend

That an exemplary Clergyman of the Established Church, well
skilled in classical learning, divinity, moral philosiphy, and the belles
leltres, be provided and placed at the head of the said School. And
as an encouragement for such an one, so quaUfied, to accept of the
employment, that a sum not less than £200 sterling per annum be
allowed to him.

They also resoramend that a Professor of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy be likewise provided frr the said School with an allow-
ance of £100 sterling per annum. And that the Right Rev. thk
Bishop of Nova Scotia bfc requested to endeavour to procure two
gentlemen of the above qualifications for those purposes.

The Committee conceive that the neighbourhood of Windsor will
be the pioperest place for this School, and recommend that a commo-
dious house should be hired there for that purpose, till, upon experi-
ence of the propriety of the situation, the Province shall find it expe-
dient to erect a more suitable building, or to enlarge their pLje of
educp ion.

The Committee, in deliberating upon this subject, having duly
considered and lamented the wretched state of literature in this
Province", and having been unavoidably left to contrast it with the
state of literature in the neighbouring Republics, beg leave earnestly
to recommind to the consideration '^f the House, whether it would
not be proper, as soon as it can be found practicable, to erect a
■allege or University in this Province, to prevent, as early as may be,
tiie youth of this country (now panting after knowledge) from runh-
ing into the various seminaries already established in the United
States of America, by whicn m^is their attachment to their native
country may be in danger of being weakened, and principles imbibed
unfriendly to the British Constitution.

These the Committee apprehend are consequences of a very serious
nature, and when, added to them, they consider the natural advan-
tages of this Province, which, in point of situation, climate, salubrity

or, N.S..

of consi-
irovernor,
aining of

ic School
tral situ-
ng /?ene-
Religion.
d of such
for that

rch, well
the belles
ol. And
!pt of the
innum be

of air, and fctriiUy of soil, render it inferior to no country, and
superior to most. They cannot but be jealous of the honour of it,
and wish that in this also we might have something to boast ; and
that religion, learning, and virtue may be so publicly encouraged, as
to render us worthy of those other blessings which Providence has
bestowed upon us,

The Committee therefore further recommend to the House, that
the different members be requested to consult their constituents on
the foregoing head, as well as on the resources that may be obtained
from the several Counties within the Province, for the purposes of
effectually establishing and endowing such an University, and to
come prepared at the next Session to give the House the fullest
information on that snljject.

Isaac Wilkins,
Thos. Barclay,
Wm. Chr. Jesskn,
Thomas Millidge,
Chas, Hill,
RicHD. Jno. Uniacke.

d Natural
an allow-
Rev. the
ocure two

ndsor will
a commo-
)n experi-
d it expe-
r pLje of

ving duly
re in this
; with the
! earnestly
• it would
to erect a
IS may be,
rom runh-
tie United
leir native
3S imbibed

2ry serious
ral advan-
, salubrity

Extract from an Appeal made a few years ago in behalf of King's.

College, N.S.

It is the eamest hope of its friend? that th'.j appeal, upon the
success of which the permanency of the Institution depends, may not
be in vain. They cherish this hope on account of its past useful-
ness ; still more so. with a view to its increased efficiency in future ;
and especially, and above all, ita utility to the Established Church in
that Colony.' To extend the benefits of true religion, under the
auspices of' that Church, was, as already stated, a primary object of
its establishment ; and hitherto it has answered that end. It has
been increasingly, of late years, a Missionary College. At the pre-
sent moment three-fourths of the Missionaries in that diocese are
graduates of it ; and should it fall, there is no other source from
whence men, duly qualified for that office, can be obtained.

There are some in the Colony who wish to see it severed from its
prp?ent connection with our Church ; and. in short, divested alto-
gether of its religious character. lis ])resent difficulties have been
urged as a plea for demanding the surrender of its Charter and the
remodelling of its entire system, to render it nidre suitable to popular
taste. But this its friends will never consent to, conscious as they
Miust be, that its original design and chief usefulness would be sub-
verted by such a change. Their fixed determination is, that if it
stand, it shall be in its original character ; and aid is, consequently,

lere literary
< sustain the
ig so, by its
I will more