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Then the King sat down in King Edward's chair; the Archbishop, assisted by other Bishops, came from the altar; the Dean of Westminster brought the Crown, and the Archbishop taking it of him, reverently put it upon the King's head. At this sight the people, with loud and repeated shouts, cried "God save the King," and the trumpets sounded, and, on a signal given, the great guns at the Tower and in the Park were fired. On the acclamations ceasing, the Archbishop rose and said: "Be strong and of good courage: observe the commandments of God, and walk in his holy ways: fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold on eternal life; that in this world you may be crowned with success and honour, and when you have finished your course, you may receive a crown of righteousness, which God the righteous Judge shall give you in that day. Amen."

The Bible was next presented by the Archbishop and Bishops, with the following address :

"Our gracious King; we present unto your Majesty this Book, the most valuable thing that this world affordeth. Here is wisdom; this is the royal law; these are the lively oracles of God. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this Book; that keep, and do, the things contained in it. For these are the words of eternal life; able to make you wise and happy in this world, nay, wise unto salvation, and so happy for evermore, through faith which is in Christ Jesus; to whom be glory for ever.". Amen.

Then the King delivered bac! the Bible to the Archbishop, who gave it to the Dean of Westminster, to be reverently placed again upon the holy altar.

The King having been anointed and crowned, and having received all the ensigns of royalty, the Archbishop solemnly blessed him, and all the Bishops standing about him answered each benediction, with the rest of the Peers, with a loud and hearty Amen.

"The Lord bless and keep you: the Lord make the light of his countenance to shine for ever upon you, and be gracious unto you: the Lord protect you in all your ways, preserve yon from

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every evil thing, and prosper you in every thing good." Amen.

"The Lord give you a faithful Senate, wise and upright Counsellors and Magistrates, a loyal Nobility, and a dutiful Gentry; a pious, and learned, and useful Clergy; an honest, industrious, and obedient Commonalty."

Amen.

"In your days may mercy and truth meet together, and righteousness and peace kiss each other; may wisdom and knowledge be the stability of your times, and the fear of the Lord your treasure." Amen.

"The Lord make your days many, and your reign prosperous; your fleets and armies victorious; and may you be reverenced and beloved by all your subjects, and ever increase in favour with God and man." Amen.

"The glorious Majesty of the Lord our God be upon you; may he bless you with all temporal and spiritual happiness in this world, and crown you with glory and immortality in the world to come." Amen.

"The Lord give you a religious and victorious posterity to rule these kingdoms in all ages." Amen.

The Archbishop then turned to the people, and said—

"And the same Lord God Almighty grant, that the Clergy and Nobles assembled here for this great and solemn service, and together with them all the people of the land, fearing God and honouring the King, may, by the merciful superintendency of the divine Providence, and the vigilant care of our gracious Sovereign, continually enjoy peace, plenty, and prosperity, through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with the eternal Father, and God the Holy Ghost, be glory in the Church, world without end." Amen.

Te Deum was then sung. The King was placed in his Throne; and the Archbishops, Bishops, and Nobles, did homage and swore fealty to him. The whole was closed by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, with the addition of one or two collects.

After the Coronation was thus completed, the procession returned to the Hall, where a magnificent banquet was served up with all the ancient and im pressive ceremonies.

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We close, then, the whole, with impressing on the minds of our readers the importance of adopting those pray

After this abstract of the service we feel we have but little room for any remarks of our own, and yet we cannot help observing how strictly it is adapters, intercessions, and givings of thanks,

ed to the occasion. Some, indeed, would maintain that the solemn pledges of kings should be given in an assembly of the people; and they half intimate that the sovereign's oaths should be consecrated at an altar to reason. But to us it appears that no place can be so appropriate as the house of God; no altar worthy of comparison with the table of Christ; no assembly so vener able as that of the spiritual and temporal peers, the hereditary possessors of high rank and large domains, and those who have been raised by various talents and attainments to the possession of power and influence. Some, indeed, condemn the ceremonies and the service as trifling, obsolete, and superstitious. To us it appears most Scriptural and holy; most calculated to impress on the minds of the monarch and of his subjects what he and they ought to be; what that line of conduct

offered up on this important day as their own: we call upon them to pray for kings and for all in authority, and especially for our present Sovereign, that he and his people may so be mindful of the vows of God which are upon them, and so guided and influenced by the Holy Spirit, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations; and we are deeply convinced, that, if such petitions are fervently offered up to the throne of the divine Majesty, a blessing shall indeed descend from on high, and this land, favoured as it has already been with numerous benefits and blessings, shall be constrained afresh to pour forth its triumphant praises to the Author of every good and every perfect gift.

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he should adopt in the exercise of his Madras School in the Province of New! power; and what that submission which they should render ; and all that we can desire is, that the language of the service may be seriously weighed and deeply impressed on every heart.

The spectators of the procession, we understand, were astonished and almost overwhelmed at its SPLENDOUR; but the spectators of the coronation were deeply impressed with its SOLEMNITY. It was to them no longer a splendid pageant, but a religious ceremony. The seriousness of behaviour; the deep reverence manifested by the Sovereign and all his attendants; the feeling which his Majesty evinced-feeling producing even tears; the language which was used, combined with all the religious associations connected with the place, the repository of the honoured dead, as well as the assembly of the great and powerful shortly to be numbered with them: all these combined produced a lively interest and a deep effect; and who shall say that this shall be merely transient? who shall not gratefully acknowledge God's good ness, should it be instrumental in exciting any to a more holy and virtuous life ?

[We have been favoured by a subscriber in St. John, N. B. with the following Report, which it gives us much pleasure to insert in the Journal. We are confident also that the following extract from the letter accompanying the report will be in teresting to our readers.]

"From the report you will learn the progress which education has made in this Proit is likly to make, by the further extenvince, and the still greater progress which sion of the Madras system throughout the colony; a system which is admirably calculated to diffuse the blessings of educa tion, and, at the same time, to instil into ledge of the principles of our holy relithe minds of the children a correct knowgion. A meeting of the scholars belonging to the Madras and other schools in this city, took place in Trinity Church on the 1st of August last. It was ascertained that there were upwards of 750 children' present, including those of colour. The cleanliness of their appearance, and the good order observed by them during divine service were conspicuous, and had a most interesting and imposing effect. But little better than two years have elapsed since the introduction of the system

into the Province; and from the progress it has already made, the most pleasing results may be confidently expected."

The Second Annual Report of the State of the Madras School, incorporated by the name of the "Governor and Trustees of the Madras Schoot in New Brunswick," made agreeably to the direction of the Charter at the Second Annual Meeting in July, 1821, by the Committee appointed to prepare the same.

In making the second Annual Report of the state of the Madras School in New. Brunswick, the committee will endeavour to give as concise and correct a statement as possible of the proceedings of the Institution, and the general adoption and progress of the system throughout the Province.

Of the introduction of the Madras Sys. tem into this Province-of the establishment, on a large scale, of a school in St. John, under the patronage of His Excellency Major-General Smyth, LieutenantGovernor and Commander in Chief over the said Province of New-Brunswick, by the contributions of Trinity Church, of the corporation and inhabitants of the city and of the incorporation and actual state of the Institution at that period;—a detailed and circumstantial account was given in the Report of last year.

Without entering further into particulars, the Committee proceed now to ad. vert to the present state of the Institu tion, the general adoption of the Madras System of Education, and the progress it has made during the present year in the Province.

The state of the Madras School, in New Brunswick, at the last Annual Meeting, in July, 1820, was as follows-11 schools, and 992 scholars.

The Committee have the gratification now to state, that during the present year six new schools have been established, the masters having been duly qualified and instructed in the Central School for their respective charges; and from the different statements transmitted to the Secretary of the Madras Board, it appears that 1798 scholars have been received into the schools, making an increase in one year of 896 scholars; and the Committee have the pleasure further to state, that from information received, there are several other schools in a forward state of organization, and will speedily be established.

The Central School continues under the charge of Mr. Bragg, who devotes his time and abilities to the instruction of the children put under his care; and though the school has experienced great fluctua, tion, and there appears in the present year, owing to local circumstances, some trifling diminution in the number of scholars, yet it remains, in all material points, the same, and promises to be of lasting and essential benefit to the community at large. Thirteen school-masters and seve

ral school-mistresses have been instructed in the National System in the Central School without expense, and are now em ployed in various parts of the Province.

The Committee appointed last year to make the requisite inquiries and report a proper place for the erection of a suitable building for the accommodation of the fe male scholars, together with a plan and estimate of the expense of a building for that purpose, did, in the execution of that trust, purchase a lot of land adjoining that on which the school for male children stands. On this ground a handsome and commodious wooden building has been erected, consisting of one room of the fol❤ lowing dimensions, viz. 60 feet by 30. The building was finished, as anticipated, early in the autumn, and Mrs. Bragg opened the school in September, who conducts it with great attention and assiduity, pre cisely on the principles of the school for male children.

The Committee appointed also last year at the Annual Meeting, to confer with his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, at his request, upon the measures proper to be adopted for affording instruction to children of people of colour, who hitherto have neither had the opportunity nor means of acquiring an useful and religious education, having attended to that duty, it now becomes the pleasing task of your Committee to state, that a school for the above purpose was opened on the 2d of August last, under the management of Mr. William Till, who was instructed in the Central School to undertake the charge. This school owes its existence, and, indeed, up to this period, its entire support, to the individual munificence of his Excellency Major-General Smyth, the Lieutenant Governor.

The success which has attended the establishment of this school has fully jus tified the attempt, and far exceeded the most sanguine expectations of its warmest advocates: and as it will now receive the immediate superintendance and support of the Madras Board, it promises to be a lasting benefit to a large and hitherto too much neglected portion of the community. The industry and persevering zeal of Mr. Till, the master, are unremitted, and such as entitle him to the best thanks of all who wish well to the moral and intel lectual improvement of the human species. His uniform and impartial kindness to the children, and the conscientious discharge of his duty, have had the effect of endearing the master to the scholar, and producing, in propertion to the number of admissions, an extraordinary and unexam. pled daily attendance.

Into the English school attached to the college of New-Brunswick, at Frederickton, the system has been introduced by the direction of the Governor and Trustees

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The master was instructed in the Central School at St. John, and his school is place ed under the immediate superintendance of the Rev. Mr. Somerville, president of the college.

In regard to the state of the different schools in the country, the Committee beg leave to notice, in a particular manner, the regularity of the returns made to the Central Board by the different Clergymen throughout the Province, under whose immediate superintendance the schools have been established. From these returns it appears that the success of the undertakings has greatly exceeded expectation, and it is peculiarly gratifying to learn, that where there has been any prejudice shown against the system, it is now fast dying away, as it is very justly remarked, in consequence of the excellence of the system itself when a fair trial has been made of it.

The Trustees of the principal seminaries of learning in the Province, viz. the college at Frederickton, the grammar school at St. John, and the grammar school at St. Andrews, have shown their sense of the high importance and usefulness of the system, by making resolutions severally to this effect; that any boy who shall have been a teacher one year in a Madras school, and who shall in other respects have ac quitted himself to the satisfaction of the Trustees, shall be entitled to a classical education in the above establishments, free of expense.

From returns made to the secretary of the Central Board, the state of the Madras School, in New-Brunswick, is as follows: [Here follows a table, from which it appears that there are in New-Brunswick, 14 Madras schools, in which 1798 scholars have been admited, and that there are 548 boys, and 339 girls in present daily attendance; and also in the school for children of colour in St. John, 112 have been admitted, and from 36 to 39 of each sex are in daily attendance ]

At the second Annual Meeting, in July, the Treasurer of the corporation exhibited on oath, agreeably to the requisition of the charter, an account of the sums received and paid by him for the use of the corporation, up to the 1st July, 1821, as follows:

[From the account published in the report, it appears that the receipts for the past year were 1090. 68. 6 1-2d. and the expenses 1090/ 188. 1 1-2d.]

The Treasurer presented a statement of the debts of the Institution, amounting to the sum of nine hundred pounds.

The following supplement exhibits a general view of the present state of the funds of the Institution, with the means of liquidating the same:

Here follows a Supplement to the Treasurer's Account.]

By which it appears there will be a ha

lance standing against the Institution of 2401. 2s 6d

His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased, by and with the advice of his Majesty's council, to make, at different times, the following grants to the Madras Corporation :

County of York-Lots Nos. 9 and 11, Rushaguanis.

King's County-1585 acres in Sussex, 400 do. do. in Hampton, reserved lot be tween John Campbell and John Harring

ton.

County of Westmoreland-500 acres, Shediac.

Charlotte County-Public landing and two town blocks in St. Andrews. County of Sunbury-Lot No. 15, in Sheffield.

The Governor and Trustees, in consequence of the vast expense already incur red, and anxious to extend the benefits of the Institution throughout the Province, were induced to petition the Legislature for pecuniary aid at the last session of the General Assembly, when they were pleased to grant to the corporation the sum of seven hundred and fifty pounds, for the use of the Madras Schools throughout the Province.

Upon a representation made to his Majesty's ministers by his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, in behalf of the Institution, the lords of his Majesty's treasury were pleased to make a donation of five hundred pounds sterling to the corporation, through the Lieutenant-Governor.

The Missionary at St. John having notified to the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and to the Socie ty for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the formation of a large Madras School in this city, and the intention of its patrons to carry the system throughout the Province, these Societies were pleased to express their cordial approbation of the exertions that were made here in this respect, and presented the Madras Board with a gratuitous supply of books for the use of the schools. In a letter to the Rev. Robert Willis, Missionary at St. John, the Secretary of the former Society writes as follows:

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the general use of the schools in New Brunswick.

value and usefulness of the system, when thoroughly known and carried into effect. The Committee cannot conclude this

Extract from another Letter, dated April Report without congratulating the patrons

Rev. Sir,

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and supporters of the Institution on the success which has attended their exertions in endeavouring to diffuse the national sys tem of education throughout the Province. They are firmly persuaded that when it is better known, it will be more generally encouraged and adopted. When it is understood that, by means of this system, as one of its fundamental principles, the pre cepts of sound religion are necessarily taught and inculcated-that the children are early made acquainted with their duty to God and man, and the doctrines and chief truths of Christianity-they can not but entertain a confident hope that all the friends of order and morality will cor

I am desired by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, to express to you the satisfaction they have derived from your communications. All the circumstances connected with the National Schools in the city of St. John and throughout the Province, are calculated to give them unmixed pleasure; and they would be happy to avail themselves of any opportunity to present their unfeigned thanks to his Excellency the LieutenantGovernor for his unvaried support of the establishment, and the measures he has been pleased to adopt for the extension of the National System throughout the Pro-dially unite in its support. They therevince. A very considerable supply of books for the use of the schools in connexion with the Central School at St. John, was sent to you during the last year. You will have the goodness to present them to the Trustees in the name of the Society. I am, Rev. Sir,

(Signed)

Your obedient Servant,
ANTHONY HAMILTON,
42 Castle-st. Leicester Square,
London.

To Rev. Robert Willis.

The following is an extract from a Letter to the Assistant Secretary of the lat ter Society to the same gentleman:

Rev. Sir,

I have the pleasure to acquaint you, that in consequence of your suggestion, and on the recommendation of the Committee for Correspondence, the General Board of the Society have been pleased to make a gra tuitous grant of all the school books mentioned in your letter, for the use of the corporation of the Madras Institution in New-Brunswick. The books will be forwarded to you, as Secretary of the St. John District Committee, and it is the particular wish of the Board that the District Committee should present them to the corporation, in the name of the Society, and as a small token of the cordial approbation with which the Society views the benevolent exertions of that excellent Institution.

I am, &c. &c.

(Signed) WILLAM PARKER. To Rev. Robert Willis, Secretary, &c. &c.

It affords the Committee great pleasure to be able to state, that at the late public semi-annual examination, which was attended by his Excellency the LieutenantGovernor, the Trustees, and a large assemblage of visitors, the children exhibited striking proofs of proficiency, and of the

fore strongly recommend perseverance and active co-operation in forwarding this great work of endeavouring to ameliorate the human condition in this rising Province; as by diffusing the Madras system of education, we necessarily diffuse a knowledge of those duties which it is of the first importance to man to know, knowledge that the Christian religion is the fundamental principle of social order and human happiness, and the foundation of our hopes of a better world hereafter. And while we teach our children to "fear God and honour the king," and to be content in that situation of life in which it has pleased God to place them, we are assuredly teaching them that which will most effectually promote both their present and future happiness.

This Report is respectfully submitted to the Governor and Trustees by their Committee.

Since the foregoing report was drawn up, the second Annual Meeting of the children of the Central and other schools in this city took place in Trinity Church, on Wednesday, the 1st August, 1821. The galleries of the church, which were reserved for the accommodation of the chil

dren, were crowded, and exhibited a most pleasing sight. An accurate account hav ing been taken, it was found that more than 750 children were present, who belonged to the different schools in this city. The congregation was numerous and most respectable. An appropriate sermon was preached on the occasion by the Rev. Je rome Alley, Rector of St. Andrews, and a collection made in aid of the funds of the Institution.

[Together with the above report we received from our attentive correspondent, a copy of the Rev. Mr. Alley's Sermon; a few extracts from which we proceed to lay before our readers

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