a well regulated Establishment. 259 



I should imagine it might be further advan- 

 tageous to teach the boys, as is the practice 

 at the military academy, to make their own 

 clothes, which would employ those hours in 

 which the weather may preclude work in the 

 garden. 



The establishment is so well conducted, and 

 so calculated to be eminently useful, that it is 

 not possible to inspect it without feelings of 

 the highest admiration of the philanthropy that 

 dictated the bequest ; yet it is not possible but 

 to lament the want of liberality which restrict- 

 ed its benefits to one religious persuasion that 

 of the protestants by which regulation six out 

 of seven of Mr. Wilson's countrymen are ex- 

 cluded the benefit of his munificence. 



That every individual possessing property 

 has an undoubted right to dispose of it agree- 

 ably to his will and inclination, conformably to 

 the laws cannot be questioned ; nor do I mean 

 to pass the least uncandid or disrespectful re- 

 flection on the memory of the benevolent foun- 

 der; but to express my strong disapprobation 

 of the narrow, merciless bigotry, which not 

 only fostered and promoted the most uncha- 

 ritable prejudices of Christians against each 



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