158 BERMUDA. 



all but useless, may be made the foundation and 

 instrument of a great and lasting change in the 

 entire West Indies. That it was originally intended 

 as a university for youths, and not a mere school 

 for boys, is evident from the terms of the founder's 

 will ; and it is in this light alone, and with a view 

 of commencing and ultimately perfecting its original 

 design, that it deserves the most serious attention 

 of the trustees of the insular legislature, and even 

 of the Government at home. It is quite ridiculous 

 that the object of such a magnificent charity, with 

 such large actual funds, should be left wholly to the 

 support of the people of colour. 



A great desideratum in Bermuda is a place of 

 study and retirement for young men. As it is, those 

 who cannot afford the heavy expense of gonig to 

 Oxford or Cambridge, are obliged to break off the 

 yet unfinished work of their education, to set up 

 at seventeen or eighteen for men, and undertake 

 duties for which they are utterly unqualified. They 

 come away from school half educated in heart and 

 intellect, and are then for the most part placed in 

 situations where every temptation to licentiousness 

 besets their path, and many dangerous privileges 

 are of necessity committed to their discretionary 

 exercise. 



