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DISCOURSE 



Dclivered at a Meeting of the Society of 

 Arts and Sciences in Batavia, on the 

 Tzuentyfourth day of April 1813, being 

 the Anniversary of the Institution, 



BY THE HONüRABLE 



THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLES, 



PRESIDENT. 

 GExVTLEMEy, 



jf^LTHouGH I have riatiirallj witnbeld my 

 signature from the address to my Lord Mïnto, 

 which now lies on the table, in conseqiience of 

 the very pointed marsner in which the framer of 

 that address has noticed the protection and en- 

 couragenient which I have pprsonaliy affbrded io 

 the SocietV:, I shall have much pleasure in for- 

 warding it^ and in persojially solicitiDg his 

 Lordship to take the Society under his imme- 

 diate patronage. — > I nm satisfied that he 

 will entertain a due sense of the considera- 

 tion which yoii have shewn io his exalted talent?, 

 and I flatter myself that we maj confidently 



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