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dispute their empire ? Happy Quito! and happy thou, illus- 

 trious Quitinian Society, seeing that thou art about to confer 

 happiness on a country so deserving of thy benefits ! And 

 you, gentlemen, whom I shall always name my friends and 

 companions, I question not but that your united efforts will 

 be crowned with success, and that each of you will apply 

 himself more and more to that which the love of the country 

 requires, laying aside every other consideration for the public 

 good and utility. Small, even very small, are the means and 

 resources which Quito possesses ; but if we all of us unite with 

 the spirit of patriotism, without leaving the smallest room for 

 envy or sloth, Quito will resuscitate, and we shall all of us 

 resuscitate. Let us begin, let us begin, seeing that with con- 

 stancy and union we shall certainly triumph. That which is 

 never undertaken, can never be brought to a conclusion; and 

 there is not in any kingdom a more mortal paralysis than that 

 of doing nothing. We are all of us poor ; but we shall all be 

 rich, if we propose to ourselves, as our guide, to be loving 

 friends of the country. I am aware of the superior obligation 

 which the character of bishop imposes on me ; and it is full in 

 my remembrance, that one of the five vows I made, on the 

 day when I received the very unexpedled notice of my being 

 ele6ted bishop of Quito, was, * that all my incomes, all my 

 books, and all my voice and pen, although weak, should be 

 employed for the benefit and succour of my beloved dio- 

 cess.' 



This eloquent discourse concludes by a tribute of the most 

 cordial thanks to the president, the founder of the Society — 

 fel'tces nos mper'io tuo — and by an address to his lady, whom 

 the bishop beseeches, in the most energetic terms, to found, 



dire6l, 



