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House of Commons and the Government that had assisted in 
obtaining their Charter.” Very many had kindly taken great pains 
in forwarding their views in the course of this business. The 
gentlemen on whom the care of their interests had devolved had 
been called upon, on numerous occasions, to communicate their 
wants and wishes both to members of the Government and to many 
of their patrons in the House of Commons. On all occasions they 
had found in these distinguished individuals the utmost desire to 
assist and serve them in their views ; and he considered that they 
were greatly bound to them, not merely for the kind reception which 
they had always experienced at their hands, but for the efforts 
which these gentlemen had made to do every thing that could 
conduce to their service. He, therefore, considered that they were 
called upon to mark their grateful sense of the kindness which 
they had experienced, by drinking the health of the various 
members of the Government and the House of Commons who had 
assisted them in procuring their Charter. 
The toast was accordingly drunk with all the honours, and was 
followed by a song from Mr. Turner, sen., a fine healthy old gen- 
tleman of eighty-five, who, with a voice and style that would have 
done credit to a man fifty years his junior, gave the good old song, 
“ My friend is a man I would copy through life,” in a manner which 
called forth unanimous applause. 
Mr. Youatt rose to propose the next toast. He said that it 
was generally true, if a man had once forgotten his duty in any 
point, that he was sure to be punished for his neglect sooner or 
later. What had taken place on that day was a sufficient corrobo- 
ration of the truth of this axiom. He had come to the meeting, 
because he gloried in the cause, the successful termination of 
which they were met to celebrate; but he had not been there 
any great time before all who were not members of the College 
were desired to withdraw. This was, he confessed, a home- 
stroke, and he felt it keenly ; but, nevertheless, he knew not 
what other course the gentleman who presided could have adopted 
in this case, consistently with his duty. 
A toast had now been put into his hands to introduce to the 
company ; and even this gave rise to some unpleasant retrospects. 
It reminded him of what he might,, or perhaps, ought to have done 
