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efforts, for it was an effort in a Country like this, where the sun 
was so magnificent but at the same time made itself so much felt, 
it was a toil to come of an evening, after a fatiguing day, and 
deliver a lecture which, in itself, had required on their part, in 
order to condense it, so much labour, so much thought, so much 
work. When he was invited, he was reminded of some beautiful 
lines that were sent on one occasion by Foster, the great friend of 
Dickens, to Dickens in London. — 
Come with me and behold 
A friend with heart -as gentle for distress, 
As resolute with fine wise thoughts, to bind 
The happiest, to the unhappiest of our kind. 
Those were beautiful lines, which really' in his opinion summed 
up the desire of the people who were at the head of the Institute, 
namely, kindness to the poor and uninstructed, and that heart 
which desired that mankind should be real fellowship, and which 
desired to impart to others knowledge which they possessed 
themselves, ungrudgingly and unselfishly ; and therefore they 
might imagine that it was with great gratitude and a great 
sense of the honour which was conferred on him, that he accepted 
at once the position. But the Committee went further. 
Human nature was never satisfied with one requirement, He 
had found by long experience that when somebody had got what 
he wanted he immediately found something else that he wished 
to have as soon as possible after that. In official life, those 
officials who were present would bear him out. He had never 
given promotion to a man that did not want another 
promotion within six months (laughter). Well, the Com 
mittee of that Institute then asked him to wive a lec- 
or at all events, to give an address He 
a little more discomforting, for he bad bad no idea 
a lecture, aud with the multifarious duties 
. .. ln cumbent on the governor of this Colony, he 
thought the subject would at all events be a difficult one to 
X e '^°X at ^ t: up - of wha v va : 
upon which he could personally say perhaps somelhing^therl 
were orators and lecturers found who knew n • S - ’ 
and to whom he would listen with much more 
could possibly deliver a lecture himself 
particularly unhappy. He did 
subject could he choose? He though I tV, ''"Tv. 7 uu \ " T 
would tell them of a subject which nerhaiSt , that Perhaps he 
before, namelv the <• 1 lha P s had not been treated 
But 
several people in 
ture also, 
found that 
of giving 
which were 
sht 
interest than he 
himself. He was really 
not know what to do. What 
WiUCn 
even e ther he" Jas 6 
