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Would that you too, Illustrious Earl of Guilford! whose premature departure from the sphere of your beneficence has left to your admiring friends, to your loving and numerous dependants, a loss incapable of repair, a grief that can never be consoled—would that you, too, could have prolonged your inestimable life for the advantage of those Institutions most beneficial to mankind, which it was your constant endeavour to establish and support! You would have again deigned to peruse, with renewed attention, the printed sheets of the Archdeacon's Journal, which it was your delight so sedulously to read, as, at your command, they were produced in the Translated Manuscript. May your immortal spirit still shed its influence, from the realms above, upon the powerful body of your exalted rank, to follow the bright example which you have bequeathed them of encouraging, to their utmost, the continual and rapid advancement of sound learning and practical information!