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the results of their mission may be deemed
satisfactory, and obtain your approval and
confirmation. "CAMDEN,
President."
Viscount SYDNEY (the Lord Lieutenant), in moving the
first Resolution, said:—
Although I am not the right man in the right place to
take a leading part in the proceedings of an Archaeological
Society, yet, however unworthy I may be, I trust to profit by the
learning and experience of the distinguished men I see around me.
I may, without fear of contradiction, remark that you have
commenced operations this day most auspiciously; and I trust that
you will adopt the Report unanimously. It shadows forth
a prosperous future. Not only is our list of Subscribers
numerically large, but many of them are distinguished by learning
and profound Archaeological knowledge. The advantage that the
county of Kent will derive from the existence of such a Society as
this will be found in the opening of men's minds to the
observation and knowledge of what our ancestors have in former
days effected, and in the improvement in taste which we may
anticipate from the development and investigation of historical
remains, abounding as they do to such an unlimited extent in this
county.
I think you will agree with me that our gratitude is
due to those gentlemen who have taken so much trouble and interest
in the formation of the Society, and to whom the county is
assuredly much indebted. The Report of their proceedings, and the
Rules for the government of the Society, which have just been read
to us (and which, of course, can be modified, if necessary, at any
future Meeting) appear to me to meet the views and requirements of
the Society, and to merit your unanimous adoption,—a result
which I fully anticipate in proposing the first Resolution.
"That the Report just read, be adopted, with the
Rules for the government of the Society which are appended
thereto,"
[Carried unanimously.]
Earl AMHERST, in proposing the second Resolution,
said:—
I have the honour to propose a Resolution which adds
several names to the list of Vice-Presidents. There are also one
or two
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