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Rh his auditors and his friends two noble schemes of education which the New England in distant Pennsylvania and New York were endeavoring to plant on sure foundations. The early disappointment of Dr. Smith was turned into a measure of success he had hardly hoped for. Eventually Dr. Smith admitted this in his letter of 1 1 February, 1764, when he says : " taking the cause of New York along with ours, rather than acting in opposition, by which each of us have got double of what we could in that case have hoped for singly." Jay's appeal had shown a great strength, inasmuch as he represented a " King's College," whose title alone appealed directly to royalty, and with success, and the royal bounty was testified to in the sum of 400 to the College he represented, while the Philadelphia College was remembered to the extent of but 200. When the tidings of the Prince's birth reached New York, the Governors of the College prepared an address of loyal congrat- ulations to the King, which Dr. Jay presented in person on 23 April, 1763, at which time he was knighted by the King. 5 Dr. Smith's description of the issue of the Brief is told to the Trustees in that loyal strain in which his enthusiasm showed the brightest, and concludes the letter already quoted. 6 The glorious 12 August (the ist o. s.) remarkable heretofore for so many good things, viz : the Battle of the Boyne 7 and Minden, and the accession of the present Royal Family ; became again remarkable for the Birth of a young Prince, the accession of the Riches of the Hermione, a larger prize thanAnson's, and if small things may be mentioned after these, the ordering and passing our Brief, which three things happened before 9 o'clock on Thursday Morning. For the Prince [George IV.] was born half an hour past seven ; the Treasure passed by the Palace a little after Eight, and the Council that met before Nine to Register the Birth did our Busi- ness. The circumstances attending this were as honorable to us as any- thing could be. For finding that we could get no Council to meet on our Account, and finding that the Chancellor and others thought not very favorably of the Design, as it might lead to too frequent Applications of the like Nature from the Colonies, we fixed before hand with the Archbishop 6 Sir James Jay died in New York, 12 October, 1815. 6 Minutes of November 1762. 7 Here he wrote hastily, for the Battle of Boyne was on I July, 1690, n. s .and that of Minden on I August, 1759, n. s.