REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE AFRICAN INSTITUTION, READ AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ON THE TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN APPENDIX. THIRD EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED BY ELLERTON AND HENDERSON, SOLD BY J. HATCHARD, BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER, 190, PICCADILLY. (Price One Shilling.) iii PATRON AND PRESIDENT. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER. VICE-PRESIDENTS. His Grace the ARCHBISHOP of CANTERBURY. His Grace the DUKE of GRAFTON. The Right Honourable the EARL of SELKIRK. The Right Honourable EARL SPENCER. The Right Honourable EARL MOIRA. The Lord BISHOP of LONDON: The Lord BISHOP of DURHAM. The Lord BISHOP of BATH AND WELLS. The Lord BISHOP of ST. DAVID'S. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. RIGHT HON. LORD HEADLEY. SIR THOMAS BERNARD, BART. WILLIAM HENRY HOARE, ESQ. S. WHITBREAD, ESQ. M. P. TREASURER. HENRY THORNTON, ESQ. M. P. SECRETARY, pro tempore. Z. MACAULAY, ESQ. CLERK AND COLLECTOR. MR. ROBERT STOKES. THIRD REPORT, &c. &c. THE Directors propose to lay before the Subscribers a brief summary of their proceedings during the last year, referring them to the Appendix for such farther details as may be likely to prove interesting or useful. In the last Report, the Directors stated, that it was their intention to incur the expense of instructing two African Youths, who were about to return to their own country, in the admirable system of education, which was first adopted in India by Dr. Bell, and has since been introduced into this country, and greatly improved, by that gentleman and Mr. Lancaster, with a view to its being transplanted to Africa. By the favour of his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, these youths, to whom a third was afterwards added, were allowed to attend, for several months, at the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea, where about one thousand children are educated on the above plan; and were permitted, during that time, to act as teachers, under the eye of the Superin B |