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  makes elegance and refinement the last effeef
  of opulence and power.
   
       An Institution like this has often been re-
  commended upon considerations merely mer-
  cantile ; but an Academy, founded upon suck
  principles , can never effect even its own narrow
  purposes. If it has an origin no higher, no
  taste can ever be formed in manufactures ;
  but if the higher Arts of Design flourish, these
  inferior ends will be answered of course.
   
       We are happy in having a PRINCE, who
  has conceived the design of such an institution,
  according to its true dignity ; and who promotes
  the Arts, as the' head of a great, a learned, at
  polite, and a commercial nation ; and I can now
  congratulate you, Gentlemen, on the accom-
  plishment of your long and ardent wishes,
     
       The numberless and ineffectual consul-
  tations which I have had with many in this
  assembly, to form plans and concert schemes
  for an Academy, afford a sufficient proof of
  the impossibility of succeeding but by the
  influence of MAJESTY. But there have,