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 THE CEREMONY OF INSTALLATION 
 
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 IT WILL BE PERFORMED FEBRUARY 8, 1820. 
 
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 THE CEREMONY OF INSTALLATION 
 
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 IT WILL BE PERFORMED FEBRUARY 8, 1820. 
 
 " QUAMTUM EST IN KKBV8 HI AXE.'\— SocUty't MottO. 
 
 NEW YORK: 
 PRINTED FOR THE DSE OF THE MEMBERS. 
 
 1820. 
 
 
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REPRINTED 1864. 
 THIRTY-FIVE COPIES. 
 
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CEREMONY 
 
 INSTALLATION 
 
 DAVID HOSACK, M. D., LL. D., D. D., 
 
 R. S., London, Edinbukgh, Hatti and Pekin : Fiest Vice- 
 
 Pkesident or the New Yoek Society of Conchology and 
 
 Indian Earthen Wake; Omnium Academiaeum 
 
 Americanarum, vel Artium, vel Scientia- 
 
 eum, vel a. b. c, socius; nec non 
 
 Fkater honorarius consociatus 
 
 ADVIOINTI-QUATnOE SoCIE- 
 
 . tates Europ^as om- 
 se3 in linea, 
 
 AS 
 
 President of the New York Historical Society. 
 On the 8th of February, 1820. 
 
 The Committee of Arrangement, consisting of 
 five Generals of Militia, five Doctors of Law, five 
 Doctors of Medicine, and five Doctors of Divini- 
 ty, have unanimously appointed 
 
 Gen. Jacob Morton, their Chairman, and 
 Dr. Valentine Mott, their Secretary. 
 
Mr. Simpson, of the New York Theatre has volun- 
 teered his services as Stage manager for the 
 ceremony. 
 
 Scriblerus Busby, LL. D., and J. A. Graham, 
 LL. D., will act as Installators on the occasion. 
 
 The Society will meet at their Hall precisely at 
 4 P. M: the clergy in their gowns, militia othcers 
 in full uniform: all the otlicr members with clean 
 linen, and well shaved ; coats, hats, and shoes 
 brushed. Seats reserved for the Ladies. 
 
 John G. Bogert, Esq., Eussian Consul, and Presi- 
 dent of the Board of Counsellors of the Society, 
 will take the chair in full consular uniform ; an 
 empty arm chair being placed under the canopy at 
 his right hand. 
 
 The minutes having been read, and the election 
 of Officers duly announced^ Drs. Busby and Graham, 
 in their red robes, as Doctors of Law, will then intro- 
 duce the President elect, clad in a white surplice 
 with black gloves; the chairman and all the mem- 
 bers rising to receive him. They will lead the 
 President elect to the chali-, and Dr. Busby will 
 then say unto the chairman, 
 
 Salve vir doctis.siiiie. 
 Consul spectiitissiuic — 
 Hie pvesento, our new Praises; 
 To be seated, ubi sedes. 
 
The chairman shall then arise ; and having first 
 placed the President-elect in the chair on his right, 
 shall make an harangue in the Russian tongue in 
 honor of Governor Clinton and the President-elect, 
 after which, first bowing to the President elect and 
 then to Drs. Busby and Graham, and finally to all 
 the members, he shall say or chaunt aloud, 
 
 Viri spectatissimi, 
 
 JjJj. i).'s doctissimi 
 
 Et vos omnes, Learned Fellows, 
 
 Nunc requiro that you tell us 
 
 Whether no objections are 
 
 That this man should be our Czar ? 
 
 Then Dr. Graham shall make an excellent Eng- 
 lish speech, in honour of Governor Clinton and the 
 President-elect; after which Dr. Busby shall make 
 a Greek speech, in honour of Governor Clinton and 
 the President-elect; after which Mr. Daponte shall 
 make an Italian speech in honour of Governor 
 Clinton and the President-elect; after which, Mr. 
 Boinior shall make a French speech, in honour of 
 Governor Clinton and the President-elect, after 
 which, Mr. Verplanck shall make a Dutch speech 
 in honour of Governor Clinton and the President- 
 elect; after which, Mr. Gahn shall make a Sweedish 
 speech, in honour of Governor Clinton and the 
 President-elect; after which. Dr. Mac Niven shall 
 
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 make an Ii'ish speech in honour of Governor Clin- 
 ton and the President-elect; after which, Mr. A. H. 
 Palmer shall make a Chinese speech, in honour of 
 Governor Clinton and the President-elect; after 
 which, Major Noah shall make a Hehrew speech, in 
 honour of Governor Clinton and the President-elect. 
 These being concluded. The Diplomas of mem- 
 bership of all the learned Societies to which the 
 President-elect has been associated shall be drawn 
 into the room in the triumphal car, built under the 
 direction of Stephen Price, Esq., for the triumphal 
 entry of Alexander the Great into Babylon, on the 
 New York Theatre. The diplomas shall all be read 
 aloud alternately by Drs. Busby and Graham, at the 
 conclusion of each of which the President-elect 
 shall rise, and, bowing gracefully unto the Society, 
 
 shall chaunt, elara voce, 
 
 Verum est, at uuii est Hum 
 Quare dico, diguus sum, 
 Vaster Prfeses, for to be, 
 lu this wise Society. 
 
 To which the members shall chaunt iu reply, 
 Dignus, Dignus, diguus es, 
 For to be our new Pra3ses. 
 
 Then Dr. Busby sliall road aloud the President 
 elect's diploma of M. D. ; whereupon four M. D's, 
 in their robes shall advance, bearing a Medical robe 
 
whicli they shall put on to the President-elect, in 
 such wise as not to hide his surplice. Dr. Bushy 
 shall then say or sing, 
 
 Hie Prseses, magnus, novus noster, 
 Medicinse nunc est Doctor — 
 Quare dignus, dignus est, 
 As it is by all confess'd, 
 Praeses noster for to be 
 In hoc docto corpore. 
 
 Then the members shall chaunt in reply, 
 Dignus, Dignus, dignus es, 
 For to be our new I'raeses. 
 
 Then Dr. Busby shall read, clara voce as before, the 
 President-elect's diploma of LL. D. ; after which 
 four Doctors of the Law all robed in their red robes, 
 shall enrobe the President-elect with the Gown and 
 Hood of a Doctor of Laws, but in such wise as not 
 to hide the medical robe, or the surplice. Dr. 
 Busby shall then say, or chaunt, 
 
 Duplex Doctor est hie Praeses, 
 Medicinam scit et Leges, 
 Latine scribit, etiam Chaldee, 
 Quare dico, dignus, valde 
 Est hie magnus duplex Doctor, 
 Prasses noster for to be, 
 In this wise Society. 
 
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 All tlie members chaunt, in reply, as before, 
 
 Dignus, dignus, dignus es, 
 For to be our new Prseses. 
 
 Bis. 
 Then Dr. Busby shall read aloud the President- 
 elect's diploma of Doctor of Divinity, whereupon 
 four D. D.'s shall advance bearing the fall robe and 
 hood of an Oxford D. D., which they shall throw 
 over the back of the President-elect in such wise as 
 still to show his other oflicial integuments. Dr. 
 Busby shall then say or sing aloud, 
 
 Triples Doctor est hie Prajses 
 Cures souls' and bodies' bad diseases, 
 In Law and Physic capit fees, 
 Nam habet all the three degrees; 
 Quod dico nunc vobis, permagnum est omen, 
 Quod foret perpetuum per secula nomen. 
 
 To which the Society shall chaunt in reply, 
 
 Dignus, dignus, dignus es, 
 
 For to be our new Prseses. 
 
 Three times repeated 
 After which rising they shall add, 
 
 Et, bene, we know without any omen, 
 Quod erit perpetuum per secula nomen. 
 
 After this the grand Ode, written for the occa- 
 sion by Brevet Major Pindar ^Puif, Poet Laureat to 
 his Excellency, shall bo performed by Domiuick 
 
Lynch, Esq., assisted in the recitative by T. A. 
 Cooper, Esq. ; music composed by Dr. Jackson ; all 
 the mend)ers joinino- in the yrand ///(«/(, will chaunt 
 these words: 
 
 Ilail t(i great Hosack — triple Doctor thou I 
 Of Law and Physic erst, of Saerod Letters now! 
 Thrice hail to Clinton — greater Doctor still I 
 Who wields the State, as Ilosack wields the Pill ! ! 
 The whole to conclude with the grand Ckasii. 
 When this is done, Colonel Fell will enter in full 
 uniform, with all his orders, preceded by a full baud 
 of martial music. Colonel Pell, advancing iuto the 
 middle of the room, taking out a white cambric 
 handkerhief, and standing erect, shall read aloud 
 Governor Clinton's Brevet of "honour," of Major 
 General in the militia, conferred upon the Presi- 
 dent-elect; after which General Colden and Gene- 
 ral R. Macomb shall put on the shoulders of the 
 President-elect, over liis robes, a pair of large 
 epaulettes, and shall place upon his head the hat 
 worn by Napojeon at the battle of Waterloo; 
 whereupon, General Morton shall fix a plume, 
 which he shall take from his own hat, and Colonel 
 Pell shall gird him with his own belt and sword, 
 giving him therewith the accolade of knighthood. 
 Then all the militia officers, rising, shall draw and 
 salute General Hosack; during which martial 
 
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 music sliiill play, aiul jmiifli shall he liaiuled to the 
 ladies. 
 
 The chairman Mr. Bogart, shall then order Dr. 
 Williamson's grandmother's family Bible* to be 
 brought in ; after which, rising from the chair of 
 state, he shall liow profoundly four times: 1st to 
 the bust of Governor Clinton ; 2d, to the New 
 President; 3d, to the Society; 4thly, turning his 
 back unto the Society, he shall bow slowly and pro- 
 foundly unto the vacant chair; then he shall with 
 both hands hand the President-elect nnto the chair 
 of State (martial music playing a Russian air); after 
 this he shall again bow unto the President, and shall 
 descend and seat liimself among the private mem- 
 bers, but in a chair specially reserved for him under 
 his own bust. 
 
 Applause — Music — and Punch. 
 Dr. Graham shall then reverently hold the grand 
 maternal Williamson Bible open before the Presi- 
 dent on his right hand, and the President placing 
 both his hands thereon, Dr. Busby, standing at his 
 left hand, shall proceed to administer the Oaths of 
 Office thus: 
 
 Juras, Clinton adorare 
 
 Pifi'-j)aff-puifere et laudaie. 
 
 *Tlie one menfioneJ in Dr. Hosaok's Eulogy of Dr. Williamson, 
 and now in the library of the Historical Society 
 
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 To which the I'rofi'uk'nt shall reply. 
 
 .1 urn Cliiituii ailiirare 
 
 I'iff-paft'-puffore et laudavL'. 
 Dr. Bushy: 
 
 .luras. ut miiii|M:nii, iiuiujiiaiii. never 
 
 Tluiu wilt tVuiu Cliuli'ii's t'ui'tuiics sever? 
 
 The President: 
 
 Juro, ur iiun(|iialu, nunquain, never 
 Will I from Clinton's fortunes sever ! 
 
 Dr. Busby : 
 
 Abjiiras SaiRtmn 'I'am.manku.M, 
 Vt pravuni. foeiliun. turpeni renin ? 
 
 The President: 
 
 Abjurci Sanctum Taninianeuui. 
 Ut pravuni. Ibeduni. tiirpeni reuni. 
 
 When the President siiall rise from his seat, 
 and the Hon. William 1*. Van Ness, tbllovved by six 
 other members whose names incipmnt in Va7i, shall 
 advance, and, gravely bowing, shall present unto 
 Dr. Busby the Sceptre of the Society, or the gold 
 headed cane of Kip V:in Dam. Dr. Busby sliall 
 present it unto the President, and then both instal- 
 lators shall bow thirteen times unto the President, 
 (in memory of the original thirteen States,) and 
 unto the Society as many times as there may be 
 States admitted into the Union at the moment of 
 
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 so bo^viug.* After this they shall descend and seat 
 themselves by the side of Mr. Bogoit. 
 
 Then the President will deliver unto the Society 
 an Oration on the comparative merits of the two 
 patron saints of the Institution, Santa Claus (or 
 St Mcholas) and I)e Witt Clinton, or Dr. Clinton. 
 
 This done, the wliole Society shall arise, and Mr. 
 Barent Gardenier shall set tlie tune of "Santa 
 Claus, goot heylig man," in which ancient carol he 
 shall he accompanied by Mr. Bleecker,' Judge W. 
 P. Van ISTess, Mr. Verplanck, Dr. Onderdonk, and 
 the other Duteli members of the Society. 
 
 Dr. Busby will then bring forward the following 
 resolutions: 
 
 Resolved, That this Society return their thanks 
 to the Glorious and Sublime De Witt Clinton, for 
 the honour which he hath conferred upon the 
 Society by having been its President. 
 
 Eesolved, That the oration delivered before the 
 Historical Society by his Excellent Excellency, can 
 be described only in its own language, as possessing 
 "the energetic spirit of a Frenchman, and "tlie 
 sublime eloquence of an Iroquois." f 
 
 *The Society is informed that, to prevent any mistakes Mr. 
 Lang lias undertaken tljat an express shall start from Washington 
 the moment the Missouri question is settled, and arrive at the 
 New York Institution in nineteen hours and twenty-four minutes. 
 
 f Clinton's Historical Discourse. 
 
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 Resolved, That we view in l)e Witt Clinton, 
 " the tortoise of the Indian, and the Atlas of the 
 " Heathen Mythology', siistaining the world. * 
 
 Resolved, That our late and present Presidents 
 are (in the words of the formerf) "The Castor and 
 "Pollux of antiquity — lueida sidera — stars of excel- 
 lent light and benign iniluenco." 
 
 Resolved, That this Society will take warning 
 from the advice of its late beloved President, and 
 will never, "like the self-burning tree of Guinea, 
 be destroyed "l\y the tire of its own genius." J 
 
 These votes having been carried by acclamations 
 the committee appointed to petition the Legislature 
 for a further grant of luoney, or land, for a perma- 
 nent fund, will report the draft of a petition. Then 
 Dr. Eusby, turning to the bust of Governor Clinton 
 shall ssiy iu recilatke, accompanied by the whole 
 Society, 
 
 Tu es i^iaudissimus Tustiulu, 
 Qui f^eris tutum iiiuuduiu, 
 Never mortal shone as you do; 
 Tunc, grant to us a FUNDUM. 
 
 The whole ceremony will conclude with 
 PRAYERS by the PRESIDENT. 
 
 * Clinton's Address to the Academy of Fine Arts, 
 f Clinton's Address to the Academy of Fine Arts. 
 J Ditto. 
 
A Card, 
 
 Dr. Busby presenteth his profound respects to the 
 members of the New York Historical Society, and 
 requesteth that they will suspend their opinion on 
 the character of the late Dr. Williamson, until the 
 publication of Dr. Busby"s "Vindication of the hite 
 Dr. Hugh Williamson from the charges brought 
 against him by Professor Hosack, in his Eloges 
 Funebres;" wherein Dr. Busby pledgeth himself to 
 prove that the accusation against Dr. Williamson 
 of having been "A man of Letters, Homo trium 
 literarum," Anglice, a letter thief, is altogether 
 groundless. He beggeth, at the same time, that 
 it be expressly understood that this literary contro- 
 versy will in no wise interrupt the long and 
 unbroken frieudship which hath hitherto subsisted 
 between himself and President Hosack. 
 
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