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correspondence, and the whole of my conduct 

 towards themselves and their subscribers, will 

 show that it is not by any failing on my part that 

 I am excluded from their present lists. 



In the multiplicity of more important en- 

 gagements, and in a highly commendable zeal 

 to serve the establishment, over which they 

 preside, the managers of the Royal Institution 

 have probably lost sight of the fair pretensions 

 of the author of these proposals, which, in 

 their deliberations, they evidently have thought 

 proper to adopt. 



M. L. ESTE. 



