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upon that point, and could not divest themselves 

 of several ideas, which at jirst appeared to them 



INSURMOUNTABLE difficulties. 



Such expressions were frequently repeated to 

 me, and produced the following correspondence 

 by which those difficulties were removed. 

 Knowing that the Board of Managers consists 

 of noblemen and gentlemen of the highest 

 rank and respectability in the kingdom, per- 

 fectly sympathising with them in the pro- 

 priety and delicacy of their feelings, lest I 

 should trespass upon the province of some other 

 professors, (an unnecessary apprehension,) I fre- 

 quently asserted the implicit reliance I had in 

 their honour ; and stated in my correspondence 

 that my sole wish in communicating my sug- 

 gestions to them, was to put them fully and 

 UNRESERVEDLY in possession of all my views, 

 thereby to assist them in forming their judg- 

 ment upon my proposals which I requested 

 them to modify ; as I was only anxious to pro- 

 ceed with them in the most liberal manner, 

 and to meet their wishes in every respect ; 

 (vide the Correspondence, Proposals, No. 2.) 

 fully confident, that if they approved of my 

 suggestions, they would not adopt them to my 

 exclusion, and that they would observe in their 

 arrangements, with respect to myself, the same 

 delicacy they felt and had often expressed for 

 others. As they would not allow me to tres- 



