LETTER, &c. 



WHILE the following proposals of December 

 14, 1808, and of January 28, 1809, were sub- 

 mitted to the consideration of the Board of 

 Managers of the Royal Institution, and before 

 the gentlemen of that Board had passed their 

 resolution of January 30, 1809, for their adop- 

 tion, I had, besides the following correspon- 

 dence, some little intercourse with that Board, 

 through one of its influential members, who did 

 me the honour of calling upon me several times, 

 who, with great kindness solicited the attention 

 of the managers to my papers, and who took 

 successful pains in recommending them to the 

 favourable notice of the gentlemen with whom 

 he was acting. On the 1st of February 1809, 

 when I accepted an engagement from the 

 Board, through that gentleman, to deliver a 

 course of six lectures, to commence from the 

 middle of March, I was given to understand 



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