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" I must therefore refer you, as one of that Senatus Academicus, 

 to your colleagues, who will, I have no doubt, give that opinion 

 which shall appear to them most conducive to the furtherance of 

 the important duties of the University, without prejudice to the 

 individual right of any member of that learned body. I have the 

 honor to be, sir, your most obedient servant, 



" W. Huskisson." 



FROM MR. CANNING. 



" Foreign Office, June 21, 1825. 

 " Dear Sir : — The alarm under which your letter of the 8th was 

 written, has, I think, subsided long ago, in consequence of the an- 

 swers which your representations received from other quarters. I 

 only write lest you should think that I had neglected your letter, 

 or felt no interest in your concerns. I am, dear sir, your obedient 

 and faithful servant, Geo. Canning. 



"Mr. Professor Wilson." 



FROM SIR ROBERT PEEL. 

 [Private.] "Whitehall, June 21, 1825. 



" Sir : — The project of establishing a new and separate Profes- 

 sorship of Political Economy in the University of Edinburgh did 

 not receive any encouragement from me. I understand that it is 

 altogether abandoned ; and I have only, therefore, to assure you, 

 that before I would have given my assent to it under any circum- 

 stances, I should have considered it my duty to ascertain that the 

 institution of a new Chair was absolutely necessary for the pur- 

 poses for which it professed to be instituted, and that the just privi- 

 leges of other professors were not affected by it. I have the honor 

 to be, sir, your obedient servant, Robert Peel. 



" Professor Wilson, etc., etc., Edinburgh." 



He did not " leave his charming cottage," but very soon found 

 more interesting work than political economy to occupy his thoughts. 

 Mr. Blackwood soon after writes of his " going on with another 

 volume," and also says, " I rejoice, too, that you are preparing your 

 Outlines."* Of the " other volume " nothing more was heard. 

 Some small portion of its intended contents was probably con- 



* In December, 1825, 1 find advertised as " speedily to be published, in one voL, 8vo., Prospectus 

 of a Course of Moral Inquiry, by John Wilson, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Univer- 

 sity of Edinburgh;" this book, however, never appeared. 

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