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muneration, I shall as soon as I can repay the snm I have 

 received. I am, indeed, more likely to repay it by my 

 executors than myself. If I could quit my bedroom, I 

 would have hazarded everything rather than not have come, 

 but I have such violent fits of sickness and diarrhoea that 

 it is literally impossible. S. T. COLERIDGE. 



' Ordered, That Mr. Coleridge's lectures be discon- 

 tinued, and that Mr. Savage make out an account of 

 the number of lectures that Mr. Coleridge has given, 

 in order that a proportional payment may be made.' 



On June 20, 2,000. being wanted for the payment of 

 the tradesmen's bills and salaries, the managers and 

 visitors subscribed it as a loan without interest. The 

 tradesmen were paid to December 1806. 



The terms of subscription to the Institution were 

 altered thus : Annual, four guineas ; and life subscrip- 

 tion, forty guineas ; the qualification for proprietors 

 was reduced to a hundred guineas. 



The position of the Koyal Institution is well seen 

 in the following report, which the Committee of 

 Managers made to the Committee of Visitors, on the 

 deficiency of the income of the Institution, &c., on 

 March 20, 1809. 



They begin by stating ' that the 700 transferable 

 tickets of the proprietors stopped the annual income 

 from subscribers. In January 1803 the corporation 

 were 3,000. in debt. A subscription was made ; 

 transferable rights were reduced one-half, so as to 

 allow of a greater number of annual subscribers. 



c The effects of the measures were soon felt. The 

 income was more than doubled and public interest 



