CÖTlRESPO'NIïENC«. ^ 



HIS LORDSHIP S REPLY, 



To 



The IlonoraUc Thomas Stamford Raf^ 

 FLES, President of the Literart/ Societif 

 of Batavia, 



Sm, 

 I have had the honour of receiving yoiir 

 letter of the 25th April, enclosing ari Address 

 from the Merabers of the Xiterajrj Society of 

 Batavia^ in which thej are plcased, in terms 

 much too partial, but on that account highly 

 gratifjing to ray mind, io offer me the dis* 

 tinguished title of Patron of their learned 

 Insütution. 



I reqnest you^ Sir, as President of the So- 

 ciety, to convey my gratefiil acknowledgnients 

 for this flattering mark of their csteem. It is 

 doubtly acceptable, first/ as connecting my 

 name with a body, eminent in Literature and 

 Science, but most as associating me in pursuits 

 beneiicial to a country^ my relations with 

 which will ever be a subject of gratifying re- 

 coUection, and whose improvement in know- 

 ledge, reputation and welfare, I shall continue 

 to cherish as objects of warm and paternal 

 interest, long afte'r ï shall have lost in the 



