ia rORRESPONDENCE. 



retirament of private life, the power óf being 

 instr 11 mental in the^cuUivütion of those bles- 



sings^ 



The Society has enhanced their first favour 

 by dösiring' that my bust may be placed a- 

 mongst them, an honour to which^I ara the 

 more seqsible as \t seems to bear with it a 

 token of personal regard. — I shall with great 

 pleasure take the proper steps after my ar» 

 rival in Êngland, for giving effect to this fiat^ 

 tering wish. 



I beg leavc to acknowlèdge the recèlpt of 

 the printed transactions óf the Society^ which 

 will hold an interesting place in my libraryj 

 and serve to perpetnate in my family the re- 

 collection of my connexion with Java^ and 

 with those who adorn it with their liberal and 

 ingenuous laboiirs. 



Perrait me to add the satisfaction with which 

 I see myself joined, Sir, in the esteem of the 

 Society, with your name, and to affix by this 

 letter the signature of an absent brother, to the 

 warm bilt jiist testimony borne by the Society, 

 to the ardour, with which, in the raidst of 

 many other public cares^ you have taken a 



