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The President denied that assertion. Professor Dick had in- 
vited all the Council down. (Hear, hear, hear.) 
Professor Dick admitted that he had done so, but not to take 
private notes, and make double reports, as the Deputation did. 
Mr. Mayhew contended, that what Mr. Spooner did as a private 
individual while he was at Edinburgh, he alone was answerable for 
to Professor Dick as an individual ; but if he had acted as one of the 
Council, then was the Council answerable. He was surprised 
that Mr. Cherry, a man of education, who had been in the army, 
associating with gentlemen — he repeated he was surprised at 
hearing that gentleman asserting that which he would himself 
spurn. He was, however, sure he would not offend knowingly. 
What, however, were the facts'? why, that those gentlemen had gone 
down to Edinburgh, and looked at things as they saw them, and not 
with Professor Dick’s eyes ; and as they saw them, so they spoke of 
them ; and in having done so, they had offended Professor Dick. 
The Secretary here read a minute of the meeting at which he 
had said Mr. Cherry was present. 
Mr. Cherry said, as great stress had been put on the name 
of Cherry by the Secretary, he w’ould observe that there was 
nothing in the minute to prove that Mr. Cherry either voted or 
expressed an opinion on the subject. He could recollect well, and 
so could the Secretary, that on the occasion in question, he said 
that, not being sufficiently acquainted in the matter, he should 
neither support nor oppose the motion, and that, when he ascer- 
tained the real facts, he then was decidedly against it. 
Mr. Mayhew would qnly further say, that if the Council were 
wrong, Mr. Cherry was wrong also, as he, as one of the Council, 
had passed the item of account which he now objected to. 
Mr. Cherry explained, that the ground on which he objected to 
the account was, that the Deputation was sent down by only a 
section of the Council, and not by the body of them. 
Professor Dick said he objected to their having been sent, for 
the reason stated by Mr. Cherry, and also to the payment of the item. 
Mr. Withers then moved as an amendment, that the accounts 
be now confirmed, passed, and printed for circulation. 
Mr. Mayhew seconded the amendment. 
The President having put the amendment, it was carried, there 
being for it, 23 — against it, 5. 
The President then proposed that the meeting should open a 
list of annual subscriptions for the support of the College they 
were so proud of. 
Mr. Mayhew thought that their having done so ought to be made 
known publicly. There were so many vast interests so intimately 
