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£2712 had been received on the infirmary account. 
£2574 had been expended in salaries, provender, &c. leaving 
-a balance of 
£147 in favour of the institution. 
By the sale of drugs £65 had been gained; and £7 lost by 
the forge. The subscriptions had amounted to £1750; and 
.the number of actual subscribers exceeded 800. £1094 re¬ 
mained in the hands of the bankers, and £4036 stood in the 
name of proper trustees in the 4 per cent, consols. The actual 
profit of the Company during the last', year (for it is, what it 
should long ago have ceased to be, a joint stock speculation) 
we cannot state. Rapidly as the secretary read we could not 
collect what the expenditure of the £2574 included. 
We would hint to the governors the propriety, injustice to 
themselves and to the college, of publishing, or, at least, 
distributing among the subscribers, an annual .report of the 
finances and transactions of the institution. 
A long, and irregular, and very unpleasant altercation now 
ensued respecting a coiTespondence between the secretary and 
Mr. Cherry. Mr. Cherry complained that he had been 
neglected and insulted by Mr. Sewell, and Mr. Sewell pro¬ 
duced a letter from Mr. Cheny couched in no very gentle terms. 
Mr. Cheny then threw on the table the whole correspondence, 
which the chaiiman veiy properly would not read; and 
although, perhaps, a little more of the suaviter in modo might 
have accompanied the rebuke, he did perfectly right in peremp¬ 
torily forbidding the continuance of a dispute which could lead 
to no possible good result. 
One important piece of infoimiation was elicited from the 
chairman, Mr. Cherry’s ignorance or forgetfulness of which 
might possibly have led to the misunderstanding between him 
and the secretaiy,—that all memorials, communications, com¬ 
plaints, &c. were to be addressed .to the governors, enclosed in 
a letter to the secretary, requesting him to lay them before the 
proper committee. 
A gratuity of 20 guineas was then voted to the head groom. 
An application was then read from Mr. Morton, the clerk and 
dispenser, requesting larger and more suitable apartments. A 
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