Chap. I. NEGOTIATIONS WITH GOVERNMENT. 13 
to the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, with a view 
of obtaining the sanction of the executive Government : 
and they imagined themselves to have received such 
cordial encouragement from his lordship, as Avell as 
from Lord Ho wick, to whom Lord Melbourne referred 
them for the settlement of matters of detail, that they 
f6lt justified in collecting a body of intending colonists 
as an indispensable means of carrying out the under- 
taking. 
Among other steps taken by the Association, were 
two applications to the Church Missionary Society, 
with a view of establishing a friendly feeling and 
active co-operation between the two bodies. The first 
was made by a deputation which waited upon Mr. 
Dandeson Coates ; by whom they were frankly in- 
formed, that, "though he had no doubt of their respect- 
*' ability and the purity of their motives, he was op- 
" posed to the colonization of New Zealand in any 
" shape, and was determined to thwart them by all the 
" means in his power." The second was a letter from 
Dr. Hinds, in behalf of his colleagues, and addressed 
to the Committee of the Society, but of which the 
receipt was not even acknowledged. 
The views of the Association were openly and 
covertly opposed by Mr. Coates, now by a published 
pamphlet in the form of a letter to Lord Glenelg, at 
that time Colonial JMinister, and then by a pamphlet 
marked ' Confidential,' which was privily but exten- 
sively circulated. These documents flatly charged the 
members of the Association with being influenced by 
motives of personal gain. 
When it became necessary again to apply to Lord 
Melbourne, this time for his ultunate sanction of a 
Bill which was now ready to be submitted to Parlia- 
ment, his lordship received a deputation from the As- 
