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 your letter, as my object is to confine my remarks to the main points which are involved in our correspondence. JOHN G. ARMAGH. The Rev. the Warden of S. Culumba's.

Grace's reiterated and yet more emphatic charge against me of holding and inculcating extreme opinions on ecclesiastical matters, leaves me no choice but to call upon the Fellows to investigate the truth of that charge; and I respectfully decline to decide upon the question of resignation until my character is cleared from that imputation, or the charge is substantiated according to the XIIth Statute of the College; in which latter case, your Grace, as Visitor, has the absolute power of dismissal.

I will lose no time in laying the case before the Fellows.

I beg permission to correct two inaccuracies in your Grace's letter. 1 . My letter to Mr. Brooke, avowing the signature to the "Memorial," bears date the 25th of October, the date of your Grace's letter to me;