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 constitutional check to their propagation in the College; for the tenor of my religious belief and practice and teaching, is precisely now what it was when I first came to the College, three years ago.

If, then, after my resignation, the Primate were to withdraw his countenance from the College—(a contingency which he contemplates, even in the event of my resigning)—leaving the College under this stigma, I should be justly chargeable with betraying, not only its interests, but also the principles on which it was instituted and has been conducted, and with which you and all connected with it are identified.

This I have no right to do without your sanction; and I am therefore compelled, by a sense both of public and private duty, to call upon the Fellows to proceed, with as little delay as possible, to the investigation of the charge, according to the provisions of the Xllth Statute of the College, a copy of which I inclose.

The correspondence which has passed between his Grace and myself shall be laid before you as soon as possible.

I beg further to inform you, that the XXVth Statute requires that meetings for the determination of all such matters shall be held in the College; but by the XXIXth Statute it is provided, that a meeting for this purpose may be held without my previous consent.

I must decline to suggest any course of proceeding in a matter affecting my own conduct and character; but I shall be happy to offer every facility in my