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sorry to be obliged to trespass on your Grace's patience a few days longer; but it is due first to your Grace, and then to the College and to myself, that I should act with the utmost deliberation in this very grave and momentous business.

I have the honour to remain. Your Grace's faithful Servant,

Permit me to assure your Grace that if my own private feelings and character only were at stake, I should be satisfied to reply to your letter of the 25th ult. by simply putting my resignation into your Grace's hands; but as several questions of great public interest are involved in the considerations which it raises, I must crave your indulgence while I reply at length to your communication.