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412 to promote the Interest of the Seminary under our Inspection and Government." Dr. Smith, on 5 August, was taken by Mr. Penn to an audience with the King in order to present this Address. Mr. Inglis, as a Trustee, and Mr. Powel, an alumnus, accompanied them. The King was gracious and asked several questions about the College. In one of his letters he says : He almost got Mr Powel knighted, but thought it would be idle, and be considered as a design to separate him from his old friends, the Quakers at home ; a thought which he would scorn in regard to any of his Pupils. He did not know whether it would be agreeable to Mr. Powel, and therefore gave it to be understood that he desired no honours, but only to testify gratitude. 9 As Dr. Jay had been Knighted in the previous April on presenting the Address of King's College, it was reasonable for Dr. Smith to hope the like honor for his lay companion at this scene. In later letters Dr. Smith continues his narrative. On 24 April, 1763, he acknowledges from London the receipt of the " Addresses of the Trustees to the Archbishop, Mr. Penn, and Dr. Chandler," which " were delivered and kindly received," and he proceeds : I shall leave this place by the 1 2th of May at farthest having kept back the Collection at York, Liverpool, and some other considerable towns. From thence I shall cross over to Ireland and try to get away for America by 1st September, for I will by no means take a winter passage. The Trustees may depend that I shall leave nothing undone that requires my presence and shall rather stay another winter, how irk- some and inconvenient soever than desert the good cause which I have carried on so far with success. * * * At present our Col- lection goes on well in the several parishes of this city and I take the usual pains to get proper Preachers. In a most divided kingdom, by a happy Fate, the leaders of all sides have been induced to contribute. We have in our list the names of the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Bute, and Mr Pitt ; and both Universities have been liberal. From Lady Curzon, who happened to be one of my audience when I preached at Curzon Street Chapel (commonly called Mayfair Chapel), I received one Hundred pounds. My friend Mr Dawkins readily gave fifty pounds and 9 Smith, i. 322.