terms, resolves itself into a simple calculation, whether If indeed your Hon'ble Court derermine to restrict the refunds to the more fortunate Servants whose sub- the number of annuities permanently to six per annum scriptions exceed the quarter value, are likely to equal, fall or two-thirds of the original number, the values of the short, or exceed the fines to be required from others to remaining three may be applied to the refund of excess make good that proportion, subscriptions; but if the whole income be applied to Fines, 133,592-10-2 The result of the experimen- granting annuities, there will be no source from which Refunds, 18,060-13-5 tal rule to the present date has to supply this outlay. 1,17,532 0 0 shown an excess of fines Your memorialists therefore beg submissively to solicit from your Hon'ble Court, not that the rule as passed by the Service may be allowed to stand, under which only six annuities can be granted annually on the terms of quarter payment with refund of excess of But your memorialists are not prepared to draw from this circumstance the conclusion, that the subscriptions of retiring members will ordinarily fall short of that subscriptions, but that you will permit the Fund to grant proportion, more especially when the Fund shall annuities not exceeding nine in number to the extent of have been of that duration, that servants will ordina- the annual fixed income of the Fund from subscriptions, rily have subscribers for the whole period of their service. your donation, and interest on the fixed capital, unAlthough therefore your memorialists are convinced der the condition of requiring retiring Servants to that the Fund may safely grant annuities to the extent make good to the extent of a quarter of the value of of its fixed income on the terms of requiring no further their annuities; but receiving no refund of any excess payment in the way of fine from retiring Servants, and in the amount of their subscriptsons, in case these should the necessity of making good, a quarter value may fitly at the time of retirement with interest exceed the annuies and advantageously be applied as a limit only to the benefit any Servant may take from the Fund, the refund of excess subscriptions above that proportion ought not to stand as part of any permanent rule of the institution taken. And your memoralists will ever pray,-Calcutta That your memorialists very gratefully acknowledge the consideration and attention of your Right Hon'ble Board, in having in a letter, dated the 17th October, 1836, through your Secretary, to the address of the Hon'ble Sir Edward Ryan, Chief Justice of Fort William in Bengal, who signed the memorial on their behalf, acknowledged the receipt of the memorial, and declared that the subject should receive that consideration to which its great importance and the high respectability of the parties subscribing it were fairly entitled. the alternatives proposed in the 5th Resolution of the THE RESPECTFUL MEMORIAL, &c. SHEWETH,-That your memorialists, under date 5th March, one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-six, adThat your memorialists, sensible of the advantages dressed a memorial to your Right Hon'ble Board, pray-derivable from the establishment of a frequent expeditious ing that certain resolutions of the Select Committee of and regular Steam Communicatan limited to Bombay, the Commons, which sat in July, 1834, recommending adopted as it has been by the President of your Right the immediate establishment of a Steam Communication Hon'ble Board," in order to prevent delay in the com. with India by the Red Sea, might be forthwith fully mencement of so useful an enterprize, desire to express acted upon; and that steps might be immediately taken their gratitude to your Right Hon'ble Board for the es in conjunction with the Hon'ble the Court of Directors tablishment of such a communication; but your memo of the East India Company, to establish a regular Steam rialists respectfully submit, that the advantages deriva Communication between the principal India Ports and ble from such limited communication, are in reality of little importance, when considered with reference to those which must result from extending it to the other presidencies: whether in regard to the intrinsic advan tages themselves, or to the respective costs at which each is attainable. the Read Sea. That since the date of the above memorial, your morialists understand from a statement made by the President of your Right Hon'ble Board to the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed in June last, to enquite into the best means of establishing a communication by steam with India by way of the Read Sea, that the Hon'ble Court have concluded an arrangement with Her Majesty's Government for the establishment of a monthly steam communication be tween Great Britain and India by way of the Red Sea, the communication being limited to Bombay; which arrangement was considered by the President of your to enquire into the best means of establishing a com Right Hon'ble Board as in effect conforming to one of munication by steam with India by way of the Red That your memorialists have the less hesitation in pressing upon the consideration of your Right Hon'ble Board the expediency of the immediate extension of the communication to the other presidencies in cosequence of perceiveing, from the statement rendered by the President of your Right Hon'ble Board to the Select Comme-mittee of the Hon'ble the House of Commons, that the Hon'ble the Court of Directors have reserved the ques tion of such extension for consideration after trial has been fairly made of the limited communication, and have further recommended to the Right Hon'ble the Governor-General to send either the Atalanta or Berenice round from Calcutta to Madras, thence to Ceylon and thence to Socotra and up the Read Sea, with a view to ascertain practically what objection there may be to that route; and because the select Committee of the House of Commons which was appointed in June Sea, to whom this purpose of establishing the communi- had in the South west monsoon in the Arabian Sea to That referring to the declared opinion of the Select Committee of the House of Commons to the effect that the more extended system of communication is perfectly compatible with the arrangement in progress for the limited communication to Bombay, your memorialists would observe that this compatibility could be much more easily and advantageously applied, if the arrange. ments for the whole measure were in progress simultaneously, than if those for the extension are left out of consideration in the arrangements for the limited communication; because it may be found that arrangements sufficient for the latter may not be so for the former, That your memorialists regard this reservation on the part of the Hon'ble Court of the consideration of the ulterior extension of the communication to the three presidencies, and the recommendation to the Right Hon'ble the Governor-General, to cause an experimental voyage to be made from Calcutta, as a recognition, by the Hon'ble Court, of the superiority of the extended over the limited communication; and the President of your Right Honorable Board having expressly declared his opinion in favor of such extended communication, your memorialists therefore deem it to be the less necessary to dwell on that superiority. They would, however, briefly state, that under the restriction to Bombay the whence it might be necessary, at some sacrifice to readvantages of the communication to the rest of India, model the establishment prepared for the limited combeyond the more speedy conveyance of correspondence, munication. and that limited as to size, are of little value, from Calcutta, between which place and Europe by far the That your memorialists observe from the evidence of most extended intercourse obtains. Passengers can Mr. Peacock, before the Select Committee of the House never be sure of reaching Bombay in time for the steam- of Commons, that the overland postage of the letters er; and your memorialists would respectfully observe, that it is chiefly from mutual personal intercourse that sent from all other parts of India to Bombay for steam the benefits and advantages contemplated by the Hon'ble Conveyance is considered as an indemnity to the East India Company towards re-imbursement of one-half of Court of Directors in their despatch to the Government the charge of conveyance of the mails between Alexandria of Bombay under date the 14th March, 1834, must and Bombay. spring. That, as regards the intercommunication between the That the individuals residing in Calcutta and its neighHome Authorities and the Presidencies on the eastern bourhood send and receive very nearly one-third of the side of India, and especially the Supreme Government, whole number of letters that pass between England and the confinement of the communication to Bombay, must India, notwithstanding which if it were impracticable to limit the correspondence to short letters consisting mere- distribute letters from England by steam vessels by any ly of general heads of information on the one hand and other means than through Bombay, of course your instructions on the other; while by the establishment of memorialists could not complain of the necessary charge a monthly steam communication with the three presi- for the conveyance of their letters between Calcutta and dencies, the minutest details of the several Governments, that place; but when the British Legislature, with recorded in the proceedings of the Governments, as well characteristic liberality in cases of transmission of coras in those of the several boards, could be conveyed respondence, has limited the postage of a single letter Home monthly as they occurred, within 60 days of their to 1s. from the Red Sea to a any port in the East transmission from India; thus furnishing the ruling "Indies", your memorialists do consider it to be unreasona authorities at home with a regular connected series of ble and unfair that they should be compelled to contrifully detailed perfect information of all proceedings bute to the means of transmission to Bombay only, by throughout all India, in accordance with the grand desi- an additional payment of fifteen annas or 1s 94d.; that deratum as declared by Mr. Peacock, in his evidence the inhabitants of Madras and its neighbourhood are in before the select committee of the House of Commons; like manner subject to this unreasonable impost in the viz. "In time of war expeditious communication is reduced amount of the overland postage to that place. adviseable; in time of peace regularity is the thing In fact your memorialists submit that by the restriction and perfect knowledge when we have it; if we have a to Bombay the intended liberality of the legislature of regular communication and imperfect knowledge occa- Great Britain and the consequent advantage of the sional expedition will not make up for it." multiplication of correspondence is shut out from the inhabitants of Calcutta and Madras and from others residing within two or three days dawk distances, involv ing, your memorialists venture to assume, nearly if not quite the half in number of all the letters dispatched trom India. That your memorialists refrain from enlarging further on the obvious incalculable mutual advantages which must arise to the two countries by approximation in the most ample form of which it is capable; and rather address themselves to urging on your Right Hon'ble Board to concur with the Hon'ble the Court of Directors in the immediate establishment of the communication to the three presidencies on the most enlarged and liberal scale; worthy at once of the two countries, and of the prospects of real good, which such a communication, so established, hold out not merely to India but to the whole of Eastern Asia. That such unreasonable and unfair impost necessarily must continue until the communication is extended ac cording to the prayer of your memorialists, and your memorialists ventured to hope that even under this view alone your Right Hon'ble Board will see the expediency and justice of at once extending the communication to the three presidencies, especially when, in addition to the above heavy tax on their correspondence, your memori That it appears to your memorialists that no experialists as well as the inhabitants of Madras and its neighmental voyage can be necessary to establish the practi-bourhood, are unable to despatch by the regular dawk cability of the communication being carried on monthly to Bombay for conveyance to England by a steamer at terms, resolves itself into a simple calculation, whether If indeed your Hon'ble Court derermine to restrict the refunds to the more fortunate Servants whose sub- the number of annuities permanently to six per annum scriptions exceed the quarter value,are likely to equal, fall or two-thirds of the original number, the values of the short, or exceed the fines to be required from others to remaining three may be applied to the refund of excess make good that proportion, subscriptions; but if the whole income be applied to 135,592-10-2 The result of the experimen- granting annuities, there will be no source from which 18,060-13-5 tal rule to the present date has to supply this outlay. shown an excess of fines 1,17,532 0 0 above refunds amounting to 1,17,532 Co's. Rs. Fines, Your memorialists therefore beg submissively to solicit from your Hon'ble Court, not that the rule as passed by the Service may be allowed to stand, under which only six annuities can be granted annually on the terms of quarter payment with refund of excess of But your memorialists are not prepared to draw from this circumstance the conclusion, that the subscriptions of retiring members will ordinarily fall short of that subscriptions, but that you will permit the Fund to grant proportion, more especially when the Fund shall annuities not exceeding nine in number to the extent of have been of that duration, that servants will ordina- the annual fixed income of the Fund from subscriptions, rily have subscribers for the whole period of their service. your donation, and interest on the fixed capital, unAlthough therefore your memorialists are convinced der the condition of requiring retiring Servants to that the Fund may safely grant annuities to the extent make good to the extent of a quarter of the value of of its fixed income on the terms of requiring no further their annuities; but receiving no refund of any excess payment in the way of fine from retiring Servants, and in the amount of their subscriptsons, in case these should the necessity of making good, a quarter value may fitly and advantageously be applied as a limit only to the bene- at the time of retirement with interest exceed the annuies fit any Servant may take from the Fund, the refund of excess subscriptions above that proportion ought not to stand as part of any permanent rule of the institution taken. The following draft of a memorial to the Board of Cantrol intended to be proposed at the public meeting on Thrusday morning next, is published for general in formation: STEAM MEMORIA L, &c THE RESPECTFUL MEMORIAL, &c. SHEWETH,-That your memorialists, under date 5th March, one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-six, addressed a memorial to your Right Hon'ble Board, praying that certain resolutions of the Select Committee of the Commons, which sat in July, 1834, recommending the immediate establishment of a Steam Communication with India by the Red Sea, might be forthwith fully acted upon; and that steps might be immediately taken in conjunction with the Hon'ble the Court of Directors of the East India Company, to establish a regular Steam Communication between the principal India Ports and the Read Sea. And your memoralists will ever pray,-Calcutta Courier, Jan. 3. That your memorialists very gratefully acknowledge the consideration and attention of your Right Hon'ble Board, in having in a letter, dated the 17th October, 1836, through your Secretary, to the address of the Hon'ble Sir Edward Ryan, Chief Justice of Fort William in Bengal, who signed the memorial on their behalf, acknowledged the receipt of the memorial, and declared that the subject should receive that consideration to which its great importance and the high respectability of the parties subscribing it were fairly entitled. the alternatives proposed in the 5th Resolution of the Select Committee of the House of Commons in 1834, which left to the joint consideration of the Home Go vernment and East India Company "whether the communication should be in the first instance from Bombay, from Calcutta, or according to the combined plan of the Bengal Steam Committee." That your memorialists, sensible of the advantages derivable from the establishment of a frequent expeditious and regular Steam Communicatan limited to Bombay, adopted as it has been by the President of your Right Hon'ble Board," in order to prevent delay in the com mencement of so useful an enterprize, desire to express their gratitude to your Right Hon'ble Board for the establishment of such a communication; but your memo. rialists respectfully submit, that the advantages derivable from such limited communication, are in reality of little importance, when considered with reference to those which must result from extending it to the other presidencies: whether in regard to the intrinsic advantages themselves, or to the respective costs at which each is attainable. That your memorialists have the less hesitation in pressing upon the consideration of your Right Hon'ble Board the expediency of the immediate extension of the communication to the other presidencies in cosequence of perceiveing, from the statement rendered by the President of your Right Hon'ble Board to the Select Comme-mittee of the Hon'ble the House of Commons, that the Hon'ble the Court of Directors have reserved the question of such extension for consideration after trial has been fairly made of the limited communication, and have further recommended to the Right Hon'ble the Governor-General to send either the Atalanta or Berenice round from Calcutta to Madras, thence to Ceylon and thence to Socotra and up the Read Sea, with a view to ascertain practically what objection there may be to that route; and because the select Committee of the That since the date of the above memorial, your morialists understand from a statement made by the President of your Right Hon'ble Board to the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed in June last, to enquite into the best means of establishing a communication by steam with India by way of the Read Sea, that the Hon'ble Court have concluded an arrangement with Her Majesty's Government for the establishment of a monthly steam communication be tween Great Britain and India by way of the Red Sea, the communication being limited to Bombay; which House of Commons which was appointed in June arrangement was considered by the President of your to enquire into the best means of establishing a com Sea, to whom this purpose of establishing the communi- | had in the South west monsoon in the Arabian Sea to cation to Bombay alone was known, recommended, ex-such a course being taken as circumstances may render pressly with reference to such extension, a continued necessary; that in fact there is no part of the world and zealous attention to the subject on the part of Her where steam navigation can be so regularly and secure. Majesty's Government and the East India Company; ly carried on as in India, where from the regularity with which extension, moreover, appeared to the Committee which the winds blow, a steamer can take a position to perfectly compatible with the arrangements in progress windward of her intended port without fear in the intertowards the limited communication. mediate time of a change of wind. That your memorialists regard this reservation on the part of the Hon'ble Court of the consideration of the ulterior extension of the communication to the three presidencies, and the recommendation to the Right Hon'ble the Governor-General, to cause an experimental voyage to be made from Calcutta, as a recognition, by the Hon'ble Court, of the superiority of the extended over the limited communication; and the President of your Right Honorable Board having expressly declared his opinion in favor of such extended communication, your memorialists therefore deem it to be the less necessary to dwell on that superiority. They would, however, briefly state, that under the restriction to Bombay the advantages of the communication to the rest of India, beyond the more speedy conveyance of correspondence, and that limited as to size, are of little value, from Calcutta, between which place and Europe by far the most extended intercourse obtains. Passengers can Mr. Peacock, before the Select Committee of the House That your memorialists observe from the evidence of never be sure of reaching Bombay in time for the steamer; and your memorialists would respectfully observe, of Commons, that the overland postage of the letters that it is chiefly from mutual personal intercourse that sent from all other parts of India to Bombay for steam the benefits and advantages contemplated by the Hon'ble conveyance is considered as an indemnity to the East Court of Directors in their despatch to the Government India Company towards re-imbursement of one-half of of Bombay under date the 14th March, 1834, must the charge of conveyance of the mails between Alexandria and Bombay. spring. Committee of the House of Commons to the effect that That referring to the declared opinion of the Select the more extended system of communication is perfectly compatible with the arrangement in progress for the limited communication to Bombay, your memorialists would observe that this compatibility could be much ments for the whole measure were in progress simultanemore easily and advantageously applied, if the arrange. ously, than if those for the extension are left out of consideration in the arrangements for the limited communication; because it may be found that arrangements sufficient for the latter may not be so for the former, whence it might be necessary, at some sacrifice to remodel the establishment prepared for the limited communication. That, as regards the intercommunication between the That the individuals residing in Calcutta and its neighHome Authorities and the Presidencies on the eastern bourhood send and receive very nearly one-third of the side of India, and especially the Supreme Government, whole number of letters that pass between England and the confinement of the communication to Bombay, must India, notwithstanding which if it were impracticable to limit the correspondence to short letters consisting mere- distribute letters from England by steam vessels by any ly of general heads of information on the one hand and other means than through Bombay, of course your instructions on the other; while by the establishment of memorialists could not complain of the necessary charge a monthly steam communication with the three presi- for the conveyance of their letters between Calcutta and dencies, the minutest details of the several Governments, that place; but when the British Legislature, with recorded in the proceedings of the Governments, as well characteristic liberality in cases of transmission of coras in those of the several boards, could be conveyed respondence, has limited the postage of a single letter Home monthly as they occurred, within 60 days of their to 1s. from the Red Sea to transmission from India; thus furnishing the ruling "Indies",your memorialists do consider it to be unreasona a any port in the East authorities at home with a regular connected series of ble and unfair that they should be compelled to contrifully detailed perfect information of all proceedings bute to the means of transmission to Bombay only, by throughout all India, in accordance with the grand desi- an additional payment of fifteen annas or 1s 94d.; that deratum as declared by Mr. Peacock, in his evidence the inhabitants of Madras and its neighbourhood are in before the select committee of the House of Commons; like manner subject to this unreasonable impost in the viz." In time of war expeditious communication is reduced amount of the overland postage to that place. adviseable; in time of peace regularity is the thing In fact your memorialists submit that by the restriction and perfect knowledge when we have it; if we have a to Bombay the intended liberality of the legislature of regular communication and imperfect knowledge occa- Great Britain and the consequent advantage of the sional expedition will not make up for it." multiplication of correspondence is shut out from the inhabitants of Calcutta and Madras and from others residing within two or three days dawk distances, involving, your memorialists venture to assume, nearly if not quite the half in number of all the letters dispatched from India. That your memorialists refrain from enlarging further on the obvious incalculable mutual advantages which must arise to the two countries by approximation in the most ample form of which it is capable; and rather address themselves to urging on your Right Hon'ble Board to concur with the Hon'ble the Court of Directors in the immediate establishment of the communication to the three presidencies on the most enlarged and liberal scale; worthy at once of the two countries, and of the prospects of real good, which such a communication, so established, hold out not merely to India but to the whole of Eastern Asia. must continue until the communication is extended ac That such unreasonable and unfair impost necessarily cording to the prayer of your memorialists, and your memorialists ventured to hope that even under this view alone your Right Hon'ble Board will see the expediency and justice of at once extending the communication to the three presidencies, especially when, in addition to the above heavy tax on their correspondence, your memori That it appears to your memorialists that no experialists as well as the inhabitants of Madras and its neighmental voyage can be necessary to establish the practi- bourhood, are unable to despatch by the regular dawk cability of the communication being carried on monthly to Bombay for conveyance to England by a steamer at be, any document exceeding 12 tollas or 4oz. 10dwt. in weight; nor by dawk bangy any parcel of greater weight than 600 tollas or 10lbs. 2oz. by which latter conveyance the time occupied between Calcutta and Bombay will be nearly doubled; the time by the regular dawk in the N, E. monsoon, when laden with the steam mail being thirteen days, while in the S. W. monsoon it is estimated it will take 15 or 16 days. That your memorialists firmly believe that until such extended communication, as that now prayed for, is established an almost universal dissatisfaction will prevail throughout India especially as Her Majesty's ministers have, through the Lords of Treasury and the particular ministerial authority for the affairs of India, the Presi dent of your Right Hon'ble Board, expressly declared their unqualified concurrence in the now repeated anxious wish and desire of your memorialists and of India generally; while the evidence lately taken before the Select Committee of the House of Commons, cannot fail still further to satisfy your memorialists, and the people of India in general, of the justice, sound policy, and expediency of at once establishing a regular and expeditious steam communication between England and the several presidencies on a scale adequate to the growing wants of India in her relations with Great Britain, various individuals in this country, with a promptitude and industry which would seem rather disproportioned to the object, even if the resolution had been the result of full and impartial investigation, instead of being founded upon exparte views and heated feelings.. That your memorialists therefore most earnestly and respectfully pray that your Right Hon'ble Board will, in cenjunction with the Hon'ble the Court of Directors, forthwith establish such a steam communication between England and India as may give.public satisfaction and fulfil, what has been admitted by the highest authority connected with the government of British India to be the "just expectations of the people both of England and of India." N. B. the memerial to the Court of Directors is the same mutatis mutandis and with the omission of the second paragraph.- Hurkaru, January 3. to convey. That the infliction might be rendered as galling as possible, it is somewhat ostentatiously announced in No opportunity of defence or exculpation is allowed me. The first official intimation that I receive of the existence of a charge against me, is the transmission of I cannot reconcile this my conviction and senteuce. review it will appear even to those who have been parties to any principle of fairness, and I am sure that upon to the proceeding, that I have been hastily dealt with, Returning to the question, whether or not I have advocated the extended plan, from the discussion of which I have been led by the extraordinary course of proceeding adopted. I beg to submit that I have been the constant, determined, and unwavering supporter of that plan, from a period antecedent to my connection with the Calcutta committee, and that I have devoted all the mental and physical energy which I possess to promote its success. It has been the object to which all my labours have tended, and from which my atten tion has never been for a moment withdrawn. For evidence of this I may refer to almost innumerable passages of my correspondence, and to the testimony of all persons in this country who have had the means of observation. I am so much at a loss to conceive the grounds upon which is rested the assumption, that I that I am scarcely in a condition to meet the charge in have not advocated the extended plan of communication, any other way than by a plain denial. Of the extent and persevering consistency of my advocacy, the subscribers generally have not the same means of judging as those who have been more immediately Much that could not be conveniently introduced into concerned in the management of the correspondence. public letters, has been adverted to in private communi. cations; and when I am attacked for neglecting that object which I have incessantly laboured to promote, I must rely upon the justice of those who are better informed, to give me the assistance of their good report. CAPTAIN GRINDLAY'S EXPLANATIONS. To C. B. GREENLaw, Esq. I have understood indeed that exception was taken to a small part of the pamphlet which created so considerable a sensation where none was felt before, and the pub 1 Secretary to the New Bengal Steam Fund. SIR,-I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated 1st May, 1837, enclosing a resolution passed by the committee of Calcutta at a meeting held on that day.lication of which I sincerely believe was a most influenAs I trust that by this time my constituents in Calcutta ial movement towards the end for which we were striving. entertain a feeling with regard to my labours very differ. I have heard that it has been imputed to me as a direlicent from that which is expressed in the resolution which tion of duty, that I did not in that Pamphlet insist upon you have transmitted, I might perhaps be justified in the extended plan or none at all. My answer is that the abstaining from any comment upon it, and trusting to the entire tendency of the Pamphlet is to give an impression slow, but generally certain effect of time to secure me that the extended plan is not alone the most eligible, but that it is that which must ultimately be adopted. These justice. are the views pervading the pamphlet, while in the appendix of documents the reader is conducted at once to the same conclusions in a more direct manner. This Course was adopted neither from coldness, nor from indolence, nor from carelessness. It was the result of deliberate consideration, and time has but convinced me more and more of its propriety. The pamphlet did not ex. pound all the views which I entertained on the subject nor all which I was anxious to communicate. It was but the commencement of a series of labours to draw attention to the subject, to awaken the public mind and gra dually to inform it. I never professed my object to be different from what I now state it to have beeu. In my letter of the 24th December last, which accompanied the pamphlet I spoke of it as intended to " prepare the public mind for further measures," and this is the language which I have invariably held. It is as The adoption of this course, however, might not be free from the appearance of disrespect, and for this reason think it necessary to make a few explanatory remarks. In the first place I must observe, that the resolution is based upon an assumption that is incorrect. sumed that I bave not advocated the extended plan of steam communication, and for this imaginary neglect the penalty of the disapprobation of my constituents is to be inflicted. I cannot but regret, and not less on account of those who passed the resolution than of him who is the object of it, that a little more attention was not previously given to the whole tenor and course of my proceedings, and also that the great principle of justice was not adhered to, which requires that a man should be heard before he is condemned. Without af. fording me an opportunity of explaining such parts of my conduct as my constituents might deem to stand in need of explanation, I receive the most painful expression of disapprobation which it was in their power But why did I not take other ground and desire at once the establishment of the extended plan? Because Such conduct would have been the height of imprudence. Authority was against us, some of the advocates of |