been published? We have been inundated with Greek plays, but we have had no Greek orators, no Greek historians, no Greek philosophers. Disprove this, if you can, and then say that my remarks have not "the pretence or shadow of justification." You sneer, Sir, at my supposed ignorance of monostrophics, as you before did at my supposed ignorance of mathematics. Sir, do not take toa much for granted. Whether I know much or little on that subject, I will not tell you now, but I am amused with your conjectures as to my ignorance, and think I can trace, from some of your expres sions in the present instance, the origin of your hostility. You evidently suppose me connected with the Edinburgh Review; I smile at your conjecture, and I leave you to make the most you can of an avowed false quantity in my title-page, by way of confirming it.

You, perhaps, think you have a fine opportunity of vanquishing a critical opponent, and by the eagerness with which you have lugged in Mr. Brougham and the Edin. Rev., both into the body of your pamphlet, and the appendix, you perhaps would wish to be esteemed the author of a certain article on Mr. Brougham's Education System, which appeared in the Quarterly Review, and which, if it was wholly written by you, is, I think, the best thing you ever wrote.

Without some motive of this kind, I can hardly account for the violence and wantonness of your attack; unless you really believed Eubulus to be some tame and contemptible scribbler, whom you might put down as easily as an unfortunate freshman who has missed your lectures; in the one case, I pity your want of tact, in the other your want of generosity. Before I take my leave of you, I must observe, that if I had been attacked by a direct antagonist of the plan we both wish, in the main, to see carried into effect, I should probably not have replied; but in the present case, when I am aggrieved by one of my own party, I feel it necessary to vindicate myself by an explanation of my meaning in some instances, a disavowal of the construction put upon my words in others, and an exposure of the unfair misrepresentation of them in still more. My whole pamphlet was written in temperate and respectful language, with feelings of great goodwill to all parties, with honest intentions and earnest zeal for the welfare of the University, and the best interests of those who are educated in it. What can be your motives for attacking it, unless those I have assigned, I cannot guess. You well know how much mankind love to be saved the trouble of thinking for themselves, and cannot doubt but that those who have not yet read my pamphlet, will be content to take your description of it, without forming an opinion for themselves. It is with a view of counteracting the effect of your remarks, that I have written the

foregoing pages, in which I have confined myself strictly to the defensive, without attempting to retaliate, by criticising your pamphlet in return. Men are apt to think favorably enough of themselves, and you may, perhaps, imagine that you are invulnerable in that part, where I have not inflicted a wound. You may think so, if you like, for the opinion is harmless, and is to me a matter of the most perfect indifference. I have already declared the reasons for my conduct in this respect, and whether they satisfy you or not, it is enough, and perhaps quite as well for you, that they satisfy me.

A CHARGE,

&c. &c.

I AM convinced, my reverend brethren, that, when you engaged in the work of the ministry, you engaged in it with a just sense of the weighty obligations which it would impose on you. You felt that you were enrolling yourselves under the banners, not of a triumphant, but of a militant church; of a church, which is exposed to continual danger from the attacks of watchful and indefatigable enemies; and which cannot, therefore, allow even a momentary relaxation of vigilance and zeal on the part of its defenders. Persuaded that the office, to which you were called, was one, not of inactivity and ease, but of unremitting exertion and anxiety, you determined thenceforward to devote every energy of body and of mind to the faithful discharge of your professional duties.

Such, I am convinced, were the feelings and resolutions by which you were animated when you entered upon the work of the ministry; feelings and resolutions, which your subsequent experience must have tended to confirm and strengthen. If I thus advert to them, it is not because I suspect your bosoms to be strangers to their influence; but because I think that, if there were ever a time when the circumstances of the church peculiarly required that such principles should actuate the conduct of its ministers, that time is the present. I am not insensible to the existence of a disposition in the minds of men to exaggerate the magnitude of the transactions in which they are themselves engaged, and to imagine that no age of the world has produced events of equal mo