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LETTERS, TRACTS, ^W 321matter and manner of their teaching.that an academy isIf they believeto be ere6led, they will be forcedto alter many things ; if there is great probability thatyour plan fliall foon take place, that will overcometheir greateft obilinacy ; if a royal vifitation can beobtained, that will fet all on a right footing. Seufiblemen will form an ufeful plan of teaching, and theprofeflbrs will be. tied down to obferve it. If thecrown appoint fa6lors to uplift and manage the collegerevenues, all occafion of wrangling will be removed; the mafters will live in harmony, and willhave leifure to mind their proper bufmefs : They v/illbe freed from much obloquy ; and thofe parts of thecountry from which they have hitherto raifed theirrevenues will be refcued from much real or imaginedoppreffion. What I wiih for moil of all in this matter,"for the fake of the public and my own children,is to fee an academy prefently eretled ; my next wifhis,that the univerfity v/ould wifely, of their own accord,make the neceffary and delired alterations intheir teacliing. If neither of thefe is done, I wifh tofee a royal vifitation as foon as poiltble. It is aboutforLy years fmce there v/as one, and it could not bemore needed at that time than it is now. If it isaikcd in a decent and refpeiliul manner, withoutfhov/ing any ill humour, or throwing out any perfonalrefledlions, a thing fo beneficial to the country,and that puts the government to no expcnce, wouldcertainlybe granted.Shall the univerfity, content with the old mannei:of teaching, apply to parliament to have burfaries alteredfrom the original deftination of the founder, foas to fuit their prcfent interell or particular views,and meet with fuccefs ? Shall this city petition to beindemnified for its lofies, and to have its revenues increafedand extended, and fucceed alfo ? And arethere none who will apply to the king and privycouncilfor that which would advance the intcreitj.