which, though out of its turn, the account is thus taken up, and set at the head of the articles consigned to this Appendix. May the 9th, 1812, is the day assigned, to the meeting recorded in this first recorded document. The document which thus stands first recorded, is it the document of the earliest date? Oh no: for of that which stands next recorded, and of which the mention is thus postponed to the mention of it, viz. No. II. p. 25, the "Address to the Public," (it is the Address calling for Contributions,) the date is more than three months earlier-viz. " 29th January," in that same year," 1812."

More than this, in that same first recorded document, intituled Report of the Sub-Committee for Building, immediately after mention of the Members present as above, "The Building Committee" (continues this Report, p. 23,) "having met the 26th " of December, 1811, in consequence of instruc"tions from the General Committee, proceeded "to enquire for a proper place wherein to establish "a Central School." Here then is evidence of an anterior meeting-a meeting held on this same subject-held on a day more than four months anterior to that of this first regularly recorded meeting; and even more than a month anterior to the date of that Address, the record of which is postponed to the record of it: and that too a meeting, as it should seem-though perhaps not-of this same Committee: but at any rate, a meeting, the

proceedings of which, for some reason or other were not thought meet to be had in any more particular remembrance.

O yes:-perhaps the same; perhaps not-for here comes another quere; the assembly mentioned in the title to this No. I. p. 23, under the name of "the Sub-Committee for Building," and the assembly in line eighth of that same page mentioned under the name of the Building Committee, are they after all the same Committee? or-to speak more particularly, and thence more plainly—the persons who were appointed members of it, and moreover the persons who in virtue of that appointment met and acted,-were they, at both times, or in no one, or in one only, and which of those two times, these same persons?

In the body of the Report, it is in a paragraph contained in pages 14 and 15, and not in any other place, that mention is made of this Sub-Committee, or say of these Sub-Committees. Look to that place for elucidations,-and, instead of the elucidations sought, what as usual you will find is-darkness visible.

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"The Committee (page 14,) at its first meeting appointed a Sub-Committee, to take mea"sures for establishing a Central School in the Metropolis... At the next meeting".. . "The "Sub-Committee. . . was renewed, and instructed "to find out, &c. . . . which business was entered upon and brought to a conclusion without delay,

" as will be seen in the report of their proceedings "under the sanction of the general Committee, "printed in the App. No. I."-viz. the so often mentioned Report of May 9, 1812.

This same "first meeting"-on what day was it held?—Answer.—If on any day, on some day posterior to October 21st, 1811, and anterior to 26th December, in that same year, 1811:-posterior to the day in October; that being the day on which, according to p. 13, the" Society was formed:" anterior to the day in December; that being the day, on which, under the name of the Building Committee, a Building Committee, nominated according to p. 14, either at that same first meeting, or at the next to it, is in No. I. p. 23, "Report of the Sub"Committee for Building," stated to have met.

That same "next meeting"-on what day was it held ?—Answer.—If on any day, on some day posterior to that, on which the "first" of these same two meetings was held: as also anterior to that same day of December, viz. the 26th: sure it was at that same meeting of the General Committee, that the Sub-Committee," by which instructions were thereupon " at the same time" received, "was," as above, "renewed:" always supposing that the Sub-Committee, which on that same 26th of December, co-operated as above, was the same Committee, which on that same nameless day of the General Committee's said "next meeting" was so renewed and instructed" as aforesaid.

These are all the data: and from these data, let the Chronologer, whose skill in Chronology is adequate to such an enterprize, and who at the same time wants employment, fix the date.

Concluding problem. Of the disorder that has been seen, required to find, what part, if any, has been the result of artifice,-what part, if any, the result of incapacity. To this problem all along has a solution been sought :-sought-sincerely and diligently sought :-yet still, in conclusion-such is the darkness with which the face of this deep is covered-must it be left unsolved. By a peep into the books of this self-styled Committee-if indeed any such books have been kept-the solution, or at any rate an approximation towards it, might probably be effected. But these books are in the custody-nominally, of the Reverend Secretary; effectively, of the most Reverend President. Enquire of them-(but, to the power, who is there that adds the inclination, necessary to the making any such enquiry with effect?) enquire of them, the answer will be either that the voracity of some profane rat has taken an unhappy direction to these sacred muniments,—or that,-in virtue of one of those inscrutable decrees of an all-directing providence, the aid of which is never wanting to orthodox divines at a dead lift, fire from heaven has come down, and consumed into a burnt sacrifice these offerings of Church-of-England devotion :consumed them, as of old, in token of accept

ance, on the very altars on which they have been offered.

§ XII. General Committee.-Fraud involved in the title thus given to the Managing body.

Of whatever in the course of this discussion there has been occasion to say of the Governing body, one source of perplexity has been a perpetual accompaniment :-this is the impossibility of giving to it, without joining in a system of misrepresentation, the style and title given to it throughout the whole course of these Reports:-viz. the General Committee. By the word Committee, in every instance, is, or ought to be, meant to be designated a subordinate assemblage of the members of the artificial body in question,-to which assemblage, on some particular occasion, a particular portion of the business is, by the whole body committed, i. e. entrusted entrusted-viz. for the purpose of exercising some preparatory function.

A Committee is a relative term: and, though as in the case of a trustee, and so many others, the current language, (such is its imperfection,) has not, in the compass of a single word, afforded to it its correlative, yet to the existence of the object thus designated, the existence of a correlative object is not in this instance less undeniably necessary, than in the case of father and son, or that of grantor and