as to approve it & I believe recommended it to Lord Hillsboro : Your Letter however is what I place all my hope on of having any attention paid to this Scheme by Government; altho I thought it my Duty to write the Society that they would join in urging this Business; particularly the Lord Bishop of Oxford, who has lately favoured me with a Letter, & to whom I have communicated largely my Sentiments on this subject. God Grant that the Steps taken may be attended with success. There are few earthly objects that would give me more sincere Pleasure.

Dt Cooper is saild. He was very thankful for the friendly notice you took of him in your Letter to Lord Hillsborough, & desired to be affectionately remembered to you. He was on the point of embarking when Sir John & Col. Johnson came to Town, & I have been so constantly employed in assisting to prepare addresses to go by him from the Clergy & the College, & in moving to the College, that I have been deprived much more of the Pleasure of their Company than I would Chuse. Indeed their Friends were so glad to see them, after so long an Absence, that they were almost continually out, & I could only spend a Couple of Evenings with them. There is an affair relative to Kirtland, the Indian Missionary, which I have mentioned to Col. Johnson to be communicated to you, not thinking it safe to commit it to writing. You are the only Person that can accomplish it, and it requires much Delicacy.