for the President's Speeches, I thought it right to inquire into the nature of this item.

Happening to be on the Council the next year, I took an opportunity, at an early meeting of that Council, to ask publicly for an explanation of the following resolution, which stands in the Council-books for Dec.

21, 1828.
"Resolved, That 500 copies of the President's Discourses, about to be printed by Mr.Murray, be purchased by the Society, at the usual trade price." The answer given to that question was, "THAT THE COUNCIL HAD AGREED TO PURCHASE THESE VOLUMES AT THAT PRICE, IN ORDER TO INDUCE MR.

MURRAY TO PRINT THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECHES." I remarked at the time that such an answer was quite unsatisfactory, as the following statement will prove.
The volume consists of 160 pages, or twenty sheets, and the following prices are very liberal: L s.

d.
To composing and printing twenty sheets, at 3L.