And are these really, Sir, the lowest terms upon which the benefit of your name can be obtained for the British and Foreign Bible Society? If they are, I must fairly own, humiliating as the confession may appear, I have no hope of hearing that the Secretary has been called upon “to insert your name and accept your donation.” {14b} No Sir; his Lordship cannot go such lengths as you require. I dare say he would do every thing in his power to satisfy you; but I think I may venture to say, without consulting him, that this exceeds his power. His Lordship is a student of human nature, and the situations which he has filled, have afforded him opportunities of pursuing his favorite study. How he has employed those opportunities, and what fruit he has derived from them, I need not tell you. I dare say you have not lost your respect for the biographer of Sir William Jones, in your resentment against the President of the Bible Society. But, with all his powers of discrimination, his Lordship has his limits as well as _other_ men; and I hope you would not wish him to vouch _for_ or _against_ a large class of individuals, as you may have found some people inclined to do, merely on account of certain peculiar specimens which he has seen, or some indistinct reports which he has heard. But surely, Sir, I may be excused for doubting whether you “be in jest or earnest,” {15} when you meet his Lordship’s proposition with such exorbitant demands. Did you ever know a President who could engage for quite so much as you require? Or did you ever see “six hundred” names together, that stood for nothing less than so many “honorable and upright men?” I am sure I venerate every useful Society throughout the kingdom, from the Society for _promoting Christian Knowledge_, down to the Society for _superseding the Necessity of Climbing Boys_; and yet I should not be surprised if their respective Presidents should decline bearing their testimony to the individual characters of the first _six hundred_ members of those several Societies upon which I might choose to lay my hand. Besides, Sir, consider—a rule for _one_, in such a case is a rule for _all_. What you require _before_ you subscribe your name, others may think themselves justified in requiring _after_ you have subscribed it. And what will be the consequence?—His Lordship will next be called upon to pledge himself for _you_; and though I dare say he could do it with perfect safety, yet I think he might have reasons for wishing to be excused.