On receiving your reply notices will be issued accordingly. B. P. YATES H. W. DENNIS D. B. WARNER URIAS A. MCGILL SAML. F. MCGILL H. A. JOHNSON B. V. R. JAMES EDW. W. BLYDEN SAML. MATTHEWS Residence of the United States Consular Agent, Monrovia, July 13th, 1859 GENTLEMEN--Your note of to-day has been received, for the honor of which I thank you, and beg to say that numerous engagements prevent me from complying with your request on to-morrow evening. You are mistaken, gentlemen, in supposing that I have ever spoken directly 'against Liberia,' as wherever I have been I have always acknowledged a unity of interests in our race wherever located; and any seeming opposition to Liberia could only be constructively such, for which I am not responsible. Should it be your pleasure, I will do myself the honor serving you on Monday evening next, or any other evening during the week, by a discourse on the 'Political Destiny of the African Race,' and assure you of the pleasure with which I have the honor to be, Your most obedient servant, M. R. DELANY Col. B. P. Yates; Hon. D. B. Warner; S. F. McGill, M.D.; Hon. B. V. R. James; Rev. Saml. Matthews; Urias McGill, Esq.; Rev. Edw. W. Blyden; H. W. Dennis, Esq.; H. A. Johnson, Esq., District Attorney. * * * * * M. R. Delany, Esq.: Monrovia, July 14, 1859 SIR--We have the honor to acknowledge your note of to-day in reply to an invitation of yesterday from us requesting that you would favor us, with many others, with an address on to-morrow evening, or at any other time agreeable to yourself. Having signified to us that next Monday evening you would be pleased to comply with the request, we tender you our thanks and will be happy to listen to a discourse on the 'Political destiny of the African Race.' We have the honor to be, very respectfully, &c., yours, B. V. R. JAMES SAML. MATTHEWS And others Reception On Monday evening, the 19th of July, having addressed a crowded audience in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Ex-Governor McGill in the chair, T. M. Chester, Esq., Secretary; Ex-President Roberts rose and in a short speech, in the name of the Liberians, welcomed me to Africa. By a vote of thanks and request to continue the discourse on a subsequent evening, this request was complied with on the following Tuesday evening. Dr. M. R. Delany, Monrovia, July 28, 1859