“Let it not be supposed, in the observation with which I am now about to conclude, that I mean anything disrespectful to the Council of the Academy. Many years have not passed since I knew several of them in a different relation; and however little effect college associations may produce on _other_ minds, _I_ find not their influence so fleeting or transient. It is with extreme reluctance, therefore, that I would split with a body who have lectured me as tutors. But time has _advanced_; _I am now right, and they are wrong, and the cause which they patronise will not do them much credit_. “I do not, however, yet give up my hopes but that the Academy will _wisely_ retrace their steps. Revocation of the _former_ medal I do not require--much less the exercise of a single grain of _partiality_. My demand merely is, as my former letters have indicated, the substitution of _justice_. “Please receive the assurance of my consideration, and in confident reliance that you will use your influence in this matter, and favour me with the upshot instantly after Monday’s Board,--I remain, ever sincerely yours, “HENRY O’BRIEN.” (No. 8.) “LONDON, _May 9, 1833_. “DEAR DR. SINGER,--My appeals are over; and I regret to say that they have not been attended to. The _virtuous_ and _enlightened part_ of the Academy, therefore, cannot blame me, if, in the assertion of my honest right, I try the effect of a public remonstrance. “In the interim, I transmit to you by this night’s post some additional leaves, which, in the anxiety of despatch, as well, indeed, as from fear that they would not be inserted _because they overwhelm for ever the antiquarian pretensions of the Dublin Penny Journal_,[37] have omitted to copy. However, I will _now_ forward them, and claim that they may be printed along with those already sent in the original Essay. “... I have exhausted all the forms of blandness and conciliation, in the vain hope of inducing the Council to redeem _themselves_ from _disgrace_, by doing _me_ common _justice_. I have strove in the mildest terms of conscious rectitude, invigorated by a phalanx of overwhelming proofs, to make them reconsider their course, and spare me the unpleasant task of exposing a deed which I am loth to characterise by its proper designation. But the ‘heart of Pharaoh’ was hardened; the ‘voice of the charmer’ not listened to; and to my soft importunities nothing was returned but the coldness of obduracy and disregard. “The Rubicon, therefore, is crossed; my patience feels insulted; and the only consideration I value, in the resolve to which I have at last been driven, is, that _you_ had nothing to do with the ‘job’ of the Round Towers.