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nation in the columns of a newspaper, in reply to an attack of which I have only heard, and which I did not care to see.
I must add, however, in all honesty, that although I gave no authority for the insertion of my name on the Committee, and very much regretted it, I did not repudiate or withdraw it, when it was too late to prevent its publication; partly, because I knew that whatever mischief it could do would be past remedy, and that my motives for withdrawal would be almost sure to be misconstrued; but chiefly, because I felt that it would be cowardly to shrink from the responsibility of a measure in which I was bound to take a special interest, although in my present position I had wished to remain entirely passive.
With regard to the Memorial itself, I consider myself fully pledged to its general contents, and feel that I, at least, have no option but to make it the medium of expressing to the Eastern Prelates, that my individual sentiments on the subject to which it relates, still continue to be in accordance with those contained in the Commendatory Letter of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, of which I was, in my official capacity, the bearer to many of them.
My Lord, my opinion on Bishop Gobat's proceedings in Palestine have never been made a secret of by me; I published it fully to the world at a time when they had attracted no public attention, more than a year before your Grace honoured me with
