I enclose my thoughts on the subject you did me the honour to
propose to me. Your own better judgment will decide concerning
their value, or their fitness for the circumstances of your
College. This may require a very different distribution of the
business from that which I here recommend.
I thank you for your care to transmit a copy of my works to Bp.
Madison. He, as well as many others, speaks of the increasing
spread of republican principles in this country. I wish I could
see the effects of it. But I fear we flatter ourselves, and if I
be rightly informed, my poor _Letters_ have done more harm than
good. I can only say that I am a sincere well wisher to this
country, and the purity and stability of its constitution.
Yours sincerely,
J. PRIESTLEY.
Northumberland May 8, 1800.