decided upon my future course, and which, I have no doubt you
will think with me, is, under all the circumstances, the best that I
could take. After the course which has been pursued towards me, I shall
be free from all restraints on the matters respecting which they hoped
to impose silence. I shall make the James Methleys, and the James
Spencers, of both the English and Canadian Conferences, feel very
uncomfortable, while I think I shall secure the respect and sympathies
of various religious persuasions and parties in Canada, and the ultimate
accomplishment of the great and divine end I have had in view. Mr.
Spencer's remarks that you enclosed are very weak and flat--more so than
I expected. He speaks of a difference between the Conference and me. The
difference is between him and his abettors (as individuals) and me, not
between the Conference and me. The Conference has avowedly based its
proceedings upon my letter--which is all I care for since my letter is
published. If the terms of the resolution of the Conference are not in
harmony with the terms of my letter, that is of no consequence to me
now--it is for the judgment or taste of those who wrote it. I am glad to
hear that my remarks on Mr. Spencer are favourably received by all my
friends. Mr. Malcolm Cameron has said that if I never wrote another word
on the subject I had mooted, or were I even to leave the Body, the
subject would not sleep--it would be taken up by others--it could not
sleep--and their attacking me, and I defending myself, was, in effect,
discussing the question in the most telling manner.

_Paris, 8th November._--I am glad to learn that at that period when I
was undecided, you entertained the views as to my relations and future
course which I have at length decided to maintain and pursue. I will
stand my ground and battle the affair with my adversaries, on both sides
of the Atlantic, to the last. In order to exclude me from the Conference
they must now bring charges against me; and, in attempting this, they
will raise a difficulty such as they have never yet encountered, and
will invest the whole question with an interest and importance that they
little dream of. Indeed, they have done so already.

_Paris, 14th November._--I am happy to learn that you also entirely
concur in the course I have decided to pursue. I care not a fig for all
that the parties to whom you refer may do or try to do. I have not a
shadow of doubt as to the result. It is