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express at his situation, and
the wish he had in consequence formed to return
his office in the hands of the board even beofre
the expiration of the first session he
acted. Tho' from reasons of delicacy she said
professor did not think fit to explain all
his motives on those occasions, yet he readily
perceived that so long as he was to act with a
feeble minded monk, [begin inserted text above] Nicholas Debraiux [end inserted text above] and as apostate
and scepticized preachers, whom little
mind was fruitful is
every kind of villainy which envy could suggest
and unprincipled ambitions could move him to
effect, whom judgement and courage were to
the last degree weak, but whose baseness
prompted him to a ecrete train to treachery and falsehood, and
as long as the only one on whom he found him
= self capable of placing any dependee was
a man William Augustus Richard died Dec. 1798) whose previous life had not earned him
an exalted character, it required no great
sagacity to discover that the public affairs
were not to be advantageously conducted
& that the character & happiness of said professor
were not likely to be greatly enhanced.
Nothing therefor could be effect is the faculty
but with the utmost difficulty and after every
resolution on whatever subject misrepresentations
tending to destroy its effect and to blacken
the views and the character of said professorwere