is to
be placed, had been licensed (under the Provincial Statute referred
to in the Charter) as Ministers of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in
Canada. To these reasons the Crown Officers yielded, and thus the
Charter was completed.

I then renewed my application for receiving aid from the Casual and
Territorial Revenue of Upper Canada. In reply, I was assured that
the Lieutenant-Governor would be directed to bring the claims of
the Academy before the notice of the Provincial Legislature.

Dr. Ryerson concludes:--

Thus terminated this protracted correspondence of more than six
months, during the whole of which time I was enabled to cleave to
and maintain my original purpose; though I had to encounter
successive, discouraging, and almost insurmountable difficulties.
Not having been able to effect any loan from private individuals,
on account of the agitated state of the Canadas--being in suspense
as to the result of my application to the Government, I was
several months pressed down with anxiety and fear by this suspense,
and by reason of the failure of my efforts to obtain relief. In
this anxiety and fear my own unassisted resolution and fortitude
could not sustain me. I had to rely upon the unfailing support of
the Lord, my God.

In my negotiations for the Charter, I was uniformly treated with
courtesy and kindness in the Colonial office, and by the several
members of His Majesty's Government. Praise God!

In a letter written to Dr. Alder, after Dr. Ryerson had returned from
England, the latter said:--

We have not yet received a farthing of the Government grant to our
Academy. The Governor's reply still is, there is no money in the
treasury; but he has given us his written promise, and offered his
word to any of the banks, that it shall be paid out of the first
money which had not been previously appropriated. But, strange to
say, there is not a bank or banker in Upper Canada that will take
the Governor's promise for L100. Mr. Receiver-General Dunn kindly
lent, out of his own pocket, to my brother John, about L1,200 for
the Academy, upon my brother's receipt, remarking at the same time
that he did it upon his credit, and out of respect to the
Methodists, but that he could place no dependence upon the word of
Sir Francis in the matter. We ar