Henry Warburton to Faraday   8 July 1823

Sir,

I have read the article in the Royal Institution Journal on Electro-magnetic rotation +¹ and without meaning to convey to you that I approve of it unreservedly, I beg to say that upon the whole it satisfies me, as I think it will Dr. Wollaston’s other friends.

Having everywhere admitted & maintained that on the score of scientific merit you were entitled to a place in the Royal Society, I never cared to prevent your election, nor should I have taken any pains to form a party in private to oppose you. What I should have done would have been to take the opportunity, which the proposing to ballot for you would have afforded me, to make remarks in public on that part of your conduct to which I objected; of this I made no secret, having intimated my intention to some of those from whom I knew you would hear of it, & to the President himself. <->

When I meet with any of those in whose presence such conversation may have passed, I shall state that my objections to you as a Fellow are & ought to be withdrawn, & that I now wish to forward your Election.

I am, Sir, | your faithful servant | Henry Warburton

18 Lower Cadogan [word illegible]. July 8. 1823 <->

Endorsed by Faraday: + See Vol xv p 288²

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