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Chapel Hill, March 5 1855.
To the Members of the Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of No Carolina:

As an appendix to my petition of the 21st ulto, I beg leave to submit the present memorial to your consideration.

In all the important Colleges of this country where the Modern Languages are taught, the French Department is invariably entrusted to a native Frenchman

The reason is obvious. It is but natural that a Parisian should understand his mother tongue better than a New Yorker or Virginian; his pronunciation at least is Gallic, and if at all skilled in teaching, he can more easily impart it to others. The addition of such an Instructor generally induces the young men to study French, and