what they are obliged to do on that day, a very small portion only
need be given up to the religious duties of the day.

I was particularly pleased with a passage I met with the other day in
which Bishop Newton on the Prophecies, speaking of Lord Bolingbrook,
who, you know, was an unbeliever and from his talents and eloquence
had too much weight at the time, says, "Raleigh and Clarendon
believed, Lock and Newton believed, where then is the discredit to
Revelation if Lord Bolingbrook was an Infidel. 'A scorner,' saith
Solomon, 'seeketh Wisdom and findeth it not'"

I know not if your father took any notice of the part of your letter
to him where you mention that, in a lecture, it had been proved that
the Blacks were a species between men and monkeys--I think, for I have
not your letter, that I have stated rightly what was said. It might be
asserted, but surely could not be _proved_, and it is doctrine I
do not like, as it goes directly to justify using them as beasts of
burthen--a very good argument for a slave dealer.


_March 1st._

Your father is very well. He was sorry for the fate of the Slave Trade
Bill last night.

The Elopement and distress in the House of Petre has been the chief
subject of conversation for the last few days. Miss Petre [11] made
her escape from her father's house in Norfolk with her Brothers' tutor
on Monday last. It is said they are at Worcester and married only by a
Catholic Priest. However, Lord and Lady P. are gone there and it is