which I would that I practised. I have lately compiled the Doctrines of the Friends.

What an admirable work is Paley's, on Christianity! I am reading Valpy's condensed edition.

1831, 11mo. 11th.-Poor Adic and Feedee are both dead: one, on the voyage, without again seeing his native land; the other, soon after his arrival in New Zealand. The people of Derby were kind in supplying them with tools, &c., and teaching them useful arts while in England.*

Our chaise-horse has been out to grass at Newington. He made his escape one day, and came galloping down the road to his stable, bringing another horse with him from the field. He must have come through three gates without stopping to pay the turnpike; he is not to be sent back—we are all much pleased with his sagacity. I made some time ago a small collection of plaster casts: they are rather interesting, but I am afraid perishable.

Spot, my pony, has a cold; some linseed and bran have done him good: he is a nice creature.-Princeps equis.

See Appendix, N.

- 11 mo. 12th.-ON THE DUTIES OF MAN.

Of this attempt of our indefatigable dear boy which is drawn out at considerable length in his manuscript we cannot find room for more than the conclusion of the Essay. The Title-page and Table of Contents are given, just to shew the subjects treated of, and the heads under which they are arranged, and also the authorities that he consulted in compiling it.-ED.

Title.-AN EXPOSITION OF THE DUTIES WHICH WE OWE TO OUR MAKER-TO OUR FELLOW-MORTALS -AND TO OURSELVES.

Conclusion.-We have seen that our duty to God consists in praying to him for help — not to trust to ourselves, but, in a knowledge of our own weakness, fervently to pray for Divine aid. That we are sincerely to worship him and fear him, and in so doing we shall keep his commandments. We should abhor covetousness, lying, oaths, ingratitude, slander, and revenge. We are to be temperate in our diet and apparel.Think not that it is difficult to do as here laid down; for a Christian's life is a happy life, even in this world, and in eternity it wins for us Christ and a place in heaven.

My views upon the Sabbath coincide rather more with Blair than with Paley. It surely is too

derogatory to the dignity of a Divine institution, to suppose that the Divine laws leave it open to violation.

Gratitude is a term of extensive signification : it may be considered as an obligation felt for favours received. In ART. XI. Book III. I have confined it to such favours as are received directly from man. All the favours we receive, are from the Most High; yet he sometimes employs men as his instruments: not that I suppose we have good gifts from men alone - No, but that we sometimes receive favours from God, through man man is the instrument.

1831,11 mo. 26th.-If Paley is correct in the idea, that the poor have as much right to the quota we give for parochial relief, as we have to the remainder of our property, parish relief is no bounty; and, consequently, our benevolence must be exclusive of our quota. But, as every Christian is bound to exercise benevolence to those who are necessitous, it follows, that every Christian must relieve the poor, exclusive of the parish.

1831,11 mo. 27th.-I am perusing "Dr. Russell's Palestine." He is an eloquent writer, as will be apparent from the following passage:-"To the eye of mere philosophy, nothing can appear more striking, than the effects produced upon the world at large, by the opinions and events which originated among the Jewish people a pastoral family, neither so numerous, nor so well acquainted with the arts of civilised life, as many others in the same quarter of the globe, gradually increased into a powerful community; became distinguished by a system of doctrines and usages, different from those of all of the surrounding tribes; retaining it, too, amid the numerous changes of fortune to which they were subjected; and, finally, impressing its leading principles upon the most enlightened nations of Asia and of Europe."

It gives an account of the Hebrew Commonwealth the History of Palestine to the present time the Natural History of Judea, and its present and past Topography.

12 mo. 3d. I have begun to read, for the

first time, the works of John Milton, 3 vols. 8vo,