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 comforts and conveniences which I have enjoyed at this place, and that I may resign them with holy submission, equally trusting in thy protection when Thou givest and when Thou takest away. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, have mercy upon me.

To thy fatherly protection, O Lord, I commend this family. Bless, guide, and defend them, that they may so pass through this world as finally to enjoy in thy presence everlasting happi ness, for Jesus Christs sake. Amen x.

O Lord, so far as, &c. Thrale 2.

Oct. 7. I was called early 3. I packed up my bundles 4, and used the foregoing prayer, with my morning devotions somewhat, I think, enlarged. Being earlier than the family I read St. Pauls farewel in the Acts 5, and then read fortuitously in the Gospels, which was my parting use of the library.

155.

Sunday, went to church at Streatham. Templo valedixi aim

Pransus sum Streathamiae agninum crus coctum cum herbis (spinach) comminutis, farcimen farinaceum cum uvis passis, lumbos bovillos, et pullum gallinae Turcicae; et post carnes

hours from all the adjacent villages on the walls. Bentham, who had

to admire and enjoy the diversion.' noticed them, perhaps, by way of

Ib. p. 304. answer, pointed out to the foolish

In 1783 Jeremy Bentham visited Viscount the likenesses of Burke,

Lord Shelburne at Streatham, who Johnson, and Goldsmith. Bentham's

at that time was negotiating the Works, x. 118, 122 ; Life, iv. 158, n. i.

Treaty of Peace with France. 'At ' Quoted in the Life, iv. 158.

one of the dinners Gibraltar was the " Ante, p. 24.

topic, and Rayneval [one of the 3 He was perhaps going that day

French negotiators] was very desirous with the Thrales to Brighton. He

it should be given up by the English, was there on the loth. Letters, ii. 273.

There were among the guests those ' I came to Brighthelmston in a state

who thought Gibraltar was not worth of so much weakness that I rested

keeping.' The Viscount de Vergennes, four times in walking between the inn

the son of the Prime Minister of and the lodging.' Life, iv. 156.

France, said to Bentham: 'Are 4 See Letters, ii. 319, where he

there any such people in England as says : ' I carried my budget myself.'

authors ? ' The portraits of ' the wits 5 Acts xx. I7~end.

of the age' whom Reynolds had 6 Life, iv. 159. ' I bade the church

painted for Thrale were still hanging farewell with a kiss.'

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