I have occasionally dined there, and Mr Easy has always been upholding the principles of natural equality and of the rights of man, much to the amusement of his guests, and I confess, at the time, of mine also.

I recollect telling him that I trusted he would never be able to disseminate his opinions in the service to which I belonged, as we should have an end of all discipline.

I little thought, at the time, that his only son, who has no more occasion to go to sea than the Archbishop of Canterbury, for his father has a very handsome property I believe seven or eight thousand a year--would ever have sailed with me, and have brought these opinions with him into any ship that I commanded.

It is a pity, a great pity." "He never could have brought his pigs to a worse market," observed Sawbridge.
"I agree with you, and, as a father myself, I cannot but help feeling how careful we should be, how we inculcate anything like abstract and philosophical ideas to youth.

Allowing them to be in themselves correct, still they are dangerous as sharp instruments are in the hands of a child;--allowing them to be erroneous, they are seized upon with an avidity by young and ardent minds, and are not to be eradicated without the greatest difficulty, and very often not until they have accomplished their ruin." "Then you think, sir, that these ideas have taken deep root in this young man, and we shall not easily rid him of them ?" "I do not say so; but still, recollect they have been instilled, perhaps, from the earliest period, by one from whom they must have been received with all confidence--from a father to a son; and that son has never yet been sufficiently in the world to have proved their fallacy." "Well, sir," replied Sawbridge, "if I may venture to offer an opinion on the subject--and in so doing I assure you that I only shall from a feeling for the service--if, as you say, these opinions will not easily be Eradicated, as the young man is independent, would it not be both better for himself, as well as for the service, that he is sent home again?
As an officer he will never do any good for himself, and he may do much harm to others.