'You say a newspaper would be glad of me.
Do you think you could ensure me employment in that way, on terms similar to your own?
I mean, also, in an Opposition paper, for I cannot abet, in the smallest degree, the measures pursued by the present ministry.

They are already so deeply advanced in iniquity, that, like Macbeth, they cannot retreat.

When I express myself in this manner, I am far from reprobating those whose sentiments differ from my own; I know that many good men are persuaded of the expediency of the present war.' He then turns to domestic matters: 'You would probably see that my brother [afterwards the Master of Trinity] has been honoured with two college declamation prizes.

This goes towards a fellowship, which I hope he will obtain, and am sure he will merit.

He is a lad of talents, and industrious withal.