_Visit to Thelwall_.
'Mr.Coleridge, my sister, and I had been visiting the famous John Thelwall, who had taken refuge from politics after a trial for high treason, with a view to bring up his family by the profits of agriculture, which proved as unfortunate a speculation as that he had fled from.

Coleridge and he had been public lecturers, Coleridge mingling with his politics theology, from which the other elocutionist abstained, unless it were for the sake of a sneer.

This quondam community of public employment induced Thelwall to visit Coleridge, at Nether-Stowey, where he fell in my way.

He really was a man of extraordinary talent, an affectionate husband, and a good father.

Though brought up in the City, on a tailor's board, he was truly sensible of the beauty of natural objects.