The other boys, especially Lyon, a Scotch boy, and Wilberforce, are very good-natured, and we might have gone on very well had not one, a Bristol fellow, come here.

He is unanimously alloyed to be a queer fellow, and is generally characterised as a foolish boy, and by most of us as an ill-natured one.

In my learning I do Xenophon every day, and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce, whom all the boys allow to be very clever, very droll, and very impudent.

We do Latin verses trice a week, and I have not yet been laughed at, as Wilberforce is the only one who hears them, being in my class.

We are exercised also once a week in English composition, and once in Latin composition, and letters of persons renowned in history to each other.