If I did not maintain a constant struggle against this propensity, my correspondence would resemble the notes to the 'Pursuits of Literature.' It is a dangerous thing for a man with a very strong memory to read very much.

I could give you three or four quotations this moment in support of that proposition; but I will bring the vicious propensity under subjection, if I can." [Many years later Macaulay wrote to my mother: "Dr.-- came, and I found him a very clever man; a little of a coxcomb, but, I dare say, not the worse physician for that.

He must have quoted Horace and Virgil six times at least a propos of his medical inquiries.

Horace says, in a poem in which he jeers the Stoics, that even a wise man is out of sort when 'pituita molesta est;' which is, being interpreted, 'when, his phlegm is troublesome.' The Doctor thought it necessary to quote this passage in order to prove that phlegm is troublesome;--a proposition, of the truth of which, I will venture to say, no man on earth is better convinced than myself."] Calcutta, May 29, 1835.
Dear Ellis,--I am in great want of news.

We know that the Tories dissolved at the end of December, and we also know that they were beaten towards the end of February.