Then I will show you a most superb emendation of Bentley's in Ampelius, and I will give you unanswerable reasons for pronouncing that Gibbon was mistaken in supposing that Quintus Curtius wrote under Gordian.
Remember me most kindly to Mrs.Ellis.I hope that I shall find Frank writing as good Alcaics as his father.
Ever yours affectionately T.B.MACAULAY.
Calcutta: March 8, 1837.
Dear Ellis,--I am at present very much worked, and have been so for a long time past.

Cameron, after being laid up for some months, sailed at Christmas for the Cape, where I hope his health will be repaired; for this country can very ill spare him.

However, we have almost brought our great work to a conclusion.

In about a month we shall lay before the Government a complete penal Code for a hundred millions of people, with a commentary explaining and defending the provisions of the text.
Whether it is well, or ill, done heaven knows.

I only know that it seems to me to be very ill done when I look at it by itself; and well done when I compare it with Livingstone's Code, with the French Code, or with the English statutes which have been passed for the purpose of consolidating and amending the Criminal Law.