Temple's Life and Works, the part which he took in the controversy about the ancients and moderns; the Oxford confederacy against Bentley; and the memorable victory which Bentley obtained, will be good subjects.

I am in training for this part of the subject, as I have twice read through the Phalaris controversy since I arrived in India.
I have been almost incessantly engaged in public business since I sent off the paper on Bacon; but I expect to have comparative leisure during the short remainder of my stay here.

The Penal Code of India is finished, and is in the press.

The illness of two of my colleagues threw the work almost entirely on me.

It is done, however; and I am not likely to be called upon for vigorous exertion during the rest of my Indian career.
Yours ever T.B.MACAULAY.
If you should have assigned Temple, or Clive, to anybody else, pray do not be uneasy on that account.