Many thanks to you for your attention to my diploma. When you send me a statement of expenses, I will give you a draft for the money; by statement, I mean amount.
I conclude my lectures next Saturday. Upon the whole, I think I have done myself some little good by them.
I think your last articles in the Edinburgh Review extremely able, and by no means inferior to what you have done before.
John Allen is come home, in very high
favour with Lord and Lady Holland. They say he is, without exception,
the best-tempered man that ever lived, very honourable, and of an understanding
superior to most people; in short, they do him complete justice. He is very
little altered, except that he appears to have some faint notions that all the
world are not quite so
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I wrote to Dugald Stewart, to tell him of a report which prevailed here, that the General Assembly had ordered him to drink a Scotch pint of hemlock, which he had done, discoursing about the gods to Playfair and Darcy!*
Best regards to Tim Thompson. When am I to see you again, and John Murray, and everybody in the North whom I love and respect?