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suffer an ardent friendship, of many years standing, to cool sosuddenly, as not to be greatly interested in what I hear of you,and they tell me that you are ill, and dangerously ill. If the factis so, and you think that my consolation can be of use to you,command me in any way and to any extent you judge fit. Sometwenty years ago you were then, I believe, at Vienna; I preferredyour interest to my own, in soliciting for you the Professorship ofModern History, and you wrote me word, that you should diecontented in having met with a true friend; that friend is stillwhat he was then, and though both our situations are mended,yet the principle of regard remains the same.

“ I am, &c.

“ I ought not to give you advice, for you have not consultedme; and if you had, our feelings may be different, but nothingshould induce me to imbitter the rest of my life in the squabblesof a college.”

It was then reported that Preston was to have been translatedto an English bishopric, and to have been made Master of TrinityCollege.

The tract which I had last year given to the young personsof my diocese was this year published, and a large edition wassoon sold. I have been told that the Society for Promoting Chris­ tian Knowledge , if I would have given them the tract, intendedto have printed an edition of ten thousand copies, and to havedistributed it gratis ; and my information was probably correct,for Bishop Barrington had before asked me to let the Society