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“ Nuper divitice avaritiam , et abundantes voluptates desiderium, perluxum atque libidinem pereundi perdendique omnia , invexere /”

I this year preached and published a sermon for the Society established for the Suppression of Vice. An hint given in thatsermon, the same which I had given before in 1791, in a sermonpreached for the Philanthropic Society , has been carried intoexecution, by the establishment, in 1805, of a new institution,called The Refuge for the Destitute, under the presidency of theDuke of York.

The Duke of Orleans and his two brothers had honoured mewith a visit of a few days at my house in Westmoreland; and Iwas so much pleased with their conversation, and sympathised sosincerely with them in the misfortunes which had befallen theirhouse, that I could not forbear sending the following letter tothe Duke of Orleans on the murder of his relation the DueD’Enghien: —

“ Sir, Calgarth Park, July 20. 1804.

“ I have no wish to draw Your Highness into a correspondencewith an obscure bishop, but I have a wish to testify to you thesupreme satisfaction I have received from the perusal of theDiscours Funebre pronounced at the obsequies of the DueD’Enghien, and to join my regrets to those of the civilisedworld. It is a matchless piece of eloquence : the occasion makesthe heart of the reader feel, with poignant sympathy, the expres-sions of the orator: I would not be possessed of that man’s soul,who can read it without tears.