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“ Hie aliquis de gente hircosa centurionumDicat: quod satis est sapio mihi; non ego euroEsse quod Arcesilas aerumnosique Solones.”

“ Yet I am not disposed to give as much weight to the testi-mony of the Centurion as Dr. Sherlock seems to have done.

“ As to the word hxuioc, it is applied to Joseph; Sntaios uv to Zacha-rius and his wife, and to Simeon; to Noah, ctvfyuiros hxouos tbXuoquv, to so many persons, and on such a variety of occasions, that Icannot help thinking, that the Centurion, when he applied it toJesus, had no particular reference to his divine character or nature,but merely to his being a good man, in testimony of whose good-ness God had so miraculously interfered.

“ To a mind less liberal than your own, I should not have ven-tured to write so freely; but I know you expect this from me,who am with sincerity and real respect,

“ Your obliged servant,

“ R. Landaff.”

The Duke of Grafton, to whom I had signified my intentionof not going to London , on account of the expense attending thejourney, kindly pressed me, on private and public grounds, toreconsider the matter. In my letter to him, December 14th, 1808,after thanking him for his attention, I added: — “I allow myeldest son 700/. a-year, and I intend to make up to him the differ-ence between his half-pay and his full pay. I trouble you withthese particulars, because I am anxious that you should approvemy conduct j and I have no doubt of your thinking I dischargea father’s duty better, in supporting the spirits of a son depressed