this state, which is always prompt to punish the offenders. Will you or can you give personal evidence?" I answered, "I cannot. I can do no more than I have done. My publication and my conversation with you, sir, are sufficient. From what I have said to you now, {77} the matter is tangible enough." "Well, sir," rejoined he, "if that is all that you will do and say, we must leave it, and I will write immediately to the district attorney, and get Kelly indicted." This conversation or examination occupied about an hour, and was politely conducted. There is no evidence, that the learned gentleman redeemed his promise here given. A well written pamphlet by my friend, J. Wright, reproaches Mr. Attorney-General with direct breach of promise in this affair.
Dined and spent the day with Mitchel King, Esq., at whose table I met the reverend minister of the Scotch church, and heard him preach in the evening.
The most eminent advocates in the law here, rarely make above 2,000l. sterling, and the salaries of the judges are under 1,000l. per annum.
I thought the reverend gentleman above named, neither eloquent nor very interesting. Our conversation turned from lawyers to divines. We all united in praising and admiring the Rev. Robert Hall, of Leicester, who through the medium of the press seems intimately known and highly valued, here. Specimens of his oratory, from some of his printed sermons, are given for examples to young students in the ministry, and may be seen in a work called, The American Pulpit Orator.
7th.—Met my venerable friend Nathaniel Russell, Esq. and his son-in-law, Mr. Middleton, living in a nest of roses, and both regretting the cause of {78} my letter respecting the negroes, because it would make a deep impression to
