comforts and conveniences which I have enjoyed at this place, and that I may resign them with holy submission, equally trusting in thy protection when Thou givest and when Thou takest away. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, have mercy upon me.
To thy fatherly protection, O Lord, I commend this family. Bless, guide, and defend them, that they may so pass through this world as finally to enjoy in thy presence everlasting happi ness, for Jesus Christs sake. Amen x .
O Lord, so far as, &c. Thrale 2 .
Oct. 7. I was called early 3 . I packed up my bundles 4 , and used the foregoing prayer, with my morning devotions somewhat, I think, enlarged. Being earlier than the family I read St. Pauls farewel in the Acts 5 , and then read fortuitously in the Gospels, which was my parting use of the library.
155.
Sunday, went to church at Streatham. Templo valedixi aim
Pransus sum Streathamiae agninum crus coctum cum herbis (spinach) comminutis, farcimen farinaceum cum uvis passis, lumbos bovillos, et pullum gallinae Turcicae; et post carnes
hours from all the adjacent villages on the walls. Bentham, who had
to admire and enjoy the diversion.' noticed them, perhaps, by way of
Ib. p. 304. answer, pointed out to the foolish
In 1783 Jeremy Bentham visited Viscount the likenesses of Burke,
Lord Shelburne at Streatham, who Johnson, and Goldsmith. Bentham's
at that time was negotiating the Works, x. 118, 122 ; Life, iv. 158, n. i.
Treaty of Peace with France. 'At ' Quoted in the Life, iv. 158.
one of the dinners Gibraltar was the " Ante, p. 24.
topic, and Rayneval [one of the 3 He was perhaps going that day
French negotiators] was very desirous with the Thrales to Brighton. He
it should be given up by the English, was there on the loth. Letters, ii. 273.
There were among the guests those ' I came to Brighthelmston in a state
who thought Gibraltar was not worth of so much weakness that I rested
keeping.' The Viscount de Vergennes, four times in walking between the inn
the son of the Prime Minister of and the lodging.' Life, iv. 156.
France, said to Bentham: 'Are 4 See Letters, ii. 319, where he
there any such people in England as says : ' I carried my budget myself.'
authors ? ' The portraits of ' the wits 5 Acts xx. I7~end.
of the age' whom Reynolds had 6 Life, iv. 159. ' I bade the church
painted for Thrale were still hanging farewell with a kiss.'
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