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great Banana, which looks as if it would produce 

 fruit. They have had the Bohea Tea in flower : — 

 and excepting these articles, our garden has nothing 

 to show at present. I believe where we exceed Li- 

 verpool is in the large trees and shrubs. 



I hear your new work is come over, and I am 

 impatient to see and begin it. If I can make it out 

 so as to be in time for the Institution course, I shall 

 be enchanted. Mr. Roscoe, from his writings, and 

 intimacy with my relations, I think myself well 

 acquainted with : I was introduced to him, and 

 enjoyed his conversation for half an hour when last 

 in Liverpool. 



I believe our politics, that is, yours and mine, 

 being founded on strict moral principles, can never 

 differ. I look on the outrage at Copenhagen with 

 as much indignation as if I were a native of the 

 place : I am glad to hear there are some people in 

 England that are sensible of its baseness ; but I fear 

 very few, and that is a dreadful symptom of general 

 depravity. 



Botany, that in England unites people and 

 classes them in friendship, produces here a contrary 

 effect ; they are all at variance : the University has 

 displaced Dr. Scott, an ingenious, lively man with 

 great merit, and a good botanist. 



I have read Mr. Johnes's Froissart, and think it 

 a most curious picture of its times. All the little 

 skirmishes and battles that resemble one another so 

 closely, we may skip over in a great measure. How 

 melancholy the consideration, that in all countries 

 and in all ages to fight and to slaughter is the road 



