Chap. I.] JoUKXAL.— January. 25 



tionate mother! I hastened back into the room. If I had 

 looked a moment longer, I should have dropped. When 

 I came to reflect, what a change! 1 looked do^^^l at 

 my dress. What a change ! What scenes I had gone 

 t'nrough ! How altered my state ! I liad dined the day 

 before at a Secretary of State's in company ^Wth Mr. 

 Pitt, and had been waited upon by men in gaudy live- 

 ries ! I had had nobody to assist me in the world. 

 No teachers of any sort. Nobody to shelter me from 

 the consequence of bad, and no one to counsel me to 

 good, behaviour. I felt proud. The distinctions of 

 rank, birth, and wealth, all became nothing in my eyes ; 

 and from that moment (less than a month after my 

 arrival in England) I resolved never to bend before 

 them. 



10. Same veather. Went to see my old Quaker- 

 friends at Bustleton, and particularly my beloved friend 

 James Paul, who is ver\ ill. 



17. Returned to Philadelphia. Little frost and a 

 little snow. 



18, 19, 20&21. Moderate frost. Fine clear skj-. 

 The Philadelphians are cleanly, a quality which they 

 owe chiefly to the Quakers. But, after being long and 

 recently familiar with the towns in Surrey and Hamp- 

 shire, and especially with Guildford, Alton, and South- 

 ampton, no other towns appear clean and neat, not even 

 Bath or Salisbury, which last is much about upon a par, 

 in point of cleanliness, with Philadelphia ; and, Salis- 

 bury is deemed a very cleanly place. Blandford and 

 Dorchester are clean ; but, I have never yet seen any 

 thing like the towns in Surrey and Hampshire. If a 

 Frenchman, born and bred, could be taken up and car- 

 ried blindfold to Guildford, I wonder what his sensations 

 would be, when he came to have the use of his sight ! 

 Every thing near Guildford seems to have received an 

 influence from the town. Hedges, gates, stiles, gar- 

 dens, houses inside and out, and the dresses of the peo- 

 ple. The market day at Guildford is a perfect show of 

 cleanliness. Not even a carter without a clean smock- 

 frock and closely-shaven and clean-washed face. Well 

 may Mr. Birkbeck, who came from this very spot, think 

 the people dirty in the western country ! I'll engage 



