130 MR. WELLS 



company with a man of enlightened understanding, great 

 experience in poUtical affairs, with a thorough knowledge 

 of his kind — evinced, T thought, a little too broadly 

 in exposing the vanities and absurdities of his late 

 coadjutors. He was one of the few who had done good 

 in his generation by dispersing the cloud of darkness 

 and 2^1'oi^iulgating truly liberal principles through the 

 land. Having made the nature and condition of the 

 Fens his early study, he took every opportunity of pro- 

 posing and advocating measures that should improve the 

 value of the soil and materially advance the interests of 

 the inhabitants. 



We spent the evening together, enjoying each other's 

 conversation to a late hour, though I was more intent on 

 the information I was obtaining than in dilating on my 

 own antecedents, which he seemed at intervals desirous 

 to ascertain. This acquaintance, if a free and familiar, 

 though but occasional intercourse does not deserve a 

 better name, continued until the rail put an end to 

 my career, which he did not long survive. Peace to 

 his manes ! ^ 



' Samuel Wells, Esq., late Eegistrar to the Bedford Level 

 Corporation. 



