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admonishing, in consequence of his getting 

 into a riot from intoxication. " Very true, Sir, 

 I am much to blame, but perhaps more to be 

 pitied; education has given you, Sir, the 

 power of controlling your passions ; the want of 

 it makes me a slave to mine." 



Within the last twenty years, more extra- 

 ordinary events have been crowded together 

 than the civilized world ever before witnessed. 

 Great as have been the political revolutions 

 of states, they bear no comparison to the 

 changes reasonably to be anticipated in the 

 moral condition of society in consequence of 

 the diffusion of knowledge, now so rapidly 

 extending over the face of the habitable part 

 of the universe. Man will no longer remain 

 ignorant of the unerring principles of truth 

 and natural religion ; these will teach him his 

 indispensable duty to his God ; while by the 

 Gospel and Sacred Writings, he will become 

 well-educated in his.social duty and obligations 

 to his fellow creatures. The distinguished 

 lead which Britain has taken in this glorious 

 k will immortalize her name, when all her 

 victories shall be forgotten. 



I purpose writing again before we leave 

 hospitable roof; till when, adieu. . : 



J. C. C. 



