LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 543 



you to publish? I would advise every man to publish whose subjects 

 are well chosen, whose sentiments are just, and who can afford to be 

 a loser, if that should happen, by his publication.' " 



I extract the following equally shrewd passage from a letter of 

 Wesley's to the same Churchey, given in Tyerman, also having 

 reference to the canvass for the sale of the proposed poems. "As you 

 are not a stripling," Wesley says, " I wonder you have not yet learnt 

 the difference between promise and performance. I allow, at least, 

 five-and-twenty per cent. ; and from this conviction, I say to each of 

 my subscribers, what indeed you cannot say so decently to yours — 

 ' Down with your money.'" 



{g) A letter of Canning's will not here be out of place, for he too 

 was an Oxfordman. It has reference to the affairs of a pensioner, 

 who has had some difficulty in receiving his allowance. I transcribe 

 from the origmal, wholly in Canning's hand. It is dated at South 

 Hill, near Bracknell, Berks, October 22, 1805, and is addressed to 

 J. Smith, Esq., Chelsea Hospital. It i^eads as follows : " Sir : A poor 

 out-pensioner of Kilmainham Hospital, who resides in my neighbour- 

 hood, has been accustomed to apply to me to pay him his half-year's 

 pension as it became due, giving me his receipt for the same; and till 

 this year I have found no difficulty in recovering the amount by 

 application through my agent, at the Hospital near Dublin. This 

 year the enclosed receipt for two payments advanced to Simon 

 Hobson (that is the man's name) has been returned to me, with 

 notice that I am to apply to you for repayment, for that by a new- 

 regulation all English pensioners belonging to Kilmainham are to be 

 paid at Chelsea. I shall be obliged to you if you will remit to me the 

 amount of the enclosed receipts, and if you will have the goodness at 

 the same time to let me know, for the information of the poor man, 

 whether Hobson is in future to address his half-yearly affidavit to 

 Chelsea and to what officer there, instead of, as heretofore, to the 

 Registrar of Kilmainham. I have the honour to be, &c., Geo. 

 Canning." 



(2) To the Cambridge group I add {a) a. third autograph relic, of 

 the Rev. Charles Simeon, a note addressed by him apparently to his 

 publisher. " I have sent all the remainder of the books," he says, " of 

 which I desire your acceptance. I have enclosed 50 of The Evang. and 

 Phar. Righ. compared, and 50 of The Fresh Cautions : 2nd edition. 

 Pray put by the remainder of the first edition ; and if without incon- 



