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not say whether good or bad, but if you have imbibed the idea 

 that Laud was everything bad and shocking, perhaps it may serve 



to plead a little in his favour. I fear our worthy Dr. F r 



thinks Jeremy dreadfully "low church," and so he is un- 

 doubtedly in his " Liberty," wherein the definition of Catholicity 

 is very Catholic indeed. When I read him I was greatly 

 pleased therewith ; but as I have perhaps altered a little in 

 sentiment since that time, I don't know how I may like him 

 when I next dip into him." 



At the close of this year, the prospect of being appointed to a 

 situation then vacant in Trinity College, Dublin, unexpectedly 

 opened. His feelings at this important crisis in his life may be 

 well understood as depicted both in his gay and grave manner 

 in the following letters : — 



To Miss F . 



Plassey, December 1843. 

 As I know you dearly love a secret, I am going to tell you 

 one which is no secret at all to many persons who are engaged 

 in forwarding it, but it is not talked of to those who have nothing 

 to say to it, and who cannot do anything to forward it. Now 

 you are clearly one of the latter, and only one of the former in 

 common with my other well-wishers. 



By this you will learn that the matter affects myself. I have 

 made a proposal, and I am taken under consideration. You 



may have observed that when I was last in C , I attended 



church, and further, that in this note I drop the " tu-toi " which 

 I have been in the practice of using to my immediate friends. 

 By these symptoms you may infer that the Lady in question is 

 not " one of you as a people," but of the right sort, one of the 

 established church called Holy Catholic, and in this conjecture 

 you are strictly correct. She is of that persuasion, and more- 

 over, she is not over young, but she has money, and this you 

 know will smooth many a wrinkle, and colour with carmine 

 the yellowest cheek. But money is not her sole charm 

 in my eyes. The respectability of the connection, and her 

 being addicted to Botany, are what have peculiarly won my 

 affections, and made me enter the lists of her admirers. To 

 conclude this long preface, she resides in Dublin, which will be 

 very pleasant. She has a good house of her own in College 



