Something must be interwoven concerning the history of the native powers, Mahomedan, Moor, Mahratta, etc., and their institutions.

I see how all this is to be introduced, and see also that no subject can afford materials more important or more various.

And what a pleasure it will be to read the triumph of such a man as Hastings over the tremendous combination of his persecutors at home! I had a noble catastrophe in writing the Life of Nelson, but the latter days of Hastings afford a scene more touching, and perhaps more sublime, because it is more uncommon.

Let me have the works of Orme and Bruce and Mill, and I will set apart a portion of every day to the course of reading, and begin my notes accordingly." The second touches on his perennial grievance against Gifford: "You will really serve as well as oblige me, if you will let me have a duplicate set of proofs of my articles, that I may not _lose_ the passages which Mr.Gifford, in spite of repeated promises, always will strike out.

In the last paper, among many other mutilations, the most useful _fact_ in the essay, for its immediate practical application, has been omitted, and for no imaginable reason (the historical fact that it was the reading a calumnious libel which induced Felton to murder the Duke of Buckingham).