I am glad the bill for the abolition is in such forwardness.

Whether it goes through the House or not, the discussion attending it will have a most beneficial effect.

The whole of this business I think now to be in such a train, as to enable me to bid farewell to the present scene with the satisfaction of not having lived in vain, and of having done something towards the improvement of our common nature; and this at no little expense of time and reputation.
The little I have now written is my utmost effort; yet yesterday I thought it necessary to write an answer to a scurrilous libel in The Diary by one Scipio.

On my own account he should have remained unnoticed, but our great cause must be kept unsullied." Mr.Ramsay was a man of active habit, of diligence and perseverance in his undertakings, and of extraordinary application.

He was of mild and humble manners.