How the case may stand in London I do not know; but here the public danger, like all dangers which depend merely on human opinions and feelings, has disappeared from our sight almost in the twinkling of an eye.

I hope that the result of these changes may be the secure reestablishment of our commerce, which I suppose political apprehension must have contributed to depress.

I hope, at least, that there is no danger to our own fortunes of the kind at which you seem to hint.

Be assured however, my dear Father, that, be our circumstances what they may, I feel firmly prepared to encounter the worst with fortitude, and to do my utmost to retrieve it by exertion.

The best inheritance you have already secured to me,--an unblemished name and a good education.