[omak.
1846. put the happiest moment of my life will be that which
Ar. 42. releases me from the conflicting sense of rival duties, by
restoring me again to private life.”
A few days later he wrote to Mr, Edmund Potter i=“Many
 thanks for your friendly letter. Though I app
slate your kindness even where it restrains you from writing
 to me, let me assure you that your handwriting alway®
gives me pleasure. ¥ou would not doubt it, if you could
have a peep at the letters which pour in upon me. } 1
have sometimes thought of giving William Chambers 8 hin
for an amusing paper in his journal upon the miseries of &
popular man. First, half the mad people in the count
who are still at large, and they are legion, address the
incoherent ravings to the most notorious man of the how™
Next, the kindred tribe who think themselves poets, WhO
are more difficult than the mad people to deal with, send
their doggerel and solicit subscriptions to their volumes
with occasional requests to be allowed to dedicate thew
Then there are the Jereray Diddlers who begin the
epistles with high-flown compliments upon my services 3
the millions, and always wind up with a request that I wil
bestow a trifle upon the individual who ventures to lay D1
distressing case before me. To add to my miserie®
people have now got an idea that I am influential with
the Government, and the small place-hunters are at DP
Yesterday a man wrote from Yorkshire, wanting the siti”
tion of a gauger, and to-day a person in Herts request
me to procure him a place in the post-office, Then ther?
are all the benevolent enthusiasts who have their Pe
reforms, who think that becsuse a man has sacrificed
himself in mind, body, and estate in attempting 10 do
one thing, he is the very person to do all the rest, The
good people dog me with their projects. Nothing in thei
Byes is impossible in my hands, One worthy man calls 1

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