however, that there was not sufficient evidence against her of being a principal in the murder, but that her own confession of having assisted in throwing the body into the water, coupled with other facts, was in Bayley's judgment likely to amount to enough so as to make her conviction very probable, if indicted as an accessary after the fact, and tried as such at the next assizes. The general rule of law is not that accessaries in murder are principals, but that all persons present, aiding and abetting, are principals in the murder; not he alone whose hand actually gave the death. But a presence either actual or constructive,

is always necessary to make a principal.

It is by no means a rule of law, that a party indicted as a principal, if on the trial it should appear that that party was an accessary, would be subject to conviction: on the contrary an acquittal would follow: as it also would, were a party, indicted as an accessary, to be found upon evidence, to have been a principal. In treason, and treason only, will that which in the case of murder would make an accessary, be legally held to make a principal. In treason there are no accessaries, but all are

principals.

I shall not fail to see Basil, who will rejoice in your kind remembrance of him.

Believe me, dear Sir, your obliged and sincerely affectionate, &c. WILLIAM ROUGH.

Brother Runnington begs me to give his warm regards. I write from our Common-Room. C. P. Westminster Hall.

MY DEAR SIR,

May 18, 1813.

Jekyll and Sons, unfortunately, cannot meet you on the 21st. The latter, however, tells me that he had the pleasure of seeing you, in high spirits, at Romilly's.

Lord Hutchinson and my brother Heywood have promised to be with me, to pay their respects to you.

P. Elmsley also comes from Cray in Kent, to see you. I hope I did not do wrong in yielding to his entreaty, that he might be asked to meet you.

Holroyd and Dr. Shaw I will send to immediately. And I hope that Hallam and Mr. Abernethy may neither of them be persons unpleasant to you. They are both anxious in a high degree

about you. I have not asked Jonathan Raine, not knowing at present, how his health and spirits are. Yours, dear Sir, most faithfully,

W. ROUGH.

5th Feb. 1816.

MY DEAR, DEAR SIR, AND MOST HONOURED friend, Nothing has been more pleasing to me than your affectionate letter of congratulation. It is a heartfelt consolation to me that your blessing goes with me! I have, however, been so occupied since the appointment, which is the subject of your good wishes, was offered to me, that I have scarcely had time to communicate in the manner I wished, what, on the whole, is undoubtedly a cause of just satisfaction to me.

Only let me assure you, that I owe it to the kind recollection of a fellow Trinity man, John Beckett, who did me the kindness of believing that I should be useful in the situation offered to my acceptance, and that I was not likely to discredit the fair confidence reposed in me, by the profession at large. I owe the appointment to no cabal, and it has been attended with no sacrifices of sentiment or opinions. Five years is held out as the expected term of absence.

Solemn and sacred as your expression of good will is, I yet may hope that, at the close of that period, we may both be living, and may again interchange discourse together. But at all events I propose seeing you at Hatton, with Harriet accompanying me, before we commence our voyage.

She joins me in bowing with full hearts beneath your benediction. God bless you, my dear Sir,-your friendship is my high honour! Yours gratefully and affectionately,

WM. ROUGH.

W. Seward, Esq., author of Anecdotes of some distinguished persons, in 4 vols. was school-fellow of Parr, at Harrow. His chief correspondence is about the Monumental Inscription on Dr. Johnson, and is printed in the fourth volume.

DR. PARR,

Mr. Seward to Dr. Parr.

Oxford, Aug. 10. I am here collecting materials for some more volumes, and am very kindly and hospitably treated by your friend Kett. I am glad that you like the third volume better than the others. The transcript from Louth's letters, I have not, I wrote it for you, and to you I sent it. In the course of the winter I will again transscribe it for you, from Warburton's letters, &c. in Dr. Birch's collection in the museum. I dine to day, you dog you, with your friend Dr. Routh; good Greek, (of which you know I have a great deal,) good wine, and good conversation. What have you like this at Hatton. Yours very sincerely, W. SEWARD.

George Steevens, Dr. Parr used to say, had only three friends,-himself, Dr. Farmer, and John Reed, so misanthropic and hateful was his character, that he was one of the wisest, most learned, but most spiteful of men; his conversation sometimes so obscure, that old Bob Foster, the Barber, of Cambridge, to whom Parr, Burnet, and Farmer gave a silver basin, with the motto "Radit iter liquidum," threatened one day to cut his throat, because his conversation had a beastly turn, during the operation of shaving; and Dr. Parr is of opinion, he would have done it, had not Steevens been quiet.

DEAR SIR,

Hampstead Heath, May 22, 1798. I had scarce acknowledged the honour of your first letter, before I found myself indebted to you for a second. I shall reserve them both, as precious morsels of criticism, and deposit them in the same case with certain original epistles from Grævius and Gronovius which accidently fell into my hands.

I am compelled to scribble this brief acknowledgment of your

kindness and condesension, in the utmost hurry, my chaise being at the door to carry me into Essex, on business which cannot be delayed.

Dr. Farmer's library will produce at least £2000. We proceed at the rate of about fifty pounds per day; but are not yet arrived at the class of books that form the chief strength of the collection. I am, again, Dear Sir, your most faithful, obliged, and obedient servant, GEO, STEEVENS.

DEAR SIR,

Hampstead Heath, May 26, 1798.

I beg you will accept my warmest thanks for the honour you have done me, respecting the Epitaph designed for the tablet of Dr. Farmer. I must, however, beg leave to be silent on this subject, as every day more and more convinces me of my very imperfect acquaintance with the niceties of the Roman language.

Concerning the topics you have selected on the present occasion, I think myself as little qualified to judge; for the expectations of friendship are too often fastidious and unreasonable.

I can, Sir, with the strictest truth assure you that I never read your Epitaph on Dr. Johnson, till it had been drawn out on a large sheet of paper, for the inspection of the residentiaries, and was left in Amen-corner, by the directions of Mr. Bacon. I, therefore, had no share in the remarks that were hazarded on the word probabilis. I was not elected of the committee at which Mr. Malone presided, nor ever delivered an opinion relative to any syllable throughout your whole performance.

You may depend on it that I will not show your inscription to any person whatever, and that I think myself highly obliged by your permission to read it before it be sent to Cambridge, a place which, in all probability, I shall never visit again. I remain, dear Sir, with repeated thanks, and the sincerest respect, your most faithful and obedient servant, GEO. STEEVENS.

Mr. R. Tickell, one of the authors of the Rolliad, had been acquainted with Parr at Harrow, and

continued his friend to the end of life. In 1788, when political circumstances seemed to open prospects of advancement to Parr, Mr. Tickell thus addressed him:

DEAR SIR,

There is a plan for a more extensive circulation than usual of pamphlets, and I am desired to request you will endeavour to obtain us some local information with this view. What we wish to have is, a list of the inns in Warwickshire where farmers resort to, and of such coffee-houses or hotels as are in your county. I hope you will easily find out some person who can give you this information, and specify the sign and name of the innkeeper. It is just possible that a Bishop elect will conde scend to communicate this intelligence in a letter to me, unless his Lordship prefers Lord J. Townshend as a correspondent, to the exclusion of an older but inferior friend. Believe me, dear Sir, sincerely and faithfully yours, R. TICKELL.

DEAR SIR,

By a variety of mistakes, in most of which I have been principal, or violently accessory, Sheridan has conceived that your decision as to accepting or declining the care of his son's education could not be declared till February next; the period at which (as I meant to have informed him) you can actually receive him. This error has partly arisen from my having entrusted the explanation of your last letter to me on the subject, to Mrs. Tickell, who, in one to her sister, somehow mistook the point, or led to Sheridan's misconception of it. He has been absent from town ever since my return from Suffolk; so that no opportunity occurred to unravel the mistake by a few words, until within this week; when, on his coming to London, he discovered the error, and expressed the greatest regret at the apparent neglect with which you might imagine he had received your obliging and friendly acceptance of the trust. Under these circumstances, I felt it my duty to undertake the explanation of obscurities which my own want of precision had chiefly occasioned; and I hope