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preached at High-Wycomb about noon ; and in the afternoon went on to London. Sun. 24. I preached at Shadwell church, which was exceed- ingly crowded with rich and poor, who all seemed to receive the truth in love. Inthe evening I took coach, and the next even- ing preached at Norwich. Afterwards I advised the people to go away in silence ; andthey did so: Neither man nor woman spoke till they were out of the House. The following days I visited the other societies in the Circuit ; and on Tuesday, NOVEMBER 1, returned to London. Fri. 5. We had a solemn watch-night. Saturday, 6. I was an hour or two in conversation with thattrulygreat manPascal Paoli ; who is a tall, well-made, gracefulman, about sixty years of age ; but he does not look to be above forty. He appears to have a real regard for the public good, and much of the fear of God. He has a strong understanding, and seemed to be acquainted with every branch of polite literature. On my saying he had met with much the same treatment with that of an ancient lover of his country, Hannibal, he immediately answered, " But I have never yet met with a King of Bithynia." Mon. 8. This week I visited the societies near London ; a very heavy, but necessary, work. Thursday, 18. I visited two persons in Newgate,who were under sentence of death. They seemed to be in an excellent temper, calmly resigned to the will ofGod. But how much stress can be reasonably laid on such impressions, it is hard to say : So often have I known them vanish away as soon as ever the expectation of death was removed. Sat. 20. At three in the morning two or three men broke 292 [Nov. 1784. into our house, through the kitchen window. Thence they came up into the parlour, and broke open Mr. Moore's bureau, where they found two or three pounds : The night before I had prevented his leaving there seventy pounds, which he had just received. They next broke open the cupboard, and took away some silver spoons. Just at this time the alarum, which Mr. Moore, by mistake, hadset for half past three, (instead of four,) went off, as it usually did, with a thundering noise. At this