Tuesday, February 20, 1821

1821

February

Tuesday 20

7 1/2

11 40/60

Before breakfast, wrote the third page of the second sheet I meant to send to Miss Vallance –

Came upstairs at 11 – Meant to have called on Mrs. Empson, at Hope, but it threatened to snow and be a bad day, and therefore wrote a note –

The weather cleared a little and at 12 went down the new bank to Hope – Saw only Ellen, her mother, and Mrs. Waterhouse, who had called.  Sat with the 2 former an hour – Ellen never appeared more glad to see me – Spoke so kindly about the disappointment of not seeing me at Elvington etc. etc. that I felt quite sorry at having ever for a moment fancied she had taken it ill – Conscience makes cowards of us all, and the feeling of not wishing to go made me fancy she might think so too – but she knows better and is glad enough to call such a one as myself so well known at York her friend – Tho all this apart I believe she likes me and certainly her mother likes me at any rate –

From Hope, went to the library.  Staid about an hour reading in the Annals of Philosophy for this month the excellent speech of Sir Humphry to the Royal Society, on taking his chair as president, successor to the late Sir Joseph Banks – and reading, also, in the monthly magazine of July 1820, remarkable praise of the life and writings of the celebrated German philosopher and professor Kant, born, I think, in 1723. died 1804. Turn to this article again.  I must know more about this extraordinary man and his works by and by –

Got home (direct from the library) at a few minutes before 3 – It damped a little as I went and rather more as I returned, and there being rain in the meantime, the streets and roads were very dirty –

I wrote this journal of today – In the afternoon and evening, read from page 236 to 362, end of the Outline of the Revolution in Spanish America –

Mr. Pitt wished to give independence to the Spanish Americans – Vide page 16/362 the instructions sent by the right honourable Henry Dundas, minister for foreign affairs, to Sir Thomas Picton, Governor of the island of Trinidad, in April 1797.

‘To assist the revolutionary party in Spanish America, the English Cabinet paid the expedition of Miranda to Venezuela in 1806, and sent that of Whitelocke to Buenos Ayres in 1807.’ 18/362.

In 1810 the British government ordered its West Indies islands ‘to maintain a perfect neutrality in the contest between Spain and Spanish America, on condition that the new governments should act in the name of Ferdinand the 7th’ 346/362 –

In 1814 the Spanish Deputies could not be favoured with a conference with our minister for foreign affairs, vide page 347.

Buonaparte was making every arrangement to help them just before the battle of Leipsig (in 1814) which led to his overthrow. Vide page 353.

John Oates came while we were at tea and staid till 8 –

Damp, disagreeable day – Barometer 2 degrees above changeable.  Fahrenheit 31° at 9 p.m. –

During supper curled my hair all but the three behind curls –

Got a little cold and sore throat

Came upstairs at 11 1/4 –

 

WYAS Finding Numbers SH:7/ML/E/5/0007 and SH:7/ML/E/5/0008


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