not fallen into this disaster.

Your affectionate son,

THOMAS B. MACAULAY.

The constant allusions to home politics and to the progress of
the Continental struggle, which occur throughout Zachary
Macaulay's correspondence with his son, prove how freely, and on
what an equal footing, the parent and child already conversed on
questions of public interest. The following letter is curious as
a specimen of the eagerness with which the boy habitually flung
himself into the subjects which occupied his father's thoughts.
The renewal of the East India Company's charter was just then
under the consideration of Parliament, and the whole energies of
the Evangelical party were exerted in order to signalise the
occasion by securing our Eastern dominions as a field for the
spread of Christianity. Petitions against the continued exclusion
of missionaries were in course of circulation throughout the
island, the drafts of which had been prepared by Mr. Macaulay.

Shelford: May 8, 1813.

My dear Papa,--As on Monday it will be out of my power to write,
since the examination subjects are to be given out I write to-day
instead to answer your kind and long letter.

I am very much pleased that the nation seems to take such
interest in the introduction of Christianity into India. My
Scotch blood begins to boil at the mention of the 1,750 names