if the mercy of God has been shown him, what better can be said of any one? It was touching to me that he said to you that he "hoped I had heard no harm of him". For he knew well, if I heard of him at all, there was nothing but "harm" to hear. Not to weary you with a very sad tale, Wm Jones was taken in first at my father's house with those two other boys - my father's servants being