who had come to this country with the same views
as the Germans just mentioned; but, being men
of property, were engaged in business. These
friends having been eye witnesses of the ravages of
war, which of late have so desolated some of the
finest countries in Europe, often expressed their
thankfulness, in broken English, that they were
permitted thus to sit down in a land, where peace
and plenty so generally prevailed. One of the last
mentioned family, of the name of Valentine

, a man
of a very delicate constitution, and who had suf-
fered a great deal through bad health, and the
almost constant state of alarm his country had
been kept under for years past, by contending
armies, used sometimes to say to his brothers:
How thankful ought we now to feel for being
thus placed amongst friends: we can sleep peace-
fully in our beds, and, rising in the morning, we
can pursue our business without interruption or
alarm; and can sit down in a land of plenty, eating
our bread in quietness and peace. This evening
I supped with I. P. an English friend, who some
years back had emigrated from York, and is now
well settled in business here.

2d Month, 6th.

I attended Baltimore week-day
meeting

. In the afternoon I set out for Washing-
ton city, in company with E. W. and slept this
night at his house near Elkridge, where he has a
valuable estate, and a large well constructed flour