God bless you, my ever dear friend, and Your affectionately attached S. T. COLERIDGE. T. Allsop, Esq. P.S. Our friend Gillman sees the factious nature and origin of the proceedings in so strong a light, and feels so indignantly, that I am constantly afraid of his honesty spirting out to his injury. If I had the craft of a Draughtsman, I would paint Gillman in the character of Honesty, levelling a pistol (with "Truth" on the barrel) at Sutton, in the character of Modern Reform, and myself as a _Dutch_ Mercury,[123] with rod in hand, hovering aloft and----pouring water into the touchhole. The superscription might be "Pacification," a little finely pronounced on the first syllable.[124] The scheme alluded to in the last two letters, was a project to deliver a course of lectures in Dublin. Anster, the translator of _Faust_, was a Professor in Trinity College, Dublin. LETTER 199. TO ALLSOP January 25th, 1822. Dearest Friend, My main reason for wishing that Mrs. Gillman should have made her call on Mrs. Allsop, or that Mrs. Allsop would waive the ceremony, and taking the willingness for the act, and the præsens _in rus_ (if Highgate deserves that name) for the future _in urbe_, would accompany you hither, on the earliest day convenient to you both, is, that I cannot help feeling the old inkling to press you to spend the Sunday with me, and yet feel a something like impropriety in so doing. Speaking confidentially, _et inter nosmet_, if it were prognosticable that dear Charles would be half as delightful as when we were last with him, and as pleasant relatively to the probable impressions on a stranger to him as Mary always is, I should still ask you to fulfil our first expectation. As it is, I must be content to wish it; and leave the rest to your knowledge of the circumstantial pro's and con's. Only remember, that what is dear to you becomes dear to me, and that whatever can in the least add to happiness in which you are interested, is a duty which I cannot neglect without injury to my own. _I am convinced that your happiness is in your own possession._ One part of your letter gave me exceeding comfort--that in which you spoke of the peculiar sentiment awakened or inspired _at first sight_. _This is an article of my philosophic creed._