The Company staid all Night--at Breakfast the conversation was on a terrible Distemper which is in this County at present; & which in Maryland last year about this time carried off hundreds, and is call'd the "_putrid Quinsy_." Mr Carter has a Man lying now dangerously ill of it! What they do in the Disorder is, when the Inflamation is first observ'd, bleeding; then give the _Bark_ & _Salt-petre_, or _Nitre_, and _Gargles_ to cleanse the mouth-- Our company left us before dinner--Last night I took Bob to my Room, after having in the course of the Day corrected him thrice, & reasoned with him concerning the impropriety of his Behaviour; at the same time I acquainted him with my final resolution to send him over for correction every Day to his Papa's Study, which had so strong an Effect on him (as all the Children are in remarkable Subjection to their Parents) that he firmly pomised to attend to my advice, & thro' this Day has been punctual to his word. I spent the evening with the Family to hear the music. For every evening Prissy & Nancy play the whole Evening for practice & besides every Week half of Teusday, Thursday, & Saturday. We were informed that the _Carter_ who goes with the Team is ill of the sore Throat!-- _Saturday 12._ After having dismised the School I went over to Mr Carters Study--We conversed on many things, & at length on the College of William & Mary at _Williamsburg_. He informed me that it is in such confusion at present, & so badly directed, that he cannot send his Children with propriety there for Improvement & useful Education--That he has known the Professors to play all Night at Cards in publick Houses in the City, and has often seen them drunken in the Street!--That the Charter of the College is vastly Extensive, & the yearly income sufficient to support a University being about 4.000£. Sterling.--That the Necessary Expence for each Scholar yearly is only 15£ Currency. Two of the officers of the Institution, Mr Bracker, & Mr Henly[125] Clergymen are at present engaged in a paper War published weekly in the Williamsburg Gazette's. [125] John Bracken served as minister of Bruton Parish Church at Williamsburg from 1773 to 1818. He also served for a period as master of the grammar school at the College of William and Mary, and for two years as president of the college. At this time Bracken had just incurred the bitter enmity of Samuel Henley, professor of divinity and moral philosophy at the college, who had hoped to secure the appointment given his rival. The two men aired their grievances in a long and acrimonious controversy carried on in the columns of the _Virginia Gazette_. Henley, a Tory, left the colony for England in 1775 and never returned. He later became principal of the East India College at Hertford.