Paragraph No. 4.--‘Upon the case as represented in the affidavits, the exhibits and the answer, I have formed my opinion; conceiving myself, according to the practice of the Court, at liberty to form it, in the case of an infant, whether the petition in its allegations and suggestions has or has not accurately presented that case to the court, and having intimated in the course of the hearing before me, that I should so form my judgment.’--No word here about Shelley’s opinions. Paragraph No. 5.--‘There is nothing in evidence before me, sufficient to authorise me in thinking that this gentleman has changed, before he arrived at the age of twenty-five, the _principles_ he avowed at nineteen. I think there is ample evidence in the papers, _and in conduct_, that no such change has taken place.’--Observe again how the Lord Chancellor keeps Shelley’s _conduct_ as well as his avowed and unrecanted principles clearly in view. Paragraph No. 6.--‘I shall studiously forbear in this case, because it is unnecessary, to state in judgment what this Court might or might not be authorised to do in the due exercise of its jurisdiction, upon the ground of the probable effect of a father’s principles, of any nature, whatever upon the education of his children, _where such principles have not been called into activity or manifested in such conduct in life_, as this Court, upon, such an occasion as the present, would be bound to attend to.’--Observe, the Lord Chancellor declares, that the case under his consideration is not a case where he has to consider a father’s principles apart from his _conduct_; that the case is one of a father’s principles having been acted upon by him; that the judgment he is about to deliver has been formed on a consideration of Shelley’s _conduct_ in connection with his avowed principles. Paragraph No. 7.--‘I may add, that this case differs also, unless I misunderstand it, from any case in which such principles having been called into activity, nevertheless, in the probable range and extent of their operation, did not put to hazard the happiness and welfare of those whose interests are intrusted to the protection of this Court.’--Observe how, in this paragraph, principles and conduct are both kept in view.