Beautiful day. I went to the office. I find my new acquaintance in the room opposite takes up full as much of my time as the former one Mr. Peabody did. Indeed he seems less busy and more talkative.

Read the Intelligencer which contains the last debate, in Congress. The scale seems to be balancing now pretty even. In the mean time there is great distress. A certain amount of Bankruptcy and nothing else will relieve the Community.

Walk. Afternoon, Stewart on the sublime. He derives the beautiful from sight and the association of ideas by which the terms descriptive of impressions on the eye are gradually transferred to other objects of different senses and mental observation. The sublime he likewise draws from elevation. Terence, the Eunuch. Afterwards, read Plato’s Apology of Socrates, with the Account of Socrates in Enfield’s History of Philosophy.