Cooler day with an East wind. I remained at home all day. Read the sixth Satire of Juvenal in Gifford’s translation. It is the longest and 197he says the most perfect of all, but it’s subject the vices of Women is not a favourite with me. Wrote the answer to Mr. Johnson referred to yesterday. The Morning Mail gives some further fearful details of the proceedings of the Baltimore mob. They have destroyed the houses of Mess. Johnson, Glenn, Morris, Ellicott and the furniture of the Mayor. He has played a miserable part in this business.

Afternoon, read parts of the Memoirs of the Duc de St. Simon,1 a severe old satirist of the days of Louis 14 and the Regency. What an animal of corruption man is. What a miserable spectacle does he present in his best estate. Also, some of the odes of Peter Pindar, coarse and disagreeable, but rather pointed.

Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Barrel with Miss Keating were here in the afternoon on a visit, and President Quincy came in afterwards. My father was not at home which I regretted. The news from Baltimore is that the violence has ceased.