Thomas Durrant breakfasted with me. In the morning my brother came over… Mr Terry, rider to Messrs Kendall and Rushton, called on me, to whom I gave a small order.
In the forenoon my father Slater came to see me in his road to. Lewes, and I rode with him to Lewes where I paid Mrs Roase in cash 6.4.6 in full… My father Slater being in a hurry, I dined nowhere… I borrowed of my father Slater in cash 1 guinea…
Came home about 10:10 (my father staying at Lewes), but I wish I were so happy as to have in my power to say I came home sober. For what with going without victuals and calling with my father at so many places, the liquor soon crept into my poor shallow brains. Oh, how do I lament my want of resolution in this particular! It is not, I am sure, the love of liquor that entices me to be guilty of this folly; no, it is not, but an easy and foolish modesty that occasions it. But however once more I will try and see if I cannot get the better of it, for I will drink nothing strong.