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$b»m*tn rhh'iMMtikii >• mien asked. *nd >t
Ifc aamHiiww nested at «tr *»blirk pWrn -nd >n
rir«M)£]Mth noliitlc animation : in truth,
ft is notjlMgethtr unio.portaut either as respects
fjjp. JnrMBn nr ourselves. With a view then to *s
jdni In i«nl« pn^kk opinion on this question, »•
tonKNt intntji* Uw n(nation*for wiwaoiho
tnrtho raw, nnd w» find it m the
fnt1o*|ittg patMZr* from two authors of high rale
hritfS* i\
' ■ JR*A M Mfharity sometimes qooUd hv
tbs administrating who ha* n Wg chapter o» the
■BMapnities nf ambassadors, says :
iKdfW reapert due to sovereigns shnold reflect on
fl^Mredtttati*a«, md rhh Nv on their srnhmsa
AjPrepreSelttinghiS master's person in the iiist
Whoever affh>pt»«ir injures a pul-lick tm
X, rorq«|i U h mine ihs mure deserving a «'
ffipunisineht as thereby the government might
Ij&Mbl into great difficulties and trouble."
m> 680.
fC 4HK—“ T^e grtst inymhibility of a pa " *
Wfw inffty due to him, more Sacredly
JHpuitre particularly than to any other person.
^IwBtj^f |qr#g«?f«r n*li»e. is not his onlv pmi
?*8« t fie is further, l»y the universal practice of the
«f j»4tioos,.ti> enjoy on independency from the
Jurisdiction and authority of tbs stats when* he
fsside». | f>88
Hy ronchides jhbs :
We have dfiived the independence and in viola
|y|jthtiraftejria| nu »«n Windy#* from the nsiuraf
Wild nrressnrWprinriples of tho law of nn*mns.—
> science du Government, a Freni I
beat reputation expresses him
wetgrt m o coumry may sniperm iil
l'll fa Yoreigts minister, tut he cnnu.t ft*
of ku nmhltriol ot.oractrr, beciute,
nftrrtd if* iipon kirn. It biting* ntite i i
kit matter &tio created liim putiic in'nine' to dr
privchimnf that characttr. It is into his hands
fyymH a foreign njinlster ought 10 resign his
fWMM When his ernlbi&sy shalKe finishril, whatc
*etr may be the manneh iii which it may have been
tuished. In the departure of a minister from the
WmwtrVtu.wbirh he was sent, he is to In* consider
ed as unless a minister in returning, dun be teas in
mining, whether snrh departure be volbntrry or
mto|Wlsnry. Tbtte rrpna^ttaUrr* of sor reigns.
•t«Su He regarded as siuiwF* dtt ptrt.inr.tn taentt"
In their^itry into a country, during their residem«
In it. 'amrtheir return from it ; in a ward, during
who)e period irom the lime of Heir leaving
home, where they ,received tbeir mission, till their
returns thither again.” 3-K).
Ilf Rr*t, Vat. 3, Ckt !, He:. 'P
Again“ Jfcrew where a minister is artkod by
the gpeyrirnicnt toleuvv a country, such order does
not deprive him of log pnHlirk character.so long ..s
ha is permitted to eem tin within the country. And
II I eortVeiiirnt litns is allowed him to depart, his
pnbt'cb character is totbe respected isasil such <i*
portore* Id. S3$.
‘ Mr. Jarksun. however, has not yrt been ordered
|o leave the country.
If then we possess a proper degree of self respect,
emkwish to L* ranked with the polished nations nl
JUfenpej’^O ntdst On our own account, pay .1 due rr
' p itrif-lAs *gii custom*, end conform to
accordingly. Ml, Jackson is us much the re
Itatl’re,of Ids sovereign as be ever was, and so
, IS tn be i%gi>sd«i.
.While rut this in pick it may not be amiss to note
•n incorieet expression as applied to the rupture
wVtb Mr. Jackson, which has inadvertently crept
tnlb oil public k pr>ins without exception, 1 believe
my own tiwiwd*^ It consists in calling the tup
tor* 0 We have seen that u fiirmtstf’n
^ could not be ^ nor government not having the
foyttr to ditrj'.u nay ambassador.—S.JT. Ivc. Pott.
The author of Pihi.o-Laqs ha*changed his rig.
an to that triikhi appears at the end of ike fol
I* lit tyirit if Seventy *Mtr.
Sri? ?-•;. ■
;nsm or tme vritid states.
K»r h»
g^v
HrofFrance (a transient iaterval dur
iofthe last of the Dcurhons excepted)
ShoMw- universal monarchy since the
•. The intolerant* bigotry of that
b&ifiedud tyrant; the beastly
RtRStaiir ! the overgrown privtie
fcfMl clergy ; hut above all, the
"f n(-William of Haswu and the
Wy oTa few great men, who front
' #S®*nre«l Protestant i'.uiope,
them forth { aided by the free and
I# and enterprising genius of the
#» P*,'Pir. omtrihotcd for more
Mittruel |he ternoradous phtai
i, attd p never re the Independence
S Is on Inherent poser in the
kfc under tii# sorst ouavgement
alir*v>'fendcred it foemtd-.Me t<>
world. A few yean hare sufficed
•nfth after the most disastrous
dsrMitiy of the anil, the exuber
Snlue of the people,
tort. Such the Kali*,
17 that he wh<> directs
niiHtsl*
ccuiid<re<l as the most
T Mthum of the earth
mWfymy of England,
id, seems to have been
ft people and a Mes.inr
t*
at heroes totter*
»*
*d
j$*»«rk« of the Kraut fortress of human Hi
berty Were dismantled, the citadel alone w*a left ;
it was left in the stout heart* and free insHtetfowt, of
the people of these state*—*fir» altera gentium—the
germ of future resistance—-to that aspiring domini
on through whose aid our independence'had been e
itabluhed. It was reserved for the sagacity of
Washington todiscerir through the honest prejudices
of that glorious revolution which has immortalised
his name, in spite of the animosities engendered dur
ing a long and cruel civil war, that it ceukl never lie
the interest of the United States to swell die power
(>f France, even hy destroying th it of a jealous and
{wwerful maritime rival. But Washington was a
•oldier and a tialetman : Ah policy was enlarged
and liberal s it looked to futurity ; to great and per
manent consequences : it was not the paltry make
shift of the day—In earlier life he had liorne arms
to repel the encroachments of France on our wes
tern frontier : he justly abhorred the jackxlls of «
French despot, rlnathed in the fleece of rcpabiicsn
ism, who to suit their own wicked end* would fain
represent that he was then a slave ; and he equally
pitied the folly of those who could be deluded by so
barefaced a chcit. He knew that he had foucht for
lila-i-ty and hil country, in both the wsrs in which ha
was engaged ; and although he detested the corrup
tions of the Uriti-hgovernment and opposed them at
the hr Sard of his life and fortune, he well knew how
to estimate the patriotism of those, who, for consci
ence nuke have become tha advocates ci' the most
worthless military despotism in the world, because
f»r*o')tA they cannot endure a government vi'h a
king at the head of it. The freedom of speech and
nt the press, the protection of property, of personal
liberty and of honest f ime ; the trial by jury, sub
si-ting (if we compare the prosecutions of Horn*
1 o«ke and Hardy with these of Fries and Callender,
and Mattheuf Lyon) almoei in a great purity as »
■nungourselves—all this and much more is lost mi
our executive patriots—because “ Mo r decs i tliv
Jew way tit at the king's gate !" To a president
pressing regal powers, anil a priucely revenue,
and living in a palace that would put poor old St.
J.:inch's or even Buckingham-House to the blush ;
through whose triumphal gates of marble Jew* and
infidels daily pass exulting, these worthy gentlemen
can see no objection ; they are even ready to em
power him to legislate i>y proclamation ; hut the
chief magistrate precisely to their taste is an em/tc
rour and a king, whose decrees from his imperial
Camp, like the dread behests of Attila and Zingis,
affect not his own subjects merely, but the world and
posterity-—11 would seem that although a king, per
is the must uoy.ir.us of all animals in political
* oology, set combine him with an emperor and you
neutralize all his ill qualities. This reminds me su
forcibly of an old anecdote which came under my
own knowledge, ar.d which it not impertinent to the
pretent subject, that I cannot resist the temptation
of relating it. For,* liule while then we will lay a
side the dignity which belongs to our subject-a ml
particularly to hint to whom it is addressed. A .fe
deralist, in the presence of the writer of this essay
was not inngagb r firoachtd, by a democrat, “ vi:A
the attachment uf ail the aid twit* to hi* party."
1 he federalist tu my great surprise (.for 1 have no very
high opinion of the candour of these gentlemen)
fiankiy annulled that the gi-eater nunvier of the
old lories did support federal men and measures,
but that he mu-i be allowed to claim the benefit ot
some exieptioris. Amo;!g uibers of his political ge
nus be instanced a Mr. C. seeded of having cun
ducted the British in Philadelphia, but (iiethatasit
might) iuliy com feted of old lory ism, who had figur
ed in the rank- < f republicanism ami obtained pre
ferment under the great apostle of that iatlli, ,V»r. 1.
Maw, sir,said he, wrtb great nonchalame, “ it is lit
proof that the objection of your party is not in old
toryisui, puie Hud ;msi phistiCated,but to oldtoryistn
ti/mbim d ituth /rderdtim, which (in your opinion, i
suppose) givesactivity to its virus. Decompose the
mixture and separate the federalism from the old
lory mu, and (as in the case of Mr. C.) this last be
comes in your judgment de-piived at once of ail its
acrimony.” There was something I suppose in this
retort, nut calculated to provoke a reply : certain it
is, however it received none.
vvHsiisngt- n I nave said was a soldier and a states
man—bred in camps ami senates in the great school
of mankind. To life misfortune of his country he
was succeeded by two gentlemen of the bar, it pro
fession of which it has been justly remarked, that it
lms m greater tendency to whet the ingenuity, thsn
to liberalise the understanding or to enlarge the
heart. One of them at a very late period of lus
life having served an apprenticeship to the trade of
a courtier at St. J.wnes's returned (whatever he may
now pretend, while striving to recommend his son
to office) a rank Knglishman. Weak minds receive
their opinions at second hand: great one’a impose
them. His successor having made his debut on ihe
theatre of the great world at the court of Versailles,
came home, in due season, id dress, taste, politicks,
phyiosophy and religion 5 in short, in every thine
but tha polish of his manners, a finished Frenchman.
Accordingly we find that Porcupine flourished under
the reign of the one, and Duane under that of the
other. Mr, Adams would no doubt readily shift off
Porcupine, nr hi* answer to the address of the bath
county militia, or Any other of bis infamous retainers
or ridiculous and wicked acts on the political estate of
your deceased friend Gen. Hamilton. Do not forget
I pray you, sir, that you yourself were one of the
faction whom that impotent garrulous dotard threat
ened to humble iu dust and ashes; that faction made
you secretary of state, and, by consequence, ' presi
dent. Discard, I beseech you, sir, from your coun
tenance and count il forever, either John, “ a prating
scribbling pair." Both father and son have no otlter
object but to sell their political “ notion*” in any
market they can find. The Russian embassy baa
too much the appearance of a reward for apostacy.
It llicks to something like an under-hand mission to
the great emperor, ihroueh the little one.
1 have said, sir, that I had found more to approve
than I had expected in the course of your adminis
tration. Among acts, however, of this description,
I cannot reckon the appointment to the first place
under yoer government of a inan notoriously incom
petent to the discharge of its duties; whose igno
rant e of the marine department on which he hung
for eight years; could be Squalled only by the profu
sion with which he outstripped the legal opproprl
atichs for its service : A man who received the sir
lary of the«rrretary hf thf navy, while the business
of tho depiM'imeht whs conducted, after a jotkion,
by his chief clerk. Bur die manner of his appoint
ment tu hi* present tdfie—the first act of your nd
mmhtratlotj Is calcuhtsd to wouod the feeling* of e
,very ImUirendeat American. They fceHkemselvee
tmy ts
WWW upon V
(&£» . _
hs in* dread father of that' itmy
m long «•«*• te«Us of his glory ir4
r*rtia»ed the land of bis birth ; lhi«yccreant, unwer
i thy'tn l*e halted hfsfellow.soldkr, vmght shelter iff
obscurity anddarkness ; but when the sun of our
country's glory had descended helew the horizon ;
> in the political twilight that foretold the darkness of
I the night to come, the speculative parricide, (with
many an obscene animal that ahuus the day) crept
< forth from his hiding place.
I This minion of France who (from ids insolent
pamphlet in mockery of the distress of the Ameri
can merchants roWieil under coulour of the Louisia
na convention) appears to have studied his art of
love, as well as his politicks in the school ofCamba
ceres,* is unworthy to be your representative, l^et
him be turned nut of the stye of sensuality in whose
“ vile mire he now wallow*." Ship Wilkinson (if
he will bear the sea sweat) to his friends in Cttba.
Send Wade Hampton back to his cotton gins and.
tan-vats. Let him enjoy if he can under the tenure
by which he bolds, his miserable wealth ; or kt him
“ riven and Wasted by ihe lightningarf eloquence,”
pav to the offended majesty of virtue the dread hum*
age of his remorse. Strip, sir, the epaulets of an
American officer from shoulders branded by the
scourge of the publick executioner. Tear the cock
ade from the hat of every scoundrel in the army, if
you can find honest men tn accept their commissions.
Suffer no m.>n holding an office under you, to abuse
it by any attempt to influence the freedom of electi
ons. Let not the government labour under the
odium of supporting notorious swindlers and black
legs, against men of the fairest character and pre
tensions ; against men of honour and science ; a
gainst the orphan sons of heroes who sealed their at
tachment to their country with their blood ; whose
children, in gratitude for their father’s services,
have been educated ut the puhlirlc charge. 1 know,
sir, that you have a difficult part to act. The re
jection of the treaty negotiated by Messrs. Monroe
and Pinkney, and more especially the manner of
that rejection, has greatly enhanced the difficulty of
an accommodation of our differences with England.
I lie pride ol the two governments, ana wt tne taro
cotin:riea has been roused : but it is essential to the
interests and (1 might add) the existence of both,
that they remain at pence. Far be it from me to
palliate, much less to justify the misconduct of the
British ministry ; but let me remind you, sir, that
the sentiment of hostility against America, engen
dered in that country by the revolution, wasconfiued
to the king and his ministers, and the vuhures that
prey on the vitals of every state ; and that it is our
interest that it should not be transfused (us assuredly
it must be if «ve take part with France against
whom they are contending for their very existence)
into the breast of every honest l'lnglishrr.an Whilst
wc are lighting tior our own liberties we had the
good wishes of the majority of the Knglish nation ;
but the case is changed when their own existence is
put at stake.
You are advanced in life sir, and yon are child
less. An honourable fume courts your acceptance,
i'he interest of your country coincides with the ease
of your administration. The people look in vain in
to tbc correspondence of Mr. Jackson for the outra
ges which he is allcdgcd to have committed on the
dignity of their government. They will support you
in every proper exertion of spirit. They have begp
equally disgusted with the rashness of oue, and with
the meauness of another of your predecessors: but
they will not be driven, even by then- most honest
prejudices, into the arms of France, whose touch is
pollution, and whose embrace is death. Your mi
nister of finance has told you, that (.invasion out ot
the question) war is impossible. This extraordina
ry man although “ fallen front his high estate j" al
though he h is lent his trauscendant anilities to the
arbitrary and unconstitutional acts of the last reign,
and to the insidious and cove, t attack made at the
last session of congress on the sinking fund, that best
hope of the ration—is yet “ not less than archangel
ruined.” tie is indeed no longer, “ the apostle of
truth ami the favourite votary of liberty,” inimorta
liced by the pen of Curtius—Quantum matutu• ab
ilia"—but he is yet an intelligent if not a vigorous
statesman— versed m expedients and wiles, and up
on him you must rely for whatsoever of wisdom and
ability you may look for in the counsel* of your cabi
net. “ For” when the waters are out, and the file
afford* no precedent, you will turn your eyes in
vaiu, towards the Giles's ant. the Smith's, and the
V*rn*in’a, and that whole U ibe of ignorance, initic
cihty and Impudence, whom the first swell ot the
g.'eat stream ot' public it opinion will sweep back into
their native insignificance, never to rise again.
Such is the intuiuuted predilection of many of our
leading rrjuti/icmn* who give the tone to public sen
timent, far despotic France, and so strong the ho
nest revolutionary antipathies of our people against
Great Britain ; fortified, too,by a just sense of re.
cent wrong from that proud and haughty nation ;
that I am prepared to be represented by our dema
gogues, and to be considered by many of the honest,
unsuspecting dupes of these impostors, aw the parti
san of England rather than the fnend of my native
Country. No man is more sensible than myself of
the violence, injustice, and folly of her government ;
but I consider the existence of my country (at ieast
of all that can render a country dear to a free man)
to rest upon her independence. She is now pay nig
the price of her owh sins : her corruption and tyran
ny produced the American revolution, the immedi
ate cause of that of France, from which, again, the
present gigantic power of Buonaparte bus sprung. Her
proscriptions and oppressions have driven from their
country thousands ot the brave inhabitants of Ireland,
In each of whom sheh.es made a deadly{encmy. Nut
only is the continent of Europe united against her;
in the other hemisphere site has converted six mil
lions of her own progeny into determined foes. No
thing is faf-ther from my wish than to produce a rup
ture with France t such an event could be produc
tive of no possible good. It is the interest of the U.
States to be at peace with all nations, but with Eng
land more especially. We have the same interest
in her preservation against France, now, that we
had twelve years ago, in the preservation of France
against the combined powers. But oar interest (it
may he said) is contingent and remote ; that of Eng
land immediate and certain ; and if she will not lew*
* The American reader may form some idea of
the state of society in 1’arU, when he is told that the
prince arch-chancellor of the empire, the duke of
Parma of the present day, is so notoriously addicted
to unnatural lusts, that a pretty youth, who frequent,
ed the TtpUim a fear years ego, was well, know a
throughout ,Paris, a* Maiame QttmbucercNor is
nsity confined totlm gr+nd dignite
Court, ijj^aijc^Tbe theatres ejd
_walks swarm with npJ.e prostitute* plying
custom ; soliciting their owjt ***** the commhg
Stony that enme-tnot to Hiapedawwigj" “*
pcmaf i
hSptyiinitii*.
itself st^T n*P£lM$tSi
MUmJber trtfnrih krer«*l
‘bwfcsr, every thfcg*
Common Sen**, teem?
tojft*
great rival states
, consideration,
jery wfefeTiceofmy^etry!
•tnrh invol. _
Beside* sir ; ! ]
„ « your candour, whether tho
crooked and
'«■ p-Hcy_ of your.j>rtdece»som
»•» not calculated to give BngletitW,
laalto) good ground to believe thit whuwwev mom*
did no*
dare to mingle in the danger* of the tuiftict, wean.
xi<H.»ly aw.ited her downfall, a„d omitted nofodL
rect subordinate measure that mightdead, a* we surf,
posed, to accelerate it. But when EneUnd does feft
she will fall like the stronv m.n .i-T.—T*
she will fall like the strong man in th&ertotur* ,h«
r'-al.em_bI*Ce_tbe P“,*r‘ nt »he SemplThS l
berty and human safety, and itsdestructionhie
the last effort of her desperate stren^J^ ; « ,
dum frritnt ruina /” Was it kn WtoeiOT
Sparta and of Athens instead of wasting themiUvea
in Uie fatal Pel..ponesian conflict, to husband their
strength for the common foe, because one of those
states were under a regal, and the other wider a -fZ
polar government ? Even the Greek colonies ef.fci*
Minor, although subject to the Persian monarch, re.
fused to rivet their claims by fending their ,V,t
imnn” C *** *5’“"st ,he P trent country.
It is impossible, sir, that a gentleman of vOv saga.
| city and political learning can for a moment be §e
. ceived by the cant of « the liberty the teat end
! C,"Vrr.i,,raC?' he!d out b> dictator of Eurwpw
i 1? dcllKle,lhemultitude both at home and abroad!*^
I?“r!. ^WeUaT“inM WIth scantiness Q
our resources; witfethe Inherent weak.es, ,C
W,‘,Ch >°u P«Me; <md with th*
powers of French intrigue, and French arms, not t*
know how dangerous oor situation must become.
- -- „ «.>uciucik.<l a P'irty could h*
formed to abjure their allnmre to the United States'
and placed themselves under the protection of a go
vernment at once odious for its despotism and despt.
cable for its imbecility, what effects may -e notei.
pect from the h rench spirit of prnselytitm apertiinfe
in the same country ? Fins it restored the ton# tT
publick morals ? Do you suppose, sir, to see theelifef
agent of that conspiracy, loaded with caresses, end
favours of a more substantial nature bv the govern
ment of hi* betrayed couotjy > Would the sternnes, r
ol his republican virtue revolt at the tordon of the
legion of honour, or the investiture of the grand de.
chy of Or cans ? Or would the new duke efface from
«ur recollection the turpitude and bestialitr of hie
worthy prototype, the last duke who bore that title t
Think you, sir, that the republican simplicity of ge
neral Smith would be startled at a proposition to
nuke him a grind dignitary of the turn America's *
or tb.it the modesty of Mr. Giles would refuse *o cut
in for thee new honours? In the number of amdi.
cant, by whom you are beset for office, you h.vT* <
tolerably good barometer by which to calculate the
pressure upon the French prefecture fdr similar fa
vour*. Recollect that the population ot Louisiana, of
,ne u<rt °Kthe M,ss,ssiPP'> » French, and that (take
the British navy out oi the w*v) yen hold New Or- *
eans and the navigation of the Mississippi bv nobeW,
ter tenure than that by which the Dutch held Foe*
Lillo and the Scheldt. France, become mistress of
the t cean, can take it when she ples.ses, nnd boM it
as long as site pleases. What force haye we to ep.
pose to her ? Long proclamations and scanty levies?
\ou, I am sore, sir, have too great an insight hit*
the nature of man and the constitution of thine* ta
Aicnvc mui n cnm.ort rrom the leollection oTthe di*.
play of fiatrmum and energy which tlefcafinl the
conspiracy ot col. Bui r, after it had defeated itselL ,
1 blush tor my country when I hear it stated m mat
tev ot exultation timt a needy and profligate «dven
turcr has been unable with his single arm to overturn
all our institutions and plare himself at the head ot
the state, us a tave-n hully would take the head of the
puolick table. ' '
in that transaction in whatsoever light I vfcwlfel
can find no matter for publick congraiulationr^IiNtd
origin, its conduct, and its consequences all it bsse,
humiliating, and revolting. To crush a single « mil
cream the constitution is heaved from it* vtlrv foou. ’
dution: Pehon is heaped upon Ossa; the right* of
every man in society are invaded, and yet the criraif
uul escapes . But enough and more than enough of
this miserable wretch. “
AVihough the publick expectation ha* not beet»
gratified by your administration, yet, you have hi.
tberto done nothing which may not be retrieved! Ley
aside the involved, ambiguous »tyl$ in which yoinp
predecessor has deemed it expedient to clothe hi*
dark designs. “ 1 acitus” (it has been well remark.'
cd) “ some where observes of Tiberius, that hie
speeches to the senate, by the involution* n
style, at once betrated the character of theh
thor ; and seemed to shadow out the picture of h._
cautious, dark and crooked policy.” Come forward
to the uaiion, and in plain and manly language, such
as they c*d understand without the aid of a commefc
t.iry, exercise the function* devolved upon voU hw -
the constitution. Neither shfink from the resnonsi.
bdity with which it invest* "
high office by paltry intrigues *fth thr'iegisUtliW*.
One us your naked, unbiassed opinion «m tho state
of our affiirs : 1 ell us honektly what we nave to ex
pect. Uo your duty; and be it at their own peril
it congress fail in tlieir’s. If it be ueccaaarw
to express an opinion of the conduct of the'
court of St. James's, or its ambassadour let It
aot be done in the language of the tourtof St.
Oi/m a. Above all save us from the fang* of France.
Leave u* not to curse revolution itself; for Which
we shall have paid too dear a price, if we purchase
a few years ot independence at the expense af an
age, pet haps ,j8n eternity of bondage. Can m an.
ticipate tor your country and for the world, the
dark, and horrid night of despotism which*- succeeded
to the usurpation ot Octaviaus, and.not sicken tt the
prospect I When the wretched victim Could had ne
refuge within the haunts of cfrflhed man frtortThi* 1
oppressor . W hen the human mind itttlCuuok, m* ,
der the narcotic powers of despotishi fT
• iic I>UM, YHtions which i hare deemed it my doty
to submit to you, and through yon to the puWfc "
been lustily thrown together under circuott
not the most propitious to successful
write—or dictate rather f for without tlte life
tnuDuensii I should be unable to address yowl under wi
the pressure of disease, when the operations of thfe
mind are, of necessity, slow and painfut; and I an|' *
not unconscious of that obscurity and feebleness,
which in my present aituation I am unable to remedy.
Under other circumstances, 1 flatter myaelf.tiiat thi*
address would have been less unworthy of ysfcir at- 1
tention. I write however neither to ac ’ '
nor to gratify spleen ; but to serve my
am prepared for imputations of foreigi
auil attachments. Every Ussiest m*n, ,
attempted to arrest the mad career of m
MaivuUo, was stigmatised** thw«Ho«*-eirt i
J hope, sir, that yauJhad «hfe|honou<-to l
OttUdaMM
to conduit* fn I
-Stly reco-nmend __ _
' *■ n matter of perfect iwJifflfcf*
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