The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1817-07-16
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place my delay In answering, TO the account
OF indisposition and 10 business and excuse il.
have now thss letter before me and my
grandson, WHOM ycu muy formerly remcm-
Der littis scholsr .. Mr. Eiphinston's, pur- +,
posing q set cut, inp day or two, on visit
10 his father IN London, cit down to scrib.
Ole li,lle 10 your irst recommending him,
Ma'woyhy yoSog man, TO your eivili,ies and
counsclS
You press me much 70 come to England.
! aM not without strong Inducements TO do
soi the Eud ofa knowledge you promise 10
communicsle 10 p,es ia. an addition to them,
and no to,aN one. AZ prcssnt is 10 inpsAc-
ticable. Nut when my grandson returns
come whh him-- We will talk tho matter
over, and pethaps you may take me back with
you. hate bed 1t your service, and will
Try to make your residence, while you can
stay wilhus, as agreeable. to you, IL possible,
ss ] am spfc II will te TO me.
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You " fsirIy acknowledge that the late war
terminsted guile contrary 10 your expee,a-
,ion." vyut expectation was i'll founded
for yuu would not believe your old friend,
who told you repeatedly, that, Ly those mcss-
urcs, England would lose her colonies, as
Epiclctus warned in vain his master, that he
would break his leg YOU believed rather
the tales you heard Of our psi', oopc'y, and
impotence Of body and mind. DO you no,
remember the story you told nr OF the Scotch
sergcsu.sw WIN, me, with party Of ferry Anne.
ricnn soldiers. and though saonc, disarmed
them all aud brought them in p,isoners! A
ste'y al,sost as improbable as lhp, OF the Ir.
ishn.sn, who pretended 20 have alone taken
and brous hi in five of The enemy, by snrvoLn.
ding :hcm. Ard'yct, my friend, sensible und
jndicious as you are, but psr,akinG Of The
general insnuatioh, you seemed 10 believe u.
The word general, puts'me IN mind Of
Genersb your G:ncral Clsrkc, who had the
folly 70 ssy,fb my hearing, o, ST. John Prin-
giles thar with Thousand o .i,ish grenadicfs,
ne would undertake 10 60 from Que end OF
America 10 the otner, aud geld all he males,
parity byforcs, and par,iy by . little coaxing.
II Is plain he took Us Tor species OF eniinaIs
very little superior to hrulcs. The parIia-
mcnl 100, believed tic ssovies of anothcr fnol-
in geEeraI, fo~.,ct hiypsnrs'tisss ths Ian
KEGS noyor feh 6oii.--Yankce was 0ndetsteod
TO DC soIt OF Yaijoo, and the parliament did
not ihiok that the pciitioas OF such creatui cs
were dt 10 be- received anil resd in So wise sn
assembly. What was the consequence OF
this monstrous pride aud insoienes You
hest sent :smuii armies to subduc Us, brlicv-
ing thcm lDo,e than sufficient, bot sooa found
yourself obliged 10 send Etcateri these,
Whenever they endeavofcd 10 penetrate our
country beyond the protection of their ships,
were eiihcs repalsed spd obliged 10 scsr'per
oU,, os were surrounded, beaten, and taken
prisoners. An American planter, who had
never sceo iiu.ope, was chuscn by Us 10 COM
mand our troops, and continue d definy tho
whole war. This man sent homo 70 you, one
otter another, Ave Of your bcst genes ais baf-
0ed, ,he heads barc Of iaurcis, disg,sccd even
10 the opinion OF their employers. Your
cootempi Of oar crstand,ogs, IN compare
son WITH your osn, appeared 10 be not much
better founded than that OF our courage, II
VIC rosy Judge from this circumstance, ,hstis
Whatever ooort Of Europe Yankee Degoeia-
Tor appeared, The wise British ml0is.er wss
routed, 2ai 10 . passion, picked quasrcl with
your Gicnds and was scpt ten'e wi,ha slca 10
his ear. but afer oil, my dear friend do not
insgine that IL am vain eoougb 10 ascribe our
success 10 any superiority IN any of those
points. nm too we'll acquainted with all the
springs aud levers Of our machine, not to see
ths, oar human means were unequal to our
undertaking, and thst IL II had not been tor
the justice of our cause, and the consequent
in,erposisiou OF Providence in which we had
faith, We aputt have been ruined. IL had
ever before bsen an .Aiheis', l should now
have been convinced Of the being add govern
ment Of sDeiy! II 10 he who sbsscs thc
proud, aud fsvors the humble. May we ncv-
er forgcs his goodness 30 Us, and may our fu-
ture conduct fnsniies, oos ps,iudc
But Let 10 leave shess serious reflections,
and converse with orr usual pleasantly. !
remember your observing once 10 me, as we
sat togciher in the House Of Commons, that
no two journeymcn printers, within yoar
knosIsdye, had met with such success in the
world - ovrselvss--You were then q, the
head Of your proiession, and soon afterwards
became member Of p.rlisment. IVES sn
sysn, Tor few provinces, and now oct for
them all Bot We have risen by different
modes I, - . repuIiesn pfis.cr, sIwsys liked
form we'll planned down, being avefsc TO
those svsr6esriss letters thss holds their