Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-02-02

it like the loss of brother" This piece
of pathos was doomed to be discounted.
DR.. Franklin, with an easy air, and col
lected countenance, bow, smile, and
all that naivete which sometimes appears
IN his conversation, and is often observed
in his writings replied. ''My Lord, we
will do our utmost endeayors to save your
lordship that notification Lord Howe
felt the full force and meaning of this but
ne only said, 'fI suppose you will endea-
yor to give us employment IN Europe -
Even in these few words implying the usu-
al contempt for the power of the Ameri-
cans themselves. The delegates said no.
thing to this. When his lordship said he
did not confer with them as members of
Congress, or anything but private persons
and British subjects, Adams broke into
one OF his passions, and said, 90 Your lord
ship may consider me in what light you
please, except that of British su6ject.-
Howe affected a cool superiority to the
patriot, and turning to Franklin and Rut-
ledge, spoke of Adams as if he was alb
sent" Mr.. Adams is decided charac-
ter" The conference ended by his lord
ship saying he was very sorry TO say that
nothing could be done in the way of re-
Cancellation.
MIR. Adams was afterwards informed in
England that Lord Howe had orders to
except from pardon fin case the Ameri-
cans submitted) several persons, one of
whom was himself Adams, in fact, had
the honor of being outlawed by name, by
the British government. Itwas a remar-
kable sort of retribution which brought
this angry Republican, John Adams, face
to face with George the Third, as the first
Ambassador from the free United States
Franklin, 1t IS said, purposely signed the
Treaty OF Paris in the very dress he wore
in the House of Lords when Wedder-
6urne abused him in that place. Perhaps
John Adams, in something of the same
naughty spirit desired that he should be
the first Minister of America in England
''W hen was a Minister Plenipotentiary
to the Court of st. James, the King and
the Ministry were often insulted, ridiculed
and reproached in the newspapers for ha-
wing conducted themselves with so much
folly as to be reduced to the humiIiating
necessity of receiving as an ambassador,
a man who stood recorded by the Privy
Council, rebel expressly exempted from
pardon" That interview with George
the Third was n rare and agitating one
The address delivered BY Adams was
conciliatory and dignifed, and was so
agreeable to the King, that in his very
rambling speech, or mode of speech, he
said ). a form of words in which we find
the lingering tone of superiority, which
comedies that the Americans knew how
to pay proper respect. Perhaps, after all,
the discomftted King spoke as fairly as
he could. Adams, in spite of his Repub-
lican philosophy, was somewhat touched,
and his voice faltered, and this, probably
gratified his Majesty, who might have ex
pected tiercer specimen of the justified
rebel. Adams appears to have forgiven
George; for. like DR.. johnson he has re-
corded his favorable opinion of the Kings
conversation. &C Let the insolent Peter
Pindar say what he WILL" he writes,-
His Majesty said as many things which
deserved to be remembered as any sage l
ever heard" Abiding to the foregoing
interview with Lord Howe, Mr.. Adams
says that during his stay in England, his
Lordship once, at ball, took occasion to
refer to their former conversation: ''At
a ball, on the Queens birth-night, 1 was
at loss for the seats assigned to the foreign
Ambassadors and their ladies. Fortu-
uately, meeting Lord Howe at the door,
l asked his Lordship where were the Am
bassadors' seats. His Lordship, with his
usual politeness, and an unusual smile of
good humor, pointed to the seats, and,
manifestly alluding to the interview on
Staten Island, said &" Ay now we must
turn You away among the foreigners i'
Considering the good cause Mr.. Adams
had to dislike England and the English,
we must conclude that his partiality to
the enlightened principles and policy of
the old mother contradistinction to those
of Republican France, must have procec-
ded from his honest judgment and a sense
of those commercial influences which
would most largely benefit his country
He saw that there could be very little
congeniaIity between the genius of Ame-
RIGA and the genius of France.