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Contents: Richard I. and the Abbot of Boxley-The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sydney-King Henry IV. and Sir Arnold Savage-Southey and Porson- Oliver Cromwell and Walter Noble-Queen Elizabeth and CecilKing James I. and Isaac CasaubonBishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle-Peter Léopold and the Presi- This elaborate work is of the highest nadent Du Paty-Buonaparte and the tional interest; it embraces and discusses a President of the Senate-The Emperor multitude of great historical, biographical, Alexander and Capo d'Istria-Kos-religious and political questions, and throws ciusko and Poniatowski-Middleton national and universal importance.' — Litemuch light upon an era of almost unparalleled and Magliabecchi-Milton and An-rary Gazette. Complete in 3 vols. with Portraits, &c. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. PART II.-CONTINUED. LETTERS ON POLITICAL SUBJECTS. TO THE HON. JOSIAH QUINCY, ESQ. DEAR SIR, Passy, April 22, 1779. I received your very kind letter by Mr. Bradford, who appears a very sensible and amiable young gentleman, to whom I should with pleasure render any service here, upon your much respected recommendation; but I understand he returns immediately. It is with great sincerity I join you in acknowledging and admiring the dispensations of Providence in our favor. America has only to be thankful and persevere. God will finish his work, and establish their freedom; and the lovers of liberty will flock from all parts of Europe with their fortunes to participate with us of that freedom-as soon as peace is restored. I am exceedingly pleased with your account of the French politeness and civility, as it appeared among the officers and people of their fleet. They VOL. II. A have certainly advanced in those respects many degrees beyond the English. I find them here a most amiable nation to live with. The Spaniards are, by common opinion, supposed to be cruel, the English proud, the Scotch insolent, the Dutch avaricious, &c.; but I think the French have no national vice ascribed to them. They have some frivolities, but they are harmless. To dress their heads so that a hat cannot be put on them, and then wear their hats under their arms, and to fill their noses with tobacco, may be called follies perhaps, but they are not vices; they are only the effects of the tyranny of custom. In short, there is nothing wanting in the character of a Frenchman that belongs to that of an agreeable and worthy man. They have only some trifles, a surplus of which might be spared. Will you permit me, while I do them justice, to hint a little censure on our own country people? which I do in good-will, wishing the cause removed. You know the necessity we are under of supplies from Europe, and the difficulty we have at present in making returns. The interest bills would do a good deal towards purchasing arms, ammunition, clothing, sailcloth, and other necessaries for defence. Upon inquiry of those who present those bills to me for acceptance, what the money is to be laid out in, I find that most of it is for superfluities, and more than half of it for tea! How unhappily in this instance the folly of our people, and the avidity of our merchants, concur to weaken and impoverish our country! I formerly computed that we consumed before the war, in that single article, the value of 500,000l. sterling annually. Much of this was saved by stopping the use of it. I honored the vir tuous resolution of our women in foregoing that little gratification, and I lament that such virtue should be of so short duration! Five hundred thousand pounds sterling annually laid out in defending ourselves, or annoying our enemies, would have great effects. With what face can we ask aids and subsidies from our friends while we are wasting our own wealth in such prodigality? With great and sincere esteem, I am, &c. B. FRANKLIN. DAVID HARTLEY, ESQ. TO DR. FRANKLIN. MY DEAR FRIEND, London, April 22, 1779. The sentiments I have opened to you in my late letters for some months past, and which I have reduced in an enclosed paper, into a more specific shape, seem to me, upon very repeated reflection, to promise the fairest ground of good expectation. These propositions originate from myself, as a mediator: I have communications with both sides, but no authority to make proposals from either; and perhaps neither side, if I were to put the propositions separately to each (being myself unauthorised) might give me positive consent. Each side separately might say No, from what is called political prudence; and yet each side might secretly wish that the offer could be made, with a done first from the other party. I think the proposition of a truce for five or seven years, leaving all things in the present dispute in statu quo, must be advantageous to all parties, if it were only in consideration that a general satisfactory peace to all parties may come among the excellent effects of time given for cooling. We can but fight it out at last. War never comes too late; wis |