This sudden journey will deprive me of much anticipated pleasure in seeing you and Buckminster at Quincy. Why were you not at the Exhibition? I heard much of Allston's poem before I received your letter. Brigadier General Wilkinson, whose station is at the Natches, was present, and much delighted with the poem. Bisset I shall leave with Mr. Greenleaf for you. You may lend it to Sawyer and then Buckminster. You will take care of it, so that it may be returned to me in the Spring, safe and sound. You will find it interesting and instructive. It is somewhat in the manner of Boswell's Life of Johnson. It contains a judicious selection of anecdotes and beautiful extracts from the

works of an excellent man. A principal object of it is, to show that Burke was consistent through life. This, I think, is clearly done. He was never one of the many who oppose a system to-day, which they supported yesterday. He was invariably true and constantly just. The decision of the British Admiralty Court does not clash with the President's instructions. These were given to our public armed ships, (not private ones,) immediately after the British Captain Loring, formerly a tory on Jamaica Plains, went on board of the Baltimore, a public armed vessel, Captain Phillips, and impressed a number of her men. On this occasion, the President ordered, that no such procedure be allowed by American commanders; that if able to repel force, to do it, but if not, to surrender their ships with the crews. Great changes, I agree with you, are taking place in Europe. France will be humbled

in the dust. Her philosophy has addressed the nations of Europe, as sleep did Palinurus. Like him, some of them listened and slept the sleep of death. But others of them are vigilant and active, and she must fall before their combined power.

"Do you know that attempts are making in Europe to restore the Society of the Jesuits? It is a fact. An Abbe Broglis and an Italian Count are at the head of the project. They are likewise encouraged by the Emperor of Russia. He favors one of their associations, established at Mohillo. What can be his object, is hard to tell."

CHAPTER IV.

Restoration of the Jesuits-Envoys to France-Death of Washington-Disposition of his Estate-Portfolio-Bonaparte-Cause of the French Revolution Statue for Washington-Mungo Park -Reasons for an Army-City of Washington.

1799. Oct. 3. Walter in Boston to Shaw at Trenton,1 N. J. "I went to Russell and got Canning's speech. I like it much; but it has little of Chatham, and still less of Burke. He talks well on the miseries of the conquered countries, and displays a picture, sketched by the pencil of truth, which is really interesting. His style of eloquence is forcible, but harsh and rugged. He is, however, excellent as a young man, and will, no doubt, be an ornament to the House. Samuel Dexter thinks highly of him.

"The re-establishment of the Jesuits is indeed extraordinary. I don't want the existence of this Society. It is, in principle, as bad as the Illuminati. You know that Russell, in his Modern Europe, says, it was evident from their books and papers, that they intended the destruction of all (Protestant) institutions. I have been reading Wieland's Oberon,

'The Executive authorities of the United States appear to have convened here because of the yellow fever at Philadelphia.

translated by Southey. The tale is extremely interesting, and the descriptions most luxuriant."

Oct. 23. T. B. Adams, at Germantown, Penn., to Shaw at Trenton, N. J. "I have been anxious, for some days, on account of reports, which have been circulated with great zeal and industry, of a serious misunderstanding in the cabinet at Trenton. The story is, that the Secretary of State opposed, with all his influence, the departure of the envoys for France; that his opposition was seconded by a declaration of the British Minister, that a fresh attempt at negotiation by our government, would be considered by the Coalesced Powers, as an act of hostility against them, since they had come to a resolution to force a declaration from every neutral Power, for or against them; that the President is said to have replied with characteristic energy to this communication; that the Secretary persevered in his disaffection, which produced a warm explanation, in the course of which the President declared he would resign, rather than submit to be influenced by the menaces of any other Power on earth, as to the subject of our external connections, or intercourse; and that the envoys, of course, are to go Since the triumph of jacobinism in this State, ther is a manifest scheme set on foot, of irritating the public mind against Great Britain. I see the drift of it in part, but I should wish to know what fresh provocation has excited the animosity, which thus discovers itself. McKean, Governor of the State, Jefferson, President of the United States, is the next object of that party."

Oct. 31. Walter in Boston to Shaw at Trenton, N. J. "We yesterday celebrated your uncle's birth with every demonstration of joy. Governor Gill reviewed the troops on the Common. He gave a

dinner to all the officers. I don't know whether I told you of Count Rumford's daughter being here. Her father is to come next Spring. He is much esteemed in London as a character of singular industry and minute philosophical accuracy, joined with great benevolence. He is attending entirely to his new Institution, which seems to be very successful. We are in anxious expectation of news from Europe. Things of great pith are in the wind. We do not like the conduct of the English towards many of our vessels. It is infamous and unjustifiable.

"Our envoys are to sail from Newport soon. We are anxious to know how they will be received at the Court of St. Cloud. I admire the discourses of Davila. They are rich in political truths."

Nov. 1. Samuel Ewing in Philadelphia to Shaw. "How pleasing to return after a long absence to your home, the scene of former joys; to return to it in peace and safety, while your ears are no more stunned by the solemn and incessant rattling of the hearse, nor your sensibility wounded by the groans of your dying neighbors!"

Nov. 3. William E. Channing in Richmond, Va., to Shaw in Trenton. "I want to talk with you a moment on the political world. If I mistake not, the present period is the most eventful and important which has offered itself to our view during