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botany, as would be most useful to such a country 

 as ours, and at the same time be gratifying to the 

 botanists of England. 



With a high degree of respect, 

 I am yours, &c. 



Benjamin Wateriiouse. 



From Mrs. Cohbold*. 



My dear Sir, Ipswich, March 2 G, 1812. 



The pleasure I received from those lines which 

 you showed me of Mrs. Barbauld's on the King's 

 illness induced me to order her pamphlet']" of 181 1, 

 which I have read with much attention, and, I must 

 add, much feeling. It is in a high strain of poetry, 

 and possesses a fire of genius and force of language 

 which T should not have expected from her ad- 

 vanced age and what I had seen of her earlier pro- 

 ductions ; but if I were offered the powers of genius, 

 together with the feelings manifested in that poem, 

 I would reject the combination as a dangerous and 

 deadly gift. It yet remains for the world (I would 

 say a world of false philosophers, were that race 

 not sinking fast into oblivion,) to invent a word so 

 monstrous as to express hatred of one's country, 

 and exaltation of her rivals ! Could such a passion 

 have a name, I should say this is the ruling one of 



* This accomplished lady is the author of some very beauti- 

 ful and appropriate verses on the death of Francesco Borone, 

 which were published by Sir James in his volume of Tracts, in 

 1798. 



t Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, a poem. 



