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He has formed " son systeme," and conviction is labour in vain. But 

 the journalists who worship this servile foolerj' of the old republican, 

 should learn that Marquis Citizen-General Royalist Republican La 

 FayettCj might have found a grave of American clay long ago, if he had 

 felt so inclined, and that too of Bunker's Hill clay ; that the boasted 

 battle was a skirmish, and the supposed British defeat a British success ; 

 the hill having been stormed, the entrenchment taken at the point of 

 the bayonet, and the Americans sent to the right-about as fast as their 

 heels could carry them. The loss of life was severe on the British side, 

 for the hill was steep, and, during their eftbrts to ascend it, the troops 

 were exposed to the enemy's fire without the power of returning it. 

 But they were not to be repelled ; they at length reached the entrench- 

 ment, and at the firit charge the struggle was at an end. The heroic 

 La Fayette should send for a little supplemental earth or water from the 

 Brandywine Creek, where there was a baltle, and where he certainly 

 made no exception to the general flight of his fellow philosophers. 



These remarks we make in no invidious feeling to the Americans. 

 The angry recollections of the war have long died away. Other feelings 

 have followed, and the longer we are at peace with them, the better for 

 us both. But we have an undying scorn for the quacks and La Fayettes, 

 wherever they are to be found. The condemnation of meanness is a 

 tribute to common sense and manly feeling, and the sooner the Citizen 

 Royalist has to make use of his Bunker's-hill ban-el, the better ! 



We have uniformly declared ourselves friendly to every improvement 

 that can take place in the condition of the slaves in the British colonies, 

 and it is for tliis reason that we have as uniformly resisted the quack- 

 eries of pretended philanthropists on the subject. We know that all 

 improvement is hopeless unless the means proposed for it are seconded 

 and sustained by the good will of the planters themselves ; and equally 

 knowing that no laws can coerce a man into more than nominal obe- 

 dience in those matters, we have repelled, as injurious to the cause of 

 negro amelioration, all attempts to hurt the feelings of the planters, by 

 either stigmatizing their motives, or plundering their property. The 

 question is no longer of the slave trade — the question now is, whether 

 the West India islands shall be a source of strength to the British 

 empire in the face of a growing and jealous antagonist, or a source of 

 weakness. 'W^hether the colonists shall be sustained in their rights by 

 the laws which established those rights, or the negroes delivered to their 

 own ferocious violences, and the colonists massacred. If we wanted 

 additional grounds of suspicion in the conduct of those affected philan- 

 thropists, we should find it in the character of the individuals. Who 

 are they ? Do we find the established clergy, the leading cliaracters of 

 the bar, or otlier learned professions, or any of the honourable and long- 

 trusted personages of whose righteous zeal, knowledge, and attachment to 

 the constitution in church and state no doubt can be entertained, among 

 the supporters and pleaders of this cause? No, But v\e find the very 

 same names that for the last twenty years we have found foremost in 

 every vulgar attempt to unhinge the national feeling, the fellow-workers 

 of tavern Hunt and Tower Burdett, the Humes, the Macauleys, the 

 Broughams, the wliole race of radical clamourers, who are ready at all 

 seasons, and upon every subject, to make a tumult oti public questions. 

 With those are joined a feeble yet busy alliance of females, wandering 

 out of the decorous path of tlie sex, rambling and itinerating among 

 strangers of all unlucky descriptions, forming committees, taking secre- 



