96 ON SOME ENGLISH HISTORIANS. May 25 



With the motl exalted fentiments of perfonal indepen- 

 dence and heroic lame, it was to vindicate the impor- 

 tance of his family, or the beauty of his miftrefs, that 

 the knight couched his lance, and rufhed into the field. 

 The rough, but manly features of the foul, difplayed 

 an interelHng dignity : The pafljons blazed into their 

 •wildeft effort ; and though reafon and humanity cannot' 

 always approve, the tear of fcnfibility attells that we 

 admire. 



To the Editor of the Bee. 



On Amerlcn. 

 Sir, 



As a foundation has been laid for an extenfive circu- 

 lation of your excellent journal, in the States of Noriii 

 America, and as I have for more than five and twenty 

 j'ears paft entered with iinccre good will into the in- 

 terefis and happintfs of tliat noble community, which 

 had the honour and refolution to obtain its freedom 

 from the tyranny of the parent fiate, I feel myfelf in- 

 clined to fulfil my good offices towards the good peo- 

 j)le of America, by inferting fuch papers in your ufe- 

 lul coUeAion as may prove of peculiar advantage to 

 our tranf-Atlantic children. With this view, I cannot 

 begin with a fentiment tliat afl'edls me more, or that 

 feems of equal importance, than that expreffcd by the 

 great Wafliington, when in the year 1789 he addrefs- 

 ed the Congrefs, on his accepting the fupreme magif- 

 tracy. " No people can be b«und to acknowledge and 

 adore the invifible hand which condufts the affairs of 

 men, more than the people of the united flates. Eve- 

 ry ftep by which they have advanced to the charader 

 of an independent nation, feems to have been diitin- 

 guiilied bv fame token of providential agency ; and in 



