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where the points necessary to be decided 

 were doubted by the best lawyers in 

 England. If I may be allowed to give my 

 opinionj if the Americans citizens want any 

 thing as a nation, it is honour. I made a 

 remark in General Washington's life, in 

 that part where he was sent by the British 

 to settle contracts with the Indians. The 

 Indians mention Englishmen as their fa- 

 thers, and say, that, when they came to 

 obtain lands from them, they acted with 

 honour : they always paid them for what 

 they took. But the French seized what 

 they wanted, and said it was their own, 

 and gave them no reward. When I noticed 

 this to my friend Mr, Boadley, he said it 

 was very true ; that England had always, 

 in every concern of business as a nation, 

 kept her honour, and was the only nation 

 that had done so : nor did he know any 

 people more able to judge than the In- 

 dians. The Indians in their features have 

 the marks of sensible and warlike men. 

 The reader will perhaps be pleased with 

 the remark which an Indian made to a 



