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drees, in a black gown, band and cassock; at all events 

 I believe he is not so much of a fanatic or fool as to be- 

 come a martyr, which would not prove his religion to 

 be true. I do not find that Grant returns thanks to his 

 Providence for preserving that old relick of superstition 

 to the present time : Grant says I told him at my house 

 that the methodists were kinder to me than the infidels, 

 this I deny: I told him that superstition had not eradicated 

 the humane feelings of all its votaries : that some of them 

 had visited me, and made me presents, they said they 

 knew my principles, but that I was a sober honest man, 

 as they were informed by their friends, and ought not 

 to be suffering for want of assistance. 



If myself and the reader can believe all that Grant has 

 said of his being introduced into the company of such a 

 variety of noble lords, dukes, and ladies. I think he 

 lo&t a good chance by not going to pay his address to the 

 king, surely such a trifling sum as twenty pounds for 

 equipment, was hardly worth a thought, whencompar- 

 with the honor of kissing his majesties hand, when it is, 

 probable he might have been dubbed a noble lord of the 

 bed chamber, a knight of the garter, or groom of the 

 stool, it would ha\e been a great curiosity to have seen 

 the dwarf before the Goliah of England, with his sword: 

 his majesty would have had no cause to fear of the sword 

 being weilded againt him ; Grant loves kings and priests, 

 too well to harm them. 1 must drop the subject, I am 

 tired myself, and shall tire the reader. Nature must 

 change her laws before I can become tory, and abandon 

 Republican principles, that I have ardently contended 

 for 50 years : a few more rising and setting suns, my 

 eyes will be closed in the cold and icy arms of death. 



