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Were the public to believe all that Grant has got 

 written, for I am sure that he never wrote either of the 

 books; and should any person doubt my assertion, if 

 they will call on me, I will prove to their satisfaction 

 that he neither did or could write them. But the writer 

 has written a great number of things that are not true. 

 If the public and myself could believe what is written 

 in the books, we might think that all England was on 

 tiptoe to behold such a wonderful character as the ce- 

 lebrated Grant Thorburn from America: when visiting 

 the Tower, he says, there was more shaking of hands 

 for ten minutes than has taken place there since the 

 days of King John and the Magna Charta, or the golden 

 days of Queen Bess ; first came the hard mailed glove 

 of the veteran of Waterloo, then the soft glove of the 

 ladies with hands as white and delicate as used to be 

 seen in the Tower in the days of Queen Bess. I should 

 think Lord Wellington was not very complaisant by not 

 taking off his glove, when shaking hands with such a 

 person as the seedsman from New York. I should wish 

 to know how Grant could discover the whiteness of the 

 ladies hands with their gloves on them : but we are told 

 that faith is the <-/idenceof thjngs not seen. I wonder 

 that Grant makes no mention of his seeing the Crown 

 in the Tower, an object which all lories adore; likewise 

 he says nothing of the wild beasts that are kept there, 

 although he represented the republicans as wild beasts 

 at the burning of Jay's Treaty. I rather wonder that 

 Grant should be attached to a King, Church, and Priest 

 Government, after being excommunicated for shaking 

 hands with the immortal Thomas Paine; but he, like 

 other superstitious fools, bows and trembles before kings 

 and priests, more than before God. 



