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May we persevere in the path of verity and uprightness, that 

 our end may be happy, is the sincere desire of thy real friend, 



P. Collinson. 



I received my dear John's letter of July 3d. Assure him his 

 complaint is not founded on my neglect, for I have writ long letters 

 by every packet, and by the Carolina I sent him books, &c. 



I am concerned for the fatal effects of the rising of the Indians, 

 but the instructions that are gone over, I hope, will bring them 

 again into friendship. 



But, my dear John, I am sorry to say thou art of that unhappy 

 cast of mind there is no pleasing. 



Look into Pitt's peace, and see what a pitiful figure we should 

 have made, when he adopted Montcalm's boundary for our colo- 

 nies. As Pitt did it, and accepted it, and made it the foundation 

 of his peace it ivas glorious ! Pray look back and see what 

 slaughter and destruction the Cherokees made (when Pitt's British 

 glory was lost in Germany) on the back settlements of Carolina ; 

 but everything the turn-coat did, was glorious with my dear John ! 

 He heard all their cruelties, but did not then open his lips to com- 

 plain. Whilst Pitt was sacrificing thousands of the best British 

 heroes to his projects on the coast of France, to gratify his vanity 

 all was glorious ! 



My dear John, take heart and don't be carried away with 

 reports. Revive thy drooping spirits, and look forward and hope 

 for the best. 



I have thy charming blue Campanella in flower, six feet high, 

 branched on every side. Pray where was the identical spot it was 

 found? And the red or purple Ulmaria has flowered, a sweet, 

 pretty thing, and quite new. * * Pray how is the 



ulcer ? that affects me with true sympathy. I hope it is better, 

 as no mention is made of it. Grlorious Pitt so presides in my 

 dear John's mind, he is insensible to complaints, except on the 

 sorry peace that hath given so great an empire to Britain ! 



I am cordially thine, 



P. C0LLINS0N. 

 London, August 23d, 1763. 



