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APPENDIX B. 



ter on the disposition of the people of England towards the 

 * United States was written before, and not in anticipation of the 

 coming of Kossuth to this country. The general discussion of the sub 

 ject which that event has occasioned makes it proper for me to men 

 tion this. Opinions opposing the views I have presented having been 

 expressed by several persons in honorable positions, for one at least of 

 whom I entertain the highest respect, I wish to repeat that, during five 

 months that I travelled in Great Britain, in almost every day of which 

 time I heard the United States talked about with every appearance of 

 candor and honesty, I do not recollect ever to have heard any expres 

 sion of hostile feeling (except from a few physical- force Chartists, with 

 regard to slavery) towards our government or our people, and only 

 from a few stanch church-and-state men against our principles of gov 

 ernment. Perhaps the highest eulogy on Washington ever put in 

 words was written by Lord Brougham. The Duke of &quot;Wellington 

 lately took part in a banquet in honour of American independence. I 

 myself attended a Fourth-of-July dinner in an old palace of George III., 

 and saw there a member of Parliament, and other distinguished English 

 men, drink to the memory of &quot;Washington, and in honour of the day. 

 Having observed that Mr. Howard was threatened with a mob, for 

 keeping an English ensign flying from a corner of the Irving House, I 

 will add that I more than once saw the American ensign so displayed 

 in England, without exciting remark ; and I know one gentleman living 

 in the country who regularly sets it over his house on the Fourth of 

 July, and salutes it with gun-firing and festivities, so that the day is 

 well known, and kindly regarded by all his neighbours, as &quot; the Ameri- 

 an holiday.&quot; 



