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one little ewe-lamb which lay in his bosom, 

 and was unto him as a daughter," our sympathy 

 with the sufferer is nearly as great, as if he had 

 been a monarch unjustly expelled from his do- 

 minions. I may well then be allowed to feel 

 acutely the attempt which has been made to 

 strip me of almost my only possession, to which 

 my title is founded upon paternal discipline and 

 personal suffering, and has been illustrated by 

 the whole tenor of my life. 



I was born, my Lord, in Charlestown, in 

 South Carolina, but my parents were from Scot- 

 land. My father, who was a man of observation 

 and a scholar, though a tradesman, had carried 

 with him those opinions respecting the kingly 

 branch of the British constitution, which in the 

 former state of our parties constituted Toryism ; 

 and the resistance they met with in a country, 

 the inhabitants of which were, from their situa- 

 tion, always somewhat inclined to republicanism, 

 served only to strengthen them. These opinions 

 he early endeavoured to impress upon myself* 

 To remove, however, every fear of my being 

 infected, from my companions, with the factious 

 and disloyal principles, which had very generally 

 pervaded the British Colonies in America, from 

 the conclusion of the peace of Paris, in 1763, 

 and to give me at the same time an opportunity 



