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seem to concur in the prophesy, may happen, but the fate 

 of war is uncertain, so consequently must be it's effects. I 

 shall be sorry if any step towards a conciliation is farther to 

 be made by the sword ; yet, from appearances, that bloody 

 negotiator will be used on both sides, unless terms are more 

 admissible or that a total separation should suddenly take 

 place. Your wishes & mine agree as to the end, but neither 

 have power to prescribe the means. Whatever may be the 

 final conclusion of this calamity ; I trust there will be none 

 to our friendship : mine for you must be lasting as it is founded 

 on a just & perfect esteem. HYDE. 



[Endorsed " To Mr. D. Barclay, Red Lyon Square."] 



XIV. [D. BARCLAY TO LORD HYDE] 



[1776] 



Indisposition having prevented me from waiting on my 

 Noble Friend this Morning as I much wished to do, to plead 

 once more the Cause of America & perhaps once more to take 

 the freedom of Entering my Protest in Grosvenor Street, 

 against the inimical Measures wch seem to be determined on 

 & which appear to me big with fatal Consequences ; & which 

 in my View is as clear as those that last year I but too Pro- 

 phetically foretold : my particular Object at present is, that 



if A n is so very imprudent as to persist in their intended 



hostile Measures to preserve this same Dignity (a word wch 

 I more & more wish was anhielated out of the English Language 

 since Justice is to have no Share therein,) I say if they will 

 obstinately persist, I am constrained to entreat that these 

 Measures may be made use of in terrorem only, & that the 

 Ministry wiU condescend to let some of the Friends of America 

 who are equally the Wellwishers of this Country to know 

 decisively what will satisfie, as to DIGNITY, & what Terms 

 Administration intend to grant to the Americans after they 

 have appeased the [Advocates, deleted] Devotees of Dignity, 

 for unless this Information goes to America by the same 

 Conveyance, as the hostile Orders, I think there is not the 

 least Prospect of any favorable Accounts from that side the 

 Atlantick, or any Comfortable view on this Side the Water 

 [My idea is that an admissible Plan should be considered, 

 deleted] I wish this Idea might be comunicated where it may 

 be of avail, & if thought rational a Plan of Pacification that 

 is likely to be acceded to on both Sides, might be consider'd, 

 in order to prevent the Evils wch otherwise must inevitably 

 ensue from the Distance of the discordant Parties. 



