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doubt of matters being brought to such a crisis as 

 will enable me to see clearly what course to steer. 

 My fears are not at what you think will happen in 

 America: it is my own much-loved country that I 

 fear will be involved in the anarchy you speak of; 

 for I think there is not virtue enough left in the 

 country gentlemen to prevent it. I cannot hope for 

 anything good from the violent on either side; 

 that can only be expected from (I hope) the great 

 majority of moderate men stepping manfully for- 

 ward to check the despotism of the one party and 

 the licentiousness of the other. A reform of abuses, 

 in my opinion, is wanted, and I wish that could 

 be done with justice and moderation; but it is 

 because I do not hope or expect that will take 

 place in the way I wish it that makes me bend my 

 mind towards America. 



* WILLIAM BULMER TO THOMAS BEWICK. 



CLEVELAND Row, Dec. loth, 1795. 

 DEAR BEWICK 



The death of your Brother has hurt me 

 much I assure you. He was a young man whose 

 private virtues & professional talents I equally 

 admired: so much so indeed, that as a grateful 

 tribute to his memory, I have this day clothed 

 myself in mourning. His death has affected me 

 in a manner that has much depressed my spirits. 

 If my opinion or assistance in your intended record 

 of his merits on the melancholy tombstone that is 

 intended to mark the place of his interment can be 

 of any use, I beg you will command me. 



