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envoyees par un ami je suppose que la trachiction est exacte ; nean- 

 moins, je vous avouerai, monsieur, que la derniere phrase de I'avaiit 

 dernier a linea de I'epitre dedicatoire ne me laisse pas sans inquietude, 

 puis qu'elle est loin de rendre la sens de I'orignal qui a la verite est 

 pen important dans ce passage. J'ai I'honneur d'etre, monsieur, votre 

 tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur, La Rochefoucauld-Lian- 

 COURT. Hamburg, Septembre 22, [1799], chez Mess. Mattmessen, 

 Salem et Cie." Outside, it is addressed in English, " To H. ISTeu- 

 man, Esq., at R. Phillips', No 71 St. Paul's Churchyard, London;" 

 and the stamp is "Foreign Office, October 1, 1799." 



What Mr. Keuman's rejoinder was I am not able to report. The 

 Travels were published in English, first in the quarto form and then 

 in the octavo. I do not see that the translator made any alteration 

 in his language in the second issue. The duke takes for granted, it 

 will be observed, that the translator in his preface alluded to the 

 account given of the policy of the Governor of Upper Canada in rela- 

 tion to the United States, and doubtless he was right in his conjec- 

 ture. It will be proper, however, to mention that the duke in that 

 portion of his narrative guarded himself against a possible charge of 

 breach of faith. After speaking of the persistent hostility of the 

 Governor against the newly established rej)ublic, and of his intention 

 to employ the Indians in any future war with that power, he adds : 

 " I should not have credited these projects had I heard them stated 

 by any individual but the governor himself; nor should I have 

 ventured to introduce them here, but that, within my knowledge, he 

 has repeatedly communicated them to several other persons." The 

 translator may also have had in view what the duke reports of the 

 sentiments of some military men with whom he dined at Kingston. 

 Amongst these gentlemen, he says, " The general opinion in regard 

 to Canada is, that this country proves at present very burdensome to 

 England, and will be still more so in future ; and that, of consequence, 

 Great Britain would consult her true interest much better by declar- 

 ing Canada an independent country than by preserving it an English 

 colony at so enormous an expense. The Canadians say they will 

 never be sincerely attached to England, so that if in time of war a 

 militia were raised, not half of them would take up arms against 

 America [he means to say the United States], and none perhaps 

 against France. The British Government commits, therefore, in their 

 opinion, a gross error in expending- such vast sums in attempting to 



