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worse a name,) and of the various times 

 when their mind possibly recoiled at what 

 they were executing; and how their own 

 ambition, and the blind, unrelenting power 

 of system goaded them on, though they 

 then felt how easily those countries, whose 

 mutual enmity they kept up, might have 

 coalesced, and added to each other's happi- 

 ness and prosperity — such a detail of dark 

 and" crooked manoeuvres — so useful a testa- 

 ment politique, would almost atone for the 

 crimes which it recorded. With respect to 

 my confession, it may be said that, having 

 made it, I have little right to censure Mr. 

 Brown if he has committed the same errors. 

 I will not plead, what might well be alleged, 

 youth and inexperience ; the true plea, the 

 true distinction is, that he was a professor, 

 that he acted in a public capacity, and 

 that* therefore, every act of his is open to 

 public criticism ; nor will I so far under- 

 value what I have done, for the sake of 

 shewing in a stronger light what I ought 

 not to have undone, as not to allow that 

 many beauties have arisen from the change. 



