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furnifh a ftriklng inftance of this obfervation. The fentiments 
of this nobleman, openly avowed when it no longer ferved 
his purpofe to conceal them, may be confidered as thofe of a 
very great number of the French emigrants; and it is lefs 
a fubjed of w^onder that fuch fhould be their fentiments, than 
that men (hould be credulous enough to think them otherwife. 
In the publication of Liancourt, we perceive the national anti- 
pathy burfl forth in almoft every page, amidft an apparent in- 
clination, on the part of the individual, to be grateful for ac- 
knowledged benefits and multiplied civilities. But it is evident 
that his feelings of abhorrence for the crimes of the French 
revolution are not more ftrong than thofe of envy and hatred 
at the fuccelfes and profperity of the Britifh nation. One paf- 
fage, in the noble author, is fo remarkable, that I am tempted 
to extra(ft it. 
" Je fuis embarralTe de me rendre compte a mol-meme des 
" differens fentiments qui m'opprimaient et m'empechaient de 
" me livrer entierement a la reconnailTance et a la douceur qui 
" en refulte. J'aime les Anglais plus peut-etre qu'aucun Fran- 
" 9ais ne les aime ; j'en ai toujours ete tres-bien traite ; j'ai 
*' des amis parmi eux ; je reconnais a ce peuple beaucoup de 
" grandes qualitcs et de talens. Je hais les crimes infames 
" dont la revolution Franyaife a ete fouille', que m'ont d'ailleurs 
" enleve des objets cheris a mon affeQion et a men eftime ; 
** je fuis banni de France, mes biens font confifque's ; je fuis 
" traite' par le gouvernement de mon pays comme fi j'etais \m 
** criminel ou un mauvais citoyen ; fe'pare de tout ce qui 
" m'eft cher, Roberfpierre et les autres brigands par qui ma 
" nation 
