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" the French, to give credit to them, and to dare to congratu- 
** late us on fuch occafions, by afluring us that we fhall be 
** reftored to our pofleffions through Britlfh exertions — all 
** thefe fubjeds, the conftant theme of converfatlon, in which 
" the intention of my hofts always appear to be good, are ftill 
" more painful to me, as prudence requires me to conceal my 
" thoughts, for, in avowing them, one would certainly be 
" confidered as a fool in the eyes of the very few who might 
" not think one a Jacobin, a Roberfpierre ; and thus is a man 
" perplexed with himfelf. And yet, it is within me, moft 
" deeply rooted within me, to prefer, through my whole life, 
" this ftate of banifhment, of a forlorn outcaft, rather than owe 
*' my reftoration to my country and my property to the in- 
" fluence of foreign powers, and to Englifli pride. I never 
** hear of a defeat of the French without great diftrefs, nor of 
" their fuccefs without an emotion of felf-love, which I am 
" not always fufficiently careful to conceal." 
The fentiraents contained in this paflage are fuch as numbers of 
the emigrants, by their condudl:, have fhewn to be congenial with 
their own ; and fuch as ought to convince us how little gratitude 
they really feel for the protedtion and fupport they have received 
from Englifh generofity ; and that neither the miferies nor the in- 
juftice they have fulfered from their own country can ever make 
them forget for a moment their national enmity. To expert 
that they (hould for ever abandon their country would be a fen- 
liment equally ilHberal on the other fide. It would have been 
well, indeed, for themfelves, and better for England, that the 
whole body of the emigrants had returned to France, As to 
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