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*7 8 3' friendly interview to the prefent moment—who had fpread 
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before them whatever they had to give, or their coun¬ 
try produced, and who, added to all this, as an unequi¬ 
vocal proof of the high opinion he entertained of the Eng- 
lijh , was going to confign his own fon to their care —is 
there a reader who, recalling all thefe circumftances, can 
wonder they affe&ed the fenlibility of Abba Thulle ?—Or 
rather, will there be found a reader who will not be ready 
with myfelf to afk, Under what fun was ever tempered the 
fteel that could cut fuch a pafiage to the heart as this juft 
reproach of the King’s ? Every individual felt its force, 
and its truth ; every individual alfo felt how much his mind 
had injured the virtues of this excellent man.—Nor was 
the wound of this reproach rendered lefs acute by the con- 
fcioufnefs each man had, of having been fo lately induced, 
by his unjuft fears, to join in fuch deftru<ftive counfel againft 
him and his family. 
But the eye of philofophy will candidly view and dif- 
criminate between the two parties ; the people of Pelew, 
tutored in the fchool of Nature, acfted from her impulfe 
alone, they were open and undifguifed ; unconfcious of 
deceit tbemfelves, they neither feared nor looked for it in 
others.—Our countrymen—born and brought up in a civi¬ 
lized nation, where Art affumes every form and colouring 
of life, and is even perfetftioned into a fcience, were fa¬ 
shioned by education to fufpicion and diftruft, and awake 
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