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to pronounce, from the information I had lately received, that there 
appeared the fairest prospect, of a speedy restoration of universal 
peace. 
In discussing the commerce of different countries, and the numerous 
articles of convenience, as well as of luxury, which one nation derives 
from its intercourse with another, the bold spirit of enterprise that ani¬ 
mates the English nation, claimed the Regent's particular admiration. 
Yet, at the same time that he allowed due honour to our undaunted 
perseverance, he could not but attribute the motive, that impelled 
so numerous a class of Englishmen, to leave their country and their 
friends, and encounter the danger of inclement climates, and rude in¬ 
hospitable men, to some great internal defect in their own country. At 
the same time he was convinced, from what he had heard and seen, that 
there was not, perhaps, existing, a more ingenious people in the world. 
In order to account for that restlessness of disposition, which disperses 
my countrymen, over the whole surface of the globe, I was led to expa¬ 
tiate at some length, on the system of education, prevailing amongst 
us. This, I told him, was calculated perpetually to awaken genius, and 
call forth peculiar talents, which might otherwise have rested for ever 
in a torpid state, unexerted and unknown; but which, when once 
roused, and improved, would not suffer their possessors to sit down in 
listless and inglorious inactivity. Hence it was, that numerous branches 
of respectable families, prompted by curiosity, not less than by a desire 
of wealth, spread themselves over every region of the universe. I added, 
that our Sovereign, renowned for his love of science, and encourage¬ 
ment of useful research, had, at various times, commanded ships to be 
