1910.] 
a bagnio. He goes sometimes to Ver- 
sailies im his coach, at others in a fiacre, 
er walks, ‘The French, who are mach 
struck with every thing that is new, are 
full of wonder and respect, and at the 
public spectacles they give a thunder of 
applause whenever he appears, 
“Th private society his majesty is easy 
and affable, and by what Lcan under- 
stand, glad to shew he is more conver= 
sant in the common affairs of human 
lite, than princes usually are. The ob- 
jects of his curiosity, and the subjects of © 
nis discourse, are such as seem to indi- 
cate he is a man of sense; whether he 
has talents for empire, time must shew. 
Without understanding the decirine of 
chances as well as De Moivre, one may 
pronounce the chances are nearly infinite 
that he bas not. 1 am glad however 
princes begin to travel; one has a chance 
of meeting these itinerant monarchs sonie- 
where, and they amuse us at least as well 
as stufled eagles or lions in a museum. 
“| was in great hopes that you would 
have bad the curiosity to have come to 
town, to have heard lord Chatham in 
support of his motion the other day, and 
when you had got so far towards Bath 
you inight have proceeded, and I should 
have had the happiness of seeing you 
here. The primate of Leland, and sir 
Willlam Robison, were so good as to 
call on me in ther wayto London; they 
staid only three days. | believe the 
primate will go to Tunbridge before he 
returns to freland. 
'  T believe I shall not remove from 
hence till ihe middle of next month, when 
I propose to make a visit at Mount Edge- 
cumbe. Iam_ashamed of this long let- 
ter. I have an opportunity of sending it 
to London this moment. I am, dear 
brother, with most affectionate estcem, 
u eh A . 
E. Montacu.” 
In the dispute with America, Mr. Ro- 
‘binson, though long retired from parlia- 
“ment, was a most strenuous and able op- 
ponent of the ministerial plans. In the 
‘progress of that unhappy affair, he wroie 
several pamphlets, wiich were received 
with great attentica, The curhest T have 
“met with is eutitied, ‘ Considerativns 
on the Measures carrying on with respect 
to the British Colonies in North America. 
The second edition, with additions; and 
an Appendix relative to the present State 
of A‘fairs on that Continent,” with the 
following motto: ‘‘ihere is neither king 
or sovereign lord on earth who bas, be- 
yond his own, domain, power to lay cne 
farthing on his subjects, without the 
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grant and consent of those who pay it, — 
unless he does it by tyranny and via- 
lence.’—~-Phil. de Commines, ch. 108. Tt 
is dated April, 1774, and the Appendix, 
in the following November. 
This memoir is not intended as a ful- 
some and indiscriminate panegyric, and 
theiefore I have no hesitation in owning 
that the language is unequal, often un- 
-couth, and seldom elegant; but it is not 
deficient in vigour; and, however unskilled 
in the graces of style the writer might 
be, for powers of thinking, for sagacity 
and extent of information, he deserves 
much praise. 
The Appendix commences in the fol- 
lowing words: ‘ The foregoing sheets 
‘were first published in April, and we are 
now in the next November. Time and 
events have, ia the short intervening 
space of seven months, but too plainly 
and too strongly confirmed the opinions 
respecting our American measures and 
their consequences, which were then 
presumed by the author to be laid before- 
the public. It is in the preceding pages 
explained, that the plan proposed and 
confided in by the administration on that 
occasion appeared to be, that the removal 
of the Custom-house, and the suspension 
of the commerce of Boston, would soon 
bring on their knees, and subject to our 
commands, the inhabitants of that town 
and of its colony, who were, by that 
means to become, besides their own obe- 
dience, an example and a terror to the 
rest of their brethren on that continents 
but the policy and the probability of this 
fne-spun scheme are there doubted of, 
questioned, and discussed. It is repre- 
sented that the harsh and violent mea- 
sures then carrying on in America be 
received no otherwise ian as a declara- 
tion of war, and depend upon the same 
issue; that it could only be by force or 
by conquest, if they were submitted to; 
that we must expect to have to do wich an 
union of that continent; that it would 
among them be made a common cause not 
to be taxed by us; and that they would 
certainly join, combine, and associate to- 
gether, for their general aid mutual assist- 
ance and defence. Is there any occa- 
sion to say whether these things have 
proved true? 
“ We were at the same time warned, 
that if it was intended to use force and 
violence, the decision might not be so 
very soon, or so very sure; that these 
being atruly free people, and their go- 
vernments democratical, they would be 
able to arm every man in their country; 
4 that 
