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By how much greater would the Country have been the
better, if instead of thus volunteering himself to prevent the enemy
from invading it, he had cautiously lain by, & for want of the advice
in question, suffered them to have carried carry their projects into effect?

Which is the best subject, he who at the hazard of every thing
that is or ought to be dear to a man, exerts himself to save his
Country, & that in a way bidding as fair as possible for efficacy,
or he who for want of such exertions chooses to let the country take
its chance? I know who is the more prudent man of the two—
taking selfishness & nothing else into the account of prudence
I know who in this sense is the more prudent man —the
treatment Mr Vaughan has met with shews it but too plainly—
— but what I ask is — who is the most public spirited man,
the most loyal subject?

Oh, but there was something in the stile of the advice which
bespoke a well wisher to those to whom it was given
— I daresay
there was — I am sure there was — for that Mr Vaughan is no
idiot, I am sure. But an idiot must that man be, & surely
the most unprecedented of all ideots, who should have expected advice
to have its effect, if the person giving it appeared in any
other character than that of a well-wisher to those to who
he gave it.

I can tell you more, Sir — Mr Vaughan not only appeared
to be, but was, & is still, I am well assured, a well wisher to France.
I wish it were in my power to be as much of a well-wisher to
France as I believe him to be. It is impossible Mr Vaughan
should not be a well-wisher to France. He is a well-wisher, he is
a friend & a more zealous & active one, perhaps scarce breathes —
to all mankind. He is a well-wisher to France as Christ
has commanded him to be, & as Christ in his place would
have been, a well-wisher & benefactor to the deniers of his name.
The question I presume is — not whether he was a well-wisher
to




Identifier: | JB/169/249/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.

Date_1

1796-02-15

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Box

169

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Folio number

249

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Image

002

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

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Penner

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Notes public

ID Number

57069

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