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would not fail to be pregnant with incalculable miseries to this.
He accordingly delivers to Mr Stone in London a paper giving
a picture of this country as happy & as honourable for this country
as they are just, representing it as impregnable, & all
attacks upon it helpless hopeless, & this is the traiterous intercourse
of Mr Vaughan with France.

If Mr Vaughan in his own mind attributed to his advice
a degree of possible influence on the minds of men in France,
it was not without reason. He was known in France as a member
of the British Legislature. He had once filled a public character in
France. He had maintained connections, at a time when it was
a matter of ornament to any man to maintain connections, in
France, & that without regard to party, & consequently with men
of all parties. If he looked upon himself as being well known
in France it was not without reason: & in Mr Vaughan's
instance to be known is to be esteemed. In proportion as he was
known in France, he must have been known, as I observed before,
as a well-wisher to France: & if English sagacity is so ill able to
distinguish good-wishes towards one of two contending countries from
ill-wishes towards the other, I leave it to be imagined whether
the discrimination was natural likely or could appear likely to be made
with perfect accuracy by French vanity & infatuation.— There is a
sort of overweaning forwardness with which the best intentions are
not unapt to be alloy'd. But even this imputation, venial as it is,
you will now, I hope, be of opinion with me, does not attack
upon the conduct of Mr Vaughan.

Believe me, Sir, it is not any domestic, nor certainly anything like
a party connection, (for I have never looked upon Mr Vaughan as
a party man, & I am sure I am none) but that sort of moral
feeling which the idea of suffering worth is so well intitled to exact excite
even in the most distant bosom, that has called forth this unbidden,
& unlooked for, tribute to Justice, from
A Constant Reader.

Identifier: | JB/169/249/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1	1796-02-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	249	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	57069
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