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Ld. B. said he had met with French officers and seen letters
from others (Fayette was one who was mentioned on the occasion)
who all joined in giving the Americans the worst of characters: "they
had all the vices of the Athenians", said somebody, "without any
"of their virtues." Franklin, it was agreed by both their Lordships,
found finds his situation to the last degree uncomfortable: despised and
neglected by the French Ministry, thwarted and persecuted by Arthur
Lee's party of whom he has been heard to say "he could not have
"thought there had been so much venom in human nature."

Elliot has brought down a strange story of the Chancellor, that he had
promised a man a living — that afterwards he came to learn that
the man who is a Yorkshire man had concerned in some of
the opposition measures of that country, and that thereupon he had
revoked his promise: by way of contrast the case was mentioned that
Ld Northington took to make an equal distribution of church
to all parties: a strange circumstance in the story is that
Ld Loughborough went to the Chancellor and forced him into it: the
matter realityof the promise is mentioned as being so clear, that is was as to have been
confirmed by I know not what overt acts.

Ld L. pretends to have heard from very high authority at N.
York

Identifier: | JB/539/216/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1781-08-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	216	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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