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happy & as honourable for their country, as they are<lb/> | happy & as honourable for their country, as they are<lb/> | ||
just representing it as impregnable & all attacks<lb/> | just representing it as impregnable & all attacks<lb/> | ||
upon it | upon it hopeless, & this is the traiterous intercourse<lb/> | ||
of Mr Vaughan with France. | |||
If Mr Vaughan in his own mind attributed to<lb/> | |||
his advice a degree of possible influence on the<lb/> | |||
minds of men in France, it was not without<lb/> | |||
reason. He was known in France as a Member<lb/> | |||
of the British Legislature: he had once <hi rend="superscript">as a British subject</hi> filled a<lb/> | |||
public character in France. He had maintained<lb/> | |||
connections, at a time where it was a matter of<lb/> | |||
ornament to any man to maintain connections<lb/> | |||
in France & that without regard to party & consequently<lb/> | |||
with men of all parties. If the | |||
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good opportunity of conveying reasons to them against
an enterprise, which, how rashly & foolishly
conducted on the part of that Country, could 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, in colours and
happy & as honourable for their country, as they are
just representing it as impregnable & all attacks
upon it 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 as a British subject filled a
public character in France. He had maintained
connections, at a time where 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 the
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