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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 coun-
-try 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 naturallikely 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 exactexcite
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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Notes public		ID Number	57069
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