that persuasion, I felt myself free to express to you my genuine sentiments with respect to England.  No man was more sensible than myself of the just value of the friendship of that country.  There are between us so many of those circumstances which naturally produce and cement kind dispositions, that if they could have forgiven our resistance to their usurpations, our connections might have been durable, and have insured duration to both our governments.  I wished, therefore, a cordial friendship with them, and I spared no occasion of manifesting this in our correspondence and intercourse with them; not disguising, however, my desire of friendship with their enemy also.  During the administration of Mr. Addington, I thought I discovered some friendly symptoms on the part of that government; at least, we received some marks of respect from the administration, and some of regret at the wrongs we were suffering from their country.  So, also, during the short interval of Mr. Fox’s power.  But every other administration since our Revolution has been equally wanton in their injuries and insults, and has manifested equal hatred and aversion.  Instead, too, of cultivating the government itself, whose principles are those of the great mass of the nation, they have adopted the miserable policy of teazing and embarrassing it, by allying themselves with a faction here, not a tenth of the people, noisy and unprincipled, and which never can come into power while republicanism is the spirit of the nation, and that must continue to be so, until such a condensation of population shall have taken place as will require centuries.  Whereas, the good will of the government itself would give them, and immediately, every benefit which reason or justice would permit it to give.  With respect to myself, I saw great reason to believe their ministers were weak enough to credit the newspaper trash about a supposed personal enmity in myself towards England.  This wretched party imputation was beneath the notice of wise men.  England never did me a personal injury, other than in open war, and for numerous individuals there, I have great esteem and friendship.  And I must have had a mind far below the duties of my station, to have felt either national partialities or antipathies in conducting the affairs confided to me.  My affections were first for my own country, and then, generally, for all mankind; and nothing but minds placing themselves above the passions, in the functionaries of this country, could have preserved us from the war to which their provocations have been constantly urging us.  The war interests in England include a numerous and wealthy part of their population; and their influence is deemed worth courting by ministers wishing to keep their places.  Continually endangered by a powerful opposition, they find it convenient to humor the popular passions at the expense of the public good.  The shipping interest, commercial interest, and their janizaries of the navy, all fattening