For that reason I honor and shall forever
honor and love you, and those who first caused it to stagger, crack, and
gape. Others may finish; the beginners have the glory; and, take what
part you please at this hour, (I think you will take the best,) your
first services will never be forgotten by a grateful country. Adieu!
Present my best regards to those I know,--and as many as I know in our
country I honor. There never was so much ability, nor, I believe, virtue
in it. They have a task worthy of both. I doubt not they will perform
it, for the stability of the Church and State, and for the union and the
separation of the people: for the union of the honest and peaceable of
all sects; for their separation from all that is ill-intentioned and
seditious in any of them.
BEACONSFIELD, JANUARY 3, 1792.
FOOTNOTES:
[28] The letter is written on folio sheets.
[29] A small error of fact as to the abjuration oath, but of no
importance in the argument.
HINTS FOR A MEMORIAL
TO BE DELIVERED TO
MONSIEUR DE M.M.
WRITTEN IN THE EARLY PART OF 1791
The King, my master, from his sincere desire of keeping up a good
correspondence with his Most Christian Majesty and the French nation,
has for some time beheld with concern the condition into which that
sovereign and nation have fallen.
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