and for the whole world, than that she may find other Washingtons to rule her empire, other Hamiltons to guide her councils-to wean her from mad dreams of ambition, conquest, and aggrandizement, and bring her back to the happier domain of law and liberty, civilization and peace. Meanwhile, the curse of civil war which has fallen upon the great republic-traceable in its causes to that uncontrolled licence of the democracy, which has substituted mere self-will and caprice for knowledge, experience, and wisdom-may serve as a warning and a lesson to other nations and people. It may teach the remaining colonies of Great Britain to be slow in breaking the "golden link of the crown" which binds them to the mother-country, until they have secured for themselves institutions firm enough and strong enough to resist the strain of popular violence. It may teach those nations of Europe, which are struggling manfully to obtain the old English privileges of free thought, free speech, and just and equal government, to base the rights thus acquired on the broad ground of practical and constitutional liberty, not on any fanciful application of democratic theories. Above all, it may and must teach the people of England, to be content with the manifold blessings they enjoy, and not to risk them by rash experiments. More devotedly than ever shall we guard that time-honoured Throne, -Whose deep foundations lie In veneration and the people's love; Whose steps are equity, whose seat is law.” And because we know, that it can never be maintained by cold calculations of utility, we shall cherish those sentiments of loyalty and personal attachment which unite the highest with the lowest in joy and sorrow-as when, of late, the death of an illustrious prince cast a shadow over every English home, and the arrival of a royal bride made a holiday round every English hearth. In the same temper, we shall grudge no mark of reasonable deference and respect to that ancient Nobility, which, mingling in all the pursuits of daily life, and constantly recruited from the ranks below it, exists amongst us, not as an effete and obsolete order, but as a real power in the state, balancing the two extremes. Nor shall we fail to support that National Church, which, by its wise moderation, has saved us alike from the gloom of infidelity on the one side, and the wild extravagance of religious fanaticism on the other— confiding the care of our parishes, not to bigoted priests or ignorant zealots, but to kindly and educated gentlemen, good fathers of families, for the most part models of a Christian life, and centres of civilization in their several neighbourhoods. And, along with these venerable institutions, we shall study to uphold the dignity of the Commons' House of Parliament, and resist every attempt to establish the brute force of numbers, in place of the virtual representation of the spirit and intelligence of the country. In a word, we shall cling faster than before to the old laws, the old franchises, the old customs of England; and, by so doing, we shall best preserve that glorious inheritance of freedom, which we have derived from a long line of patriots and statesmen, and which I trust in God we shall transmit unimpaired to distant generations, INDEX. ADAMS, JOHN, recommends Washington as commander-in-chief, 18; AMES, FISHER, Supports Hamilton's financial scheme, 267; predicts ANDRÉ, MAJOR, captured on his return from an interview with ARNOLD, BENEDICT, renders good service at Saratoga, 48; poorly BACHE'S AURORA, its remarks on the retirement of Washington, 363. BAYARD, MR. induced by Hamilton to vote for Jefferson rather than BOWDOIN, James, suppresses the insurrection in Massachusetts, 175. CALLENDER, a libeller by profession, 337. CHATHAM, LORD, expresses admiration of the First Congress, 6. CHOISEUL, DUKE DE, sends agents to the American colonies, with a CLINTON, GOVERNOR, letter from Hamilton to him, 56: opposes 112. CONWAY, GENERAL, plots against Washington, who discovers the CORNWALLIS, LORD, defeats General Gates, 95; blockaded in York- CURTIS, GEORGE TICKNOR, extracts from his work on the "History CUSTIS, MARTHA, married to Washington, 13; worthy of her husband D'ARCON, CHEVALIER, his batteries destroyed before Gibraltar, 112. DICKINSON, JOHN, delegate to the Convention from Delaware, 181. FAIRFAX, LORD, the early friend and patron of Washington, 9. FRENEAU, PHILIP, editor of the National Gazette, 292; declares he GAGE, GENERAL, orders the seizure of the stores at Concord, 6. GENET, CITIZEN, arrives at Charleston, 306; his designs, 307; his GEORGE III., represents the opinions of the majority of the British GREENE, NATHANIEL, joins the army before Boston, 23; first notices HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, his birth and education, 27, 30; first |