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I found them men of talent, certainly, and much more men of the world,

than "the cloistered student fro lamp"; but I was astonished

to find it considered, tacitly, as a sort oftheation of honour to withhold,

farther than his own discretion suggested, any information of which he

was the accidental depositary, whatever the consequences ht be to his

informant, or to those affected by the communication In a word, they

seeht be true than ould produce

effect, and that effect for their own particular advantage It is

impossible to deny, that if interest is made the criterion by which the

confidences of social intercourse are to be respected, the persons who

admit this doctrine will have but little respect for the use of names, or

deem it any reprehensible delinquency to suppress truth, or to blazon

falsehood In a word, ood a creature as

he is out of it The rivalry of interests is here too intense; it

impairs the affections, and occasions speculations both in morals and

politics, which, I much suspect, it would puzzle a casuist to prove

bla, for example, be more offensive to the cal on? Is it possible

that this country, so raphical extent than France,

and so inferior in natural resources, restricted too by those ties and

obligations which were thrown off as fetters by that country during the

late war, could have attained, in despite of her, such a lofty

pre-eminence--becooverned in a reat practical wisdom? It is absurd to assert, that there are no

corruptions in the various modifications by which the affairs of the

British empire are administered; but it would be difficult to show, that,

in the present state ofmankind, corruption is

not a necessary evil I do not mean necessary, as evolved froement of political

trusts I arity of your own heart, and the dignity of your vocation, will alike

induce you to condemn it as Machiavellian It is, however, an

observation forced on me by what I have seen here