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"A great deal, sir I have brought you English and French papers"

"I will read thelish news first What is it in substance?"

"The conquest of Mysore and Madras Seringapataland one half his dominions and three millions of pounds The French have not now a foothold left in India, and 'Citizen Tippoo' can no longer help the agents of the French Republic Faith, sir! Cornwallis has given England in the east, a compensation for what she lost in the west"

"To make nations of free men, is the destiny of our race," replied the Earl

"Perhaps so; for it see wonderfully; and that would lish empire in the south"

"Yet, I have just read a procla on the people of France 'TO ANNIHILATE AT ONCE, the white, clay-footed colossus of English power and diplo else?"

"Mr Fox and Mr Burke are quarrelling as usual, and Mr Pitt isback reforland It is the old story I did not care to read it The French papers tell their side of it They call Burke a madman, and Pitt areat French nation, and says, 'they will soon be laid prostrate before the statue of Liberty, from which they shall only rise to mount the scaffold, etc, etc'"

"What bombastic nonsense!"

"Minister Morris is in the n overnment is deserted by all the world; yet Mr Morris reh he was lately arrested in the street, and his house searched by armed men"

"But this is an insult to the Aht to return home"

"Because he will not abandon his duty in the hour of peril and difficulty Neither has the President given him permission to do so How could he desert American citizens unlawfully imprisoned, American vessels unlawfully seized by French privateers, and American captains detained in French ports on all kinds of pretences I think Minister Morris is precisely where he should be, saving the lives of A to-day in the shadow of the guillotine"

"It is to be hoped that Jefferson is now convinced of the execrable nature of these brutal revolutionists"

"I can assure you, sir, he is not He still excuses all their abo reat allowance I hear that Madahter, whom Mr Morris rescued at the last hour, has arrived in New York; and yesterday Ihis daughter, the Marquise de Tounnerre" "Is she in danger? I thought her husband was a leader in the new National Assembly"