compliment on his matriculation into _their_ philosophy; but as to his
master, they made to him, as was reasonable, a reprimand, not without a
pardon, and an oblique hint at the whole family. What indignities have
been offered through this wretch to his master, and how well borne, it
is not necessary that I should dwell on at present. I hope that those
who yet wear royal, imperial, and ducal crowns will learn to feel as
men and as kings: if not, I predict to them, they will not long exist as
kings or as men.

Great Britain was not there. Almost in despair, I hope she will never,
in any rags and _coversluts_ of infamy, be seen at such an exhibition.
The hour of her final degradation is not yet come; she did not herself
appear in the Regicide presence, to be the sport and mockery of those
bloody buffoons, who, in the merriment of their pride, were insulting
with every species of contumely the fallen dignity of the rest of
Europe. But Britain, though not personally appearing to bear her part in
this monstrous tragi-comedy, was very far from being forgotten. The
new-robed regicides found a representative for her. And who was this
representative? Without a previous knowledge, any one would have given a
thousand guesses before he could arrive at a tolerable divination of
their rancorous insolence. They chose to address what they had to say
concerning this nation to the ambassador of America. They did not apply
to this ambassador for a mediation: that, indeed, would have indicated a
want of every kind of decency; but it would have indicated nothing more.
But in this their American apostrophe, your Lordship will observe, they
did not so much as pretend to hold out to us directly, or through any
mediator, though in the most humiliating manner, any idea whatsoever of
peace, or the smallest desire of reconciliation. To the States of
America themselves they paid no compliment. They paid their compliment
to Washington solely: and on what ground? This most respectable