which, said our Doctor, had I been in the house, I would have answered
THUS:--

"Suppose, Mr. Speaker, that to Wharton or to Marlborough, or to any of the
eminent Whigs of the last age, the devil had, not with any great
impropriety,
consented to appear, he would, perhaps, in somewhat like these words, have
commenced the conversation:

"'You seem, my lord, to be concerned at the judicious apprehension that
while you are sapping the foundations of royalty at home, and propagating
here the dangerous doctrine of resistance, the distance of America may
secure its inhabitants from your arts, though active. But I will unfold to
you the gay prospects of futurity. This people, now so innocent and
harmless, shall draw the sword against their mother country, and bathe its
point in the blood of their benefactors; this people, now contented with a
little, shall then refuse to spare what they themselves confess they could
not miss; and these men, now so honest and so grateful, shall, in return
for peace and for protection, see their vile agents in the House of
Parliament, there to sow the seeds of sedition, and propagate confusion,
perplexity, and pain. Be not dispirited, then, at the contemplation of
their present happy state: I promise you that anarchy, poverty, and death
shall, by my care, be carried even across the spacious Atlantic, and settle
in America itself, the sure consequences of our beloved Whiggism.'"

This I thought a thing so very particular that I begged his leave to write
it down directly, before anything could intervene that might make me forget
the force of the expressions. A trick which I have, however, seen played
on common occasions, of sitting steadily down at the other end of the room
to write at the moment what should be said in company, either BY Dr.