Assembly, I was in Paris, and had written to him but a short time
before to inform him how prosperously matters were going on. Soon
after this I saw his advertisement of the Pamphlet he intended to
publish: As the attack was to be made in a language but little
studied, and less understood in France, and as everything suffers by
translation, I promised some of the friends of the Revolution in that
country that whenever Mr. Burke's Pamphlet came forth, I would answer
it. This appeared to me the more necessary to be done, when I saw the
flagrant misrepresentations which Mr. Burke's Pamphlet contains; and
that while it is an outrageous abuse on the French Revolution, and
the principles of Liberty, it is an imposition on the rest of the
world.

I am the more astonished and disappointed at this conduct in Mr.
Burke, as (from the circumstances I am going to mention) I had formed
other expectations.

I had seen enough of the miseries of war, to wish it might never more
have existence in the world, and that some other mode might be found
out to settle the differences that should occasionally arise in the
neighbourhood of nations. This certainly might be done if Courts were
disposed to set honesty about it, or if countries were enlightened
enough not to be made the dupes of Courts. The people of America had
been bred up in the same prejudices against France, which at that
time characterised the people of England; but experience and an
acquaintance with the French Nation have most effectually shown to
the Americans the falsehood of those prejudices; and I do not believe
that a more cordial and confidential intercourse exists between any
two countries than between America and France.