A good many reflections will arise in your Lordship’s mind upon the time and circumstances of that most insulting and atrocious declaration of hostility against this kingdom.  The declaration was made subsequent to the noble lord’s encomium on the new Regicide Constitution,—­after the pamphlet had made something more than advances towards a reconciliation with that ungracious race, and had directly disowned all those who adhered to the original declaration in favor of monarchy.  It was even subsequent to the unfortunate declaration in the speech from the throne (which this pamphlet but too truly announced) of the readiness of our government to enter into connections of friendship with that faction.  Here was the answer from the throne of Regicide to the speech from the throne of Great Britain.  They go out of their way to compliment General Washington on the supposed rancor of his heart towards this country.  It is very remarkable, that they make this compliment of malice to the chief of the United States, who had first signed a treaty of peace, amity, and commerce with this kingdom.  This radical hatred, according to their way of thinking, the most recent, solemn compacts of friendship cannot or ought not to remove.  In this malice to England, as in the one great comprehensive virtue, all other merits of this illustrious person are entirely merged.  For my part, I do not believe the fact to be so as they represent it.  Certainly it is not for Mr. Washington’s honor as a gentleman, a Christian, or a President of the United States, after the treaty he has signed, to entertain such sentiments.  I have a moral assurance that the representation of the Regicide Directory is absolutely false and groundless.  If it be, it is a stronger mark of their audacity and insolence, and still a stronger proof of the support they mean to give to the mischievous faction they are known to nourish there, to the ruin of those States, and to the end that no British affections should ever arise in that important part of the world, which would naturally lead to a cordial, hearty British alliance, upon the bottom of mutual interest and ancient affection.  It shows in what part it is, and with what a weapon, they mean a deadly blow at the heart of Great Britain.  One really would have expected, from this new Constitution of theirs, which had been announced as a great reform, and which was to be, more than any of their former experimental schemes, alliable with other nations, that they would, in their very first public act, and their declaration to the collected representation of Europe and America, have affected some degree of moderation, or, at least, have observed a guarded silence with regard to their temper and their views.  No such thing:  they were in haste to declare the principles which are spun into the primitive staple of their frame.  They were afraid that a moment’s doubt should exist about them.  In their very infancy they were in haste to put their hand on their infernal