very wise and prudent men concerned in the conduct of your affairs.”  A Tory view of Boston in these times, (by “Sagittarius,”) is as follows:—­“The Town-Meeting at Boston is the hot-bed of sedition.  It is there that all their dangerous insurrections are engendered; it is there that the flame of discord and rebellion was first lighted up and disseminated over the Provinces; it is therefore greatly to be wished that Parliament may rescue the loyal inhabitants of that town and Province from the merciless hand of an ignorant mob, led on and inflamed by self-interested and profligate men.”]

[Footnote 3:  Reliq.  Wotton., p. 317, et seq.]

[Footnote 4:  Of clay he says, “It is a cursed step-dame to almost all vegetation, as having few or no meatuses for the percolation of alimental showers.”]

[Footnote 5:  Sir William Temple gives this list of his pears:—­Blanquet, Robin, Rousselet, Pepin, Jargonel; and for autumn:  Buree, Vertlongue, and Bergamot.]

[Footnote 6:  Brougham’s Speeches, Vol.  II. p. 233.]

[Footnote 7:  Vol.  IV. p. 443, First Series.]

[Footnote 8:  Notes and Queries, Vol.  V. p. 17.]

[Footnote 9:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 10:  Lib.  I. v. 104.]

[Footnote 11:  Sparks’s Works of Franklin, Vol.  VIII. p. 538.]

[Footnote 12:  Notes and Queries, Vol.  V. p. 549, First Series.]

[Footnote 13:  Ibid.  Vol.  V. p. 140.  See, also, Ibid. Vol.  V. p. 571; Vol.  VI. p. 88; Dublin Review for March, 1847, p. 212; Quarterly Review for June, 1850.]

[Footnote 14:  Oevres de Turgot, Tom.  IX. p. 140.]

[Footnote 15:  Oeuvres de Condorcet, par O’Connor, Tom.  V. p. 162.]

[Footnote 16:  Sparks’s Works of Franklin, Vol.  VIII. p. 537; Mignet, Notices et Portraits, Tom.  II. p. 480.]

[Footnote 17:  Cabania, Oeuvres, Tom.  V. p. 251.]

[Footnote 18:  Lettres de Madame Du Deffant, Tom.  III. p. 367.]

[Footnote 19:  Ibid.  Tom.  IV. p. 35.]

[Footnote 20:  Lacretelle, Histoire de France, Tom.  V. p. 90.]

[Footnote 21:  Oeuvres de Condorcet, par O’Connor, Tom.  V. pp. 406, 407.]

[Footnote 22:  Capefigue, Louis XVI, Tom.  II. pp. 12, 13, 42, 49, 50.  The rose-water biographer of Diane de Poitiers, Madame de Pompadour, and Madame du Barry would naturally disparage Franklin.]

[Footnote 23:  Mignet, Notices at Portraits, Tom.  II. p. 427.]

[Footnote 24:  La Gazette Secrete, 15 Jan. 1777; Capefigue, Louis XVI., Tom.  II. p. 15.]

[Footnote 25:  Oeuvres de Turgot, Tom.  II. p. 66.]

[Footnote 26:  Oeuvres de Turgot, Tom.  VIII. p. 496.]

[Footnote 27:  Vol.  X. p. 107.]

[Footnote 28:  Memoires de Madame D’Epinay, Tom.  III. p. 431.]