States, and have been frankly professed and avowed, in public and private, on all occasions for six and twenty years. A greater falsehood cannot be committed to writing, than is contained in these words: 'Hitherto they have courted the obscurity of a rigid concealment.""

Sept. 13. From T. B. Adams in Philadelphia. "Accept my hearty thanks for the favorable account your letter contains, of my mother's convalescence. It is indeed grateful intelligence, and serves to console me under the painful prospect of being forced to flee from this infected city. You will see that the board of health, or rather board of pestilence, have at last come out, after being threatened by Duane, that he would report, if they did not. They confirm all our fears respecting the prevalence of the (yellow) fever here."

Some items from Mr. Shaw's diary.

Oct. 3. "In the evening at Mr. Emerson's.1 Conversed on books and politics. Mr. E. is very sanguine that there will be a great alteration favorable to federalism in the next Congress. I wish it may be so, but I doubt it strongly."

Oct. 4. "Dined with Dwight, Walter, Wells, Sumner and Chapman. After dinner, we held an animated discussion about the division, which took place among the federalists. Dwight is a young man, who has just completed his professional studies as a lawyer, with Mr. Ames of Dedham. He is talented, and endowed with many attractive qualities."

Oct. 6. "Mr. Quincy has gone to pass a few weeks on his farm, during the continuance of the yellow 1 1 Rev. Wm. Emerson, of First Church in Boston.

fever in town. It has prevailed considerably where he resides. Walter sets out to-morrow on a tour to the southward, preparatory to a voyage for Europe. He has letters which will introduce him to gentlemen of respectability, and thus render his journey pleasant and improving. Ever since our sophomore year in college, we have been connected by the strongest ties of friendship. Excepting Wells, I could part with every young man in town, and feel less solitary, than I shall now by the absence of Walter."

Oct. 8. "Spent the forenoon principally with Channing, who came from Cambridge to see me. We called on Salisbury, who has lately returned from a visit to Europe."

Oct. 17. "Miss Gray told me, that she had been in company with Gideon Granger, Post Master General, who has been on a visit to Boston; who expresses an opinion, that the New England States will never become republicanized till they have a college instituted with republican instructors; and who complains bitterly, that our papers abuse Jefferson and the present administration."

Nov. 1. "This day the Representatives for Congress are to be chosen throughout the State. Dr. Eustis and Mr. J. Q. Adams are the candidates. I went to the meeting about 10 o'clock, and continued there all the morning. There was a great crowd at the Hall, and much confusion. It was almost impossible to put in a vote. The poll closed at two. It was found that there were 1,496 for Mr. Adams, and 1,430 for Dr. Eustis. This small

majority in Boston, is indicative that the Doctor's election is secured. In the evening, much depressed at the result of to-day's voting."

ton.

Oct. 13. Walter in Philadelphia to Shaw in Bos"Here I am at last, in the real capital of our country. It is always difficult for a stranger to express his sensations of any place, because first impressions are not always to be trusted. The charms of novelty must finally give place to sober knowledge of experience, and the dictates of calm investigation must be resigned to a cool judgment, arising from extensive surveys of comparative excellence."

Oct. 30. "I wrote you one or two days ago from Baltimore, which is a fine city. Its commercial confidence and credit have been very much injured by numerous bankruptcies. Mr. Harper1 had gone to Annapolis, so that I had not the pleasure of seeing that highly federal character. I traveled with Captain Preble. He is an agreeable man. Tom Paine has arrived. I believe he came in a vessel to Baltimore."

"I have

Dec. 22. From Walter in Liverpool. the pleasure of informing you of my safe arrival here after a passage of twenty-six days. Liverpool is a place for the slave-trade. It is dirty, smoky and disagreeable. At 9 o'clock this morning I was writing by candle light. Yesterday I was at the Athenæum, a handsome room for the reading of newspapers and magazines, with a good library. The genteel part of the inhabitants frequent the 1 Robert Goodloe Harper.

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library and read, for books are not allowed to be taken away. If I stay in town a few days, I shall see Roscoe. I have a letter to a very intimate friend of his. He is a plain, grave looking man, silent in company, and rich. He does not now practice law, though that is his regular profession. Chapman desires to be affectionately remembered. He is a worthy friend."

CHAPTER VIII.

Both

Samuel Adams against Paine's "Age of Reason"-Navigation of the Mississippi-Marshall's Washington-American LiteratureAustin's Letters-Invasion of England-History of Foreign Affairs-Proposal of Bonaparte to Louis XVI., that he abdicateGillie's Remark on President Adams-Irish Rebellion-Abbe de Lille-Southey-Coleridge-French Preparations-Invitation. 1803, Feb. 4. Shaw in Boston to Walter in London. "Our friend Channing is now at Newport, where he has resided for the last six weeks. Immediately after your departure he preached three Sabbaths in Brattle street church, to crowded audiences and to the delight of every one. churches have invited him to settle with them, and each were zealous that he should accept their invitation. He has negatived the call of Brattle street. He will probably comply with the desire of Federal street. This parish have offered twenty-five dollars a Sabbath, his house and wood, which is equal to the salary of any clergyman in town, and superior to that of most. He has, I think, judged wisely in not undertaking the entire charge of so large a congregation as Brattle street. Such a situation would be too great a tax on his physical powers; would allow him little opportunity for the studies essential for excellence in his profession. Profound learning adds