YOU perceive the rain continues. I will give you a sketch of a curious converfation that took place yesterday. Some gentlemen of the neighbourhood dined with us. The discourse turned on the prefent unhappy ftate of Europe. Governor Flint, according to cuftom, inveighed vehemently against the whole French nation. Onė gentleman implored his clemency in favour of the emigrant nobility and clergy, who were the fevereft fufferers by the revolution the governor reprobated. No-It was fuffis 1 cient that they were French. The ancient governors of that nation, according to him, were as weak as the prefent are wickednaming a few of the most eminent of the former. See what a figure they now cut!" faid he; and then drew a comparison between them and certain perfons in high fituations in this country. don, "If you wish to weigh the refpective importance of two fet of men," faid lord Carit is not fair to put one into the scale, ornamented with ftars, and ribbons, and mitres, and robes, and large perriwigs, and place the other in the oppofite fcale, ftripped quite naked. The high nobility and clergy of France were as much refpected, while they retained their fituations, as thofe of any country in Europe; and heaven only knows what fort of a figure our own would cut in the character of emigrants! Let me tell you, governor, it is a difficult roll for even the greateft men to fupport with dignity." |