Part 6 (2/2)

Mr Law talks in an oratorical y of action which , and quite inexhaustible ”His worth,” says Mr Elliott, ”is not one-tenth of it known, but is throay upon this country”

”It is said, Sir, that the population of this country is systematically unprincipled, and almost without virtue” ”That, Sir, is not true In the cities, since the commercial distress, the people seeland, and the withdrawing a paper capital by this government, have driven the people to desperation They are unjustly done by They were once estee medium only is wanted to heal the breach In the country the people are anxious to ements” ”Do you, Sir, think that no reland?” ”No, Sir! no other” ”Then the sooner it comes the better” ”But, Sir, (said he) {448} such confusion, and horror, and calamity, will characterize the catastrophe as the world has not seen” ”Do you think it will exceed the French revolution? Will the people of England be le than the French?” ”The desperation of their situation will uish, and collision of so er than our state of Virginia

Here, Sir, we have plenty, and whether sleeping or waking are safe in our houses, and liberty and prosperity are secure You, I find, are deputed to collect inforetthat I wished a protection or special passport from the British minister, Mr Antrobus, went and applied for it, but did not succeed, it should seem, because I was acquainted with ---- on the black books of the governent h, offensive hand in England He, I believe, Sir, wrote the Watchman and alarmed the church and the Bishop of Ely”

Mr Law seems not to like the radicals ”When,” says he, ”I ca down to the grave I seemed buried Tell my family that I drink daily rye-coffee and whiskey”

{449} Recipe forrye-coffee, equal to the West Indian, after Mr

Law's fashi+on Swell the rye in ater before you roast it

_8th_--I received the following letter from Mr Law

_Saturday, 8th July, 1820_

Sir,

I wish you, if you see Mr Elliott of the Patent-office, to desire him to come and dine on Monday If you can visit hbourhood, and in conversation you may obtain whatever opinions I have for this country It is iven to those who are necessitated to seek an asyluht not to travel far into the interior, as helife Want of society, want of hands, want of a market, want of medical aid; in short, almost every want is experienced for many years; discontent soon destroys the harmony of associates, and former attachrets

The A race, and quit their farms to seek rich back lands; but more of this when I have the pleasure to see you

Yours most obediently, T LAW

_Sunday, 9th_--By appoint, 45 years from Ireland, and {450} frohout the revolution up to this titon, and appointed to the honour of delivering Lord Cornwallis his discharge froraciously received it from the Major at his house in London, much pleased that he was not co been exchanged for Mr Laurens in the Tower ”Major,”

said his lordshi+p, ”I feel obliged to you and others, and will hold ave him an opportunity, and was served Mr Laurens, while in the toas consulted by a friend of Lord Hillsborough, the minister, on this question: ”What, Mr Laurens, would you, as a friend to Aland to do at the present juncture” ”Why, Sir, the experience of ages proves that an ounce of honey is worth a ton of vinegar” His lordshi+p on hearing this, in great rage rejoined, ”Aar”

Mr John Law, during the attack on Washi+ngton, served in the United States' arot possession, he laid aside his unifor the British officers that he was the nephew of Lord Ellenborough, invited theether

{451} _10th_--By Mr Elliott, I was introduced to Major Roberts, at the public departineers[153] I was accompanied by Mr John and Mr Edmund Lao natives of Asia, to the seat of their father to dinner, where we met Mr Carter, Mr Elliott, Colonel Heb, and his friend, a Cantab Our dinner consisted of lamb, ham and chicken, and blackberry pie, with claret, brandy, and whiskey, the latter 15 years old Here was all ease and no cereuest seemed as free as if at home, and eat, drank, and talked as he pleased As this dinner was on uest The two Asiatic sons of Mr Law seeentlemen, free fro our ride to dinner, observed that his father's objection to slavery was rooted in ht buy slaves, he could emancipate them when he pleased I told Mr

Law, their father, what they said of this prejudice ”Aye,” said he, ”call it what they please, I aood and proper motive

Wherever there are blacks, the white population is seen to decrease The blacks will free themselves in the south; their resistance and insurrection will be horrid and irresistible; the free states will never stir an inch to oppose the blacks or to assist the planters, who have no feelings in common with the farmers and {452} people of free states The forland can give them more for produce than their country that their countrymen should be drained of money for the support of British manufactures”

Free blacks, in all the above states, are an especial nuisance, because they are deest slaves, and act as brokers to them, or receivers of whatever the slaves steal

Birkbeck and Flower becaretted that they did not settle in this, or soht have lived as the uished citizens, and at a ht have visited and been visited by the President, and all the heads of departments; had a town and country house, plenty of land, increasing in value, and good markets; plenty of coardens, and every convenience formed to their hands, at less than the cost of iain What o into the wilderness! Their land is not advanced in value by their ht have invested hbourhoods, and, without sacrificing themselves, their posterity would have reaped the benefit, which must be slow, but which is sure to coht that landthat there was an infinite supply at the same price; and, besides, how could they be sure that settlers would follow and give an advance It was ht to have known that working Yankee families, who do all the labour themselves, are the only proper pioneers Gentlemen-farmers should not remove into the west, until they can live and do better there than here At any rate it is tio when they can be the third or fourth buyers of farms; when they can have the improveain Society and visiting, so indispensable to such intelligent Englishht here have cheaply ”I entertained (continued Mr Law) the President and heads of departments, and 100 friends besides, to dinner, at this house, on such a dinner, as we have had to-day, and a little light wine, and the cost of all was only 40 dollars My good neighbours, it is true, sent ht I should find it difficult to cook for so land, I must have my Lord ----, and others of the same rank; all must be splendid, costly, and pompous; but all this is not the hospitality which I like and find here Here we go and come, as, and e please; no previous notice is necessary; {454} we give and take freely of such things as we have, and no one is inconvenienced In England a house is alarhbours and visitors we are all equal, and share good things in coarden, where Mr Law boasted that he should have 2,000 celery plants for arden produce three times a week to ardener, and puts 100 dollars into my pocket, exclusive of my butter, which furnishes me with butcher's meat, &c My farm, at present, does not, but it will, more than support my establishment”

He has toro children, and five or six labourers hired at froht dollars to twelve dollars per ht o'clock the company departed, except er, so that we hbourhood