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The Life And Adventures Of Peter Porcupine;
ring of September , the six happiest months of my life . I went to that country full of all those prejudices that Englishmen suck in with their mothers' milk against the French and their religion ; but a few weeks convinced me that I had been deceived with respea to both . I . met every where with civility , and even hospitality , in a degree that I had not been accustomed to . I found the people amongst whom I livedexcepting those who were
, blasted with the principles of the accursed Revolution , honest , p ious , and kind to excess . People may say what they please ofthe French peasantry under the old Government ; I have conversed with thousands of them , not ten ofwhom did not regret the change . * My determination to settle in the United States was formed before
I left the army . A desire of seeing a country , concerning which I had heard so much , the flattering piaure given of it by Raynal , and above all , an inclination to see the world , led me to this determination ; added to which , I had , imbibed princip les of republicanism , and I thought that men enjoyed there a greater degree of liberty than in England ; I intended to stay in France till the spring of 1793 , but I perceived the storm gathering , and that a war with England was
inevitable . I wished , however , to see Paris ,-and had actually hired-a coach to go thither , when I heard at Abbeville that the King was dethroned , and his guards murdered . This news made me turn off to Havre-de-grace , where I embarked for America . I have now brought myself to the United States , and have enabled the reader to judge of me so far . It remains for me to negative two assertions which applto authoring transaaions ; the one is , that
y my Mr . Bradford ' put a coat on my back ; ' and the other , that I am , or have been , in the pay of a British agent . ' In July 1794 the famous Unitarian Doaor , F . R . S . London , Citizen of France , and Delegate to the Grande Con-vention Nationals , of notorious memory , landed at New York . His landing was nothing to me , nor to any body else ; but the fulsome addresses , sent him by the
pretended patriots , and his canting replies , calculated to flatter thepeople here , and'to degrade his country , and mine , was something to me . When the- ' Observations on the Emigration of this Martyr to the Cause of Liberty' were ready for the press , I did not at first offer them to Mr . Bradford . ' I knew him to retain a rooted hatred against Great Britain , and concluded that his principles would prevent him from being instrumental in publishing any thing that tended to unveil one of its most bitter enemies . I therefore addressed myself to
MrCarey , who looked at the title from top to bottom , and then at me from head to . foot . ' No , my lad , ' says he , ' I don ' t think it will ¦ suit . ' From Mr . Carey I went to Mr . Bradford , and left the pamphlet for his perusal . The next day I went to know his determination . He wanted to know if I . could not make it a little more popular , adding , that unless I could , he feared that the publishing of it would endanger his windows . The only alteration I would consent to was in the title .
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The Life And Adventures Of Peter Porcupine;
ring of September , the six happiest months of my life . I went to that country full of all those prejudices that Englishmen suck in with their mothers' milk against the French and their religion ; but a few weeks convinced me that I had been deceived with respea to both . I . met every where with civility , and even hospitality , in a degree that I had not been accustomed to . I found the people amongst whom I livedexcepting those who were
, blasted with the principles of the accursed Revolution , honest , p ious , and kind to excess . People may say what they please ofthe French peasantry under the old Government ; I have conversed with thousands of them , not ten ofwhom did not regret the change . * My determination to settle in the United States was formed before
I left the army . A desire of seeing a country , concerning which I had heard so much , the flattering piaure given of it by Raynal , and above all , an inclination to see the world , led me to this determination ; added to which , I had , imbibed princip les of republicanism , and I thought that men enjoyed there a greater degree of liberty than in England ; I intended to stay in France till the spring of 1793 , but I perceived the storm gathering , and that a war with England was
inevitable . I wished , however , to see Paris ,-and had actually hired-a coach to go thither , when I heard at Abbeville that the King was dethroned , and his guards murdered . This news made me turn off to Havre-de-grace , where I embarked for America . I have now brought myself to the United States , and have enabled the reader to judge of me so far . It remains for me to negative two assertions which applto authoring transaaions ; the one is , that
y my Mr . Bradford ' put a coat on my back ; ' and the other , that I am , or have been , in the pay of a British agent . ' In July 1794 the famous Unitarian Doaor , F . R . S . London , Citizen of France , and Delegate to the Grande Con-vention Nationals , of notorious memory , landed at New York . His landing was nothing to me , nor to any body else ; but the fulsome addresses , sent him by the
pretended patriots , and his canting replies , calculated to flatter thepeople here , and'to degrade his country , and mine , was something to me . When the- ' Observations on the Emigration of this Martyr to the Cause of Liberty' were ready for the press , I did not at first offer them to Mr . Bradford . ' I knew him to retain a rooted hatred against Great Britain , and concluded that his principles would prevent him from being instrumental in publishing any thing that tended to unveil one of its most bitter enemies . I therefore addressed myself to
MrCarey , who looked at the title from top to bottom , and then at me from head to . foot . ' No , my lad , ' says he , ' I don ' t think it will ¦ suit . ' From Mr . Carey I went to Mr . Bradford , and left the pamphlet for his perusal . The next day I went to know his determination . He wanted to know if I . could not make it a little more popular , adding , that unless I could , he feared that the publishing of it would endanger his windows . The only alteration I would consent to was in the title .