Letter 3 (1

What says Your Lordship to this passage? Is Your

Lordship ready to subscribe proposition of the public spirited

and truly noble Duke? Is it a treasure ?

Is it sound doc trine? or is ini

it in Utopia only that it is to pass for tor ture?

Would the founders and supporters of improved colonies

subscribe to it? Does Your Lordship know of any other person

who would subscribe to it true or is it romance? The

What says Your Lordship to this question? Has any such light

as the noble writer speaks of ever found its way into

? the seat of government here? One pair of

stairs — two pair of stairs — Garret or any other floor

of the Treasury Chambers

In the mind of the noble writer the idea of obligation

it is evident from this passage had some how or other become

connected with the idea of the seals of State. Your Lordship

smiles: but Your Lordships candour will observe

in his behalf where he was writing — in America;

writing in America, and living in low company — amongst

Quakers.

What is rather more to the purpose there was once a time

when an idea not very dissimilar appears to have been floating

must have been floating in the mind of an Honourable

Gentleman whose official seat is not many Yards distant from Your Lordship's. "With

"respect to Your Convict plan (says M r

Vansittart in "the last letter I have been honoured

with by that gentleman dated 10 th

September 1800)" I have not yet had an opportunity

"of consulting with Lord Pelham, on whose decision the

business