[Footnote 2: Boston, printed in the "Gazette" of February 12, 1770. A letter printed in the "Boston Evening Post," October 9, 1789, from London, received by the last ship, after eulogizing "the noble stand of the colonists," says, "I am charmed with the prudent conduct of the Bostonians in particular, and that you have been able lo preserve so much tranquillity among you, while the spirits of the people must have been so soured and agitated by oppression. You have certainly very wise and prudent men concerned in the conduct of your affairs." A Tory view of Boston in these times, (by "Sagittarius,") is as follows:--"The Town-Meeting at Boston is the hot-bed of sedition. It is there that all their dangerous insurrections are engendered; it is there that the flame of discord and rebellion was first lighted up and disseminated over the Provinces; it is therefore greatly to be wished that Parliament may rescue the loyal inhabitants of that town and Province from the merciless hand of an ignorant mob, led on and inflamed by self-interested and profligate men."] [Footnote 3: _Reliq. Wotton._, p. 317, et seq.] [Footnote 4: Of clay he says, "It is a cursed step-dame to almost all vegetation, as having few or no meatuses for the percolation of alimental showers."] [Footnote 5: Sir William Temple gives this list of his pears:--Blanquet, Robin, Rousselet, Pepin, Jargonel; and for autumn: Buree, Vertlongue, and Bergamot.] [Footnote 6: Brougham's _Speeches_, Vol. II. p. 233.] [Footnote 7: Vol. IV. p. 443, First Series.] [Footnote 8: _Notes and Queries_, Vol. V. p. 17.] [Footnote 9: _Ibid._] [Footnote 10: Lib. I. v. 104.] [Footnote 11: Sparks's _Works of Franklin_, Vol. VIII. p. 538.] [Footnote 12: _Notes and Queries_, Vol. V. p. 549, First Series.] [Footnote 13: _Ibid_. Vol. V. p. 140. See, also, _Ibid._ Vol. V. p. 571; Vol. VI. p. 88; _Dublin Review_ for March, 1847, p. 212; _Quarterly Review_ for June, 1850.] [Footnote 14: _Oevres de Turgot_, Tom. IX. p. 140.] [Footnote 15: _Oeuvres de Condorcet_, par O'Connor, Tom. V. p. 162.] [Footnote 16: Sparks's _Works of Franklin_, Vol. VIII. p. 537; Mignet, _Notices et Portraits_, Tom. II. p. 480.] [Footnote 17: Cabania, _Oeuvres_, Tom. V. p. 251.] [Footnote 18: _Lettres de Madame Du Deffant_, Tom. III. p. 367.] [Footnote 19: _Ibid_. Tom. IV. p. 35.] [Footnote 20: Lacretelle, _Histoire de France_, Tom. V. p. 90.] [Footnote 21: _Oeuvres de Condorcet_, par O'Connor, Tom. V. pp. 406, 407.] [Footnote 22: Capefigue, _Louis XVI_, Tom. II. pp. 12, 13, 42, 49, 50. The rose-water biographer of Diane de Poitiers, Madame de Pompadour, and Madame du Barry would naturally disparage Franklin.] [Footnote 23: Mignet, _Notices at Portraits_, Tom. II. p. 427.] [Footnote 24: _La Gazette Secrete_, 15 Jan. 1777; Capefigue, _Louis XVI._, Tom. II. p. 15.] [Footnote 25: _Oeuvres de Turgot_, Tom. II. p. 66.] [Footnote 26: _Oeuvres de Turgot_, Tom. VIII. p. 496.] [Footnote 27: Vol. X. p. 107.]