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The coal of Pennsylvania the iron in various parts of the Union the copper of Lake Superior the lead about Galena on the Mississippi; and lastly, the gold of California, which has already put in circulation a coinage of 15,000,000l. sterling all these are but the first tapping of almost boundless resources. "In 1791, the public debt of the United States was $75,000,000.
Take care, however, to get it back and preserve it, as it is one of Freneau's. I send you also three of Freneau's papers, which, with that sent this morning, are all he has published. I wish them to be preserved. If you find them amusing, you may command them regularly. Adieu. Philadelphia, 14th November, 1791. I am to-day in much better heart than at any time since I left New-York.
In 1790 Burke published his "Reflections," and on May 6, 1791, in a passionate outbreak in the House of Commons, he renounced his friendship with Fox as a traitor to his order and his God.
There was one more entry, in a feeble, illiterate female hand: "Guy Halifax, died January 4, 1781." "What shall I write, John?" said I, after a minute or so of silence. "I'll tell you presently. Can I get you a pen?" He leaned on my shoulder with his left hand, but his right never once let go of the precious book. "Write 'Muriel Halifax, died January 1, 1791." "Nothing more?" "Nothing more."
At Christmas, Bouillé sent his eldest son to Paris to arrange details with him. During the first months of 1791, which were the last of his life, the ascendancy of Mirabeau rose so rapidly that the king wavered between him and Breteuil. In February, La Marck appeared at Metz, to lay Mirabeau's bolder plan before the soldier on whose sword its execution was to depend.
Early in 1791 Russell proceeded to Belfast to join the 64th Regiment, in which he had obtained a commission; before leaving Dublin he appears to have become a member of the Society of United Irishmen, and in Belfast he soon won the friendship and shared the councils of the patriotic men who were labouring for Ireland in that city. While in Belfast, Russell fell into pecuniary embarrassments.
He was consigned to retreat in the Castle of Dijon ; he had become a weariness to official mankind. He took part in fencing matches with great success, and in 1791 his library was sold at Christie's, with his swords and jewels. The catalogue bears the motto, from Juvenal, Quale decus rerum, si virginis auctio fiat, no doubt selected by the learned little man.
Adieu, my dear aunt; all the sick pale figures around me with faint voices send their love to you and my uncle. MARIA to MR. RUXTON. Dec. 29, 1791. My Dear Uncle If you are going to the canal put this letter in your pocket, and do not be troubled in your conscience about reading it, but keep it till you are perfectly at leisure: for I have nothing strange or new to tell you.
Because of his pleasing personality, his prosperity and business strength, and his marriage connections with another race and religion, he was held in respect and popularity by all classes, irrespective of nationality or creed. It was therefore but natural that he should enter political life after the granting of the Constitutional Act by the Home Government in 1791.
"The loss of Lassonne and Campan," said she, as she applied her handkerchief to her streaming eyes, "has taught me how valuable such subjects are to their masters. I shall never find their equals." I resumed my functions about the Queen on the 1st of September, 1791.
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