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He was a frequent buyer of fruit of all kinds and of melons. He was very fond of nuts, buying hazelnuts and shellbarks by the barrel, and he wrote his overseer in 1792 to "tell house Frank I expect he will lay up a more plenteous store of the black common walnuts than he usually does."
His reception here we shall consider hereafter. When the last session of the second Congress commenced in Philadelphia on the fifth of November, 1792, ominous clouds were gathering in the political horizon, which gave Washington many apprehensions of an impending storm.
The beautiful fragments we have of Lord Chatham are rather traditional than recorded; there are but two, I believe, of the speeches of Mr. Pitt corrected by himself, those on the Budget of 1792, and on the Union with Ireland; Mr. Fox committed to writing but one of his, namely, the tribute to the memory of the Duke of Bedford; and the only speech of Mr.
They left the Tuileries in such haste that they failed to give orders to the faithful Garde Municipale, who would have suffered the fate of the Swiss Guard in 1792, had not National Guards in the crowd assisted them to change their conspicuous uniforms and to escape out of the windows.
The tenth decade of the eighteenth century was as much a decade of historians as the eighth had been a decade of poets; and with Milman and Tytler born in 1791, Alison in 1792, Grote in 1794, Arnold and Carlyle in 1795, Thirlwall in 1797, and Macaulay in 1800, it may probably challenge comparison with any period of equal length.
I have concluded this letter with a very unpleasant subject, but my pen is guided by circumstances, and I do not invent, but communicate. Adieu. Yours, &c. Arras, September 1, 1792.
There is a show, indeed, of consulting her in the special decrees which deprive her of two-thirds of her elective rights but, as in 1792 and in 1793, it is so contrived that she consents, or seems to consent, to this arrangement. In the first place, they relied on the majority of electors abstaining from a response.
In the obituary for 1792, we find the following paragraph: "Died at his house in Putney, aged seventy-three, Sir Nicholas Copperas, Knt., a gentleman well known on the Exchange for his facetious humour. Several of his bons-mots are still recorded in the Common Council.
He began quite independently, as we have seen, with a course of lectures upon the theory of tragedy. The lectures were never published, but the cream of them is probably contained in two essays, 'On the Rational Basis of Pleasure in Tragic Themes', and 'On the Tragic Art', which were contributed to the New Thalia in 1792.
"At TURIN, 12th September 1790." The nobility of Languedoc learned of the honours conferred on their countryman, M. Froment, and addressed the following letter to him: "LORCH, July 7, 1792 "MONSIEUR, The nobles of Languedoc hasten to confirm the resolution adopted in your favour by the nobles assembled at Turin.
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