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"Once habituated to get cheap bread, the people will never be satisfied to get it otherwise, and on the first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them." Burke died July 8, 1797. His was a character of unblemished purity, manly uprightness, and perfect disinterestedness.
In July, 1797, he married Louisa Catherine Johnson, a daughter of Joshua Johnson, of Maryland, who was then American consul at London. In a letter dated February 20, 1797, Washington commended him highly to the elder Adams, and advised the President elect not to withhold promotion from him because he was his son. He was accordingly appointed minister to Berlin in 1797.
In 1797, Weld wrote, "his chest is full; and his limbs, though rather slender, well shaped and muscular. His head is small, in which respect he resembles the make of a great number of his countrymen. His eyes are of a light grey colour; and in proportion to the length of his face, his nose is long. Mr.
Hardinge has been trying to make you both so simple in your language, that you turn up your noses at a profound sentiment, whenever you hear one." In 1797, the grandiose had by no means made the deep invasion into the everyday language of the country, that it has since done.
The only dashes which occur in his diary follow the date of Sunday, Sept. 10, 1797. Kegan Paul says that his writing to his friends "was probably an attempt to be stoical, but a real indulgence in the luxury of woe." To Holcroft, who, he knew, could appreciate his sorrow, he said, "I firmly believe that there does not exist her equal in the world.
I congratulate you most sincerely on your having been present at the most brilliant action which our naval history records, and on having had so distinguished a share in it. I am, dear sir, with great truth, Your very obedient, humble servant, Admiralty, 8th March 1797. Sir James Saumarez.
Abigal Hunt Snelling was born at Watertown, Mass., January 23d, 1797. Her father's name was Thomas Hunt, Colonel of the First Regiment of Infantry, U. S. A., stationed then at Fort Wayne, Indiana, to which place his little daughter was taken when only six weeks old.
Derby, Oct. 9, 1797. Dear Sir, On the best inquiry I have been able to make to-day, I cannot hear that the small-pox is in Derby.
No doubt the trio were well satisfied for a time with their carefully considered scheme. The pamphlet published in 1797, called "The History of the United States for 1796," and edited by a disreputable man named Callender, was the concentrated essence of Jacobinical fury and vindictiveness against Alexander Hamilton.
The indomitable Tone rejoined his chief on the Rhine, where, to his infinite regret, Hoche died the following month September 18th, 1797 of a rapid consumption, accelerated by cold and carelessness. "Hoche," said Napoleon to Barry O'Meara at Saint Helena, "was one of the first generals France ever produced. He was brave, intelligent, abounding in talent, decisive and penetrating.
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