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NYG-A.782.008
18 Nov 1782:23 (1/25)
[In an essay entitled "To the Earl of Shelburne," discussing
the various propositions for establishing peace, the
following passage:]
But for England to receive any thing from America now,
after so many insults, injuries and outrages, acted toward
us, would shew such a spirit of meanness in her, that we
could not but dispise her for accepting it. And so far from
Lord Shelburne coming here to solicit it, it would be the
greatest disgrace we could do them to offer it. . . [20
lines] He would be no more than the Mungo of the farce, and
if he disliked that, he must set off. It would be a station
of degradation debased by our pity, and dispised by our
pride, and would place England in a more contemptible
situation than any she has yet suffered by the war. . .
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