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pen; for it is not infrequent for delicacy to conceal truth in many instances. And I am sorry to add, that I have occasion to exceed such bounds by having no other alternative. When I say that a loud passionate voice, as in a fit of phrenzy is frequently heard for a quarter of a mile, making use not only of a tyrannical language, but descending down to the most out of the way expression, for to rule a colony, then you may draw out an extreme. This being so common, and so often exaggerated, that it often-times ends in a mere farce. Though it may on the present moment strike the mind with awe, yet it gives great room for censure, which in course of time will have such an effect, so as to obstruct legal authority.
The hints and observations towards improvement, are what occurred in my own mind as the best of my judgement. But in which I do not say that I am altogether right, as at a more early age I had such a good opinion of some things, which at present I consider as reverse. In all such cases I now give way to the majority of different opinions; yet in some instances we have the proof of the opinion of single individuals being by far better than the majority of voices, but these instances are so rare, as scarcely to be brought in question.
In such an account I can not expect that you will approve of every passage, yet in some respects I flatter myself some parts will meet with your approbation, and from which you will derive such information, as is not likely to be communicated through any other channel. However let it be understood, that it is the sentiments of one who is an admirer of the improvements in the different arts! A lover of his country and a friend to national liberty; And on the contrary, a foe to peculation and tyranny.