“It is upwards of a week,” says Mr. Roscoe, in answer to the above letter,
“since I received the proof copy of my intended pamphlet, which had been sent you by my
printer, accompanied by your letter and very judicious remarks; but it was not
till yesterday that I had the pleasure of receiving the copies which you were
so good as to order to be sent me of your speech, for which I beg you to accept
my thanks, as well on my own account as for my friends, Mr. R. and Mr.
M., who will think themselves much honoured by your remembrance
of them. The perusal of this last noble effort on your part, to enlighten our
countrymen as to their true interests, has only confirmed the opinion I have so
long entertained of the perfect rectitude of your principles and the
correctness of your views. How it is possible for sophistry to misrepresent or
dulness to misconceive such statements is to me incomprehensible; such,
however, is the present state of the public mind, that the stronger the light
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“I have lost no time in comparing the passages marked by you in my pamphlet, with those which touch on the same subject in your speech, and in some instances I have implicitly adopted your recommendations, whilst in others I have ventured to adhere to the views I had before taken of the subject.”
