A Critical Examination of the Writings of Richard Cumberland (Volume 2); Also Memoirs of His Life. and an Appendix, Containing Twenty-Six of His Original Letters, Relating to a Transaction Not Mentioned in His Memoirs (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1812 Excerpt: ... XXVI. Tetworth, near Biggleswade, July 28,1775. Dear Sir, Your letter of the 10th of May, after a silence of so longstanding, gave me much satisfaction, and I should have received much more from it, if your zeal for America and its cause had allowed you room and disposition to have informed me of yourself and your affairs. You are silent as to your family, and all that concerns a friend and well-wisher to hear; but you are very particular and diffusive in your description of the action at Concord, and the inhumanity of your late countrymen, the English troops. One enquiry, however, I had at heart, which by implication your letter answers, and that is, when your friends in England may expect your return; this I can plainly see will not be till Mr. Hancock and Mr. Adams take lodgings at St. James's, for you are as true an American as ever I met with, so thoroughly have you assimilated yourself to the soil and sentiments to which you have been trans-: planted. I make no reply to the list of savage enormities, the rapine, plunder, and barbarous indignities to the mangled bodies of the dead, with which your information loads the military, which, in general, is composed of the most humane, and always of the most brave amongst your countrymen and mine; time must have cleared up the truth to you in this particular, even through the medium of New England misrepresentation; and you will now have another account to lament over of the action on the 17th of June, in which the same tale of horror will be repeated, and the same Te Deums sung by the victorious Bostonians; but I still repeat to you, that time will clear your error and alter your sentiments. To give you my ideas, wide as they stand off from your own, would be quite useless and laborious to us both. I deplore...