the professions made beforehand by the moderate
part of the opposition, that such measures would quiet
the minds of the people,) he has had art enough to
improve them to raise the people higher by assuring
them, if they will but persevere, they may bring the
nation to their own terms; and the people are more
easily induced to a compliance from the declaration
made, that they are assured by one or two gentlemen
in England, on whose judgment they can depend,
that nothing more than a firm adhesion to their de-
mands is necessary to obtain a compliance with every
one of them. Could he have been made dependent,
I am not sure that he might not have been taken off
by an appointment to some public civil office. But,
as the constitution of the Province is framed, such an
appointment would increase his abilities, if not his
disposition to do mischief, for he well knows that I
have not a Council which in any case would consent
to his removal, and nobody can do more than he to
prevent my ever having such a Council."

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