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5336. MONARCHY, Colonists and.—[continued].

I am satisfied that the
King of England believes the mass of our people
to be tired of their independence, and desirous
of returning under his government, and that
the same opinion prevails in the ministry and
nation. They have hired their newswriters to
repeat this lie in their gazettes so long, that they
have become the dupes of it themselves.—
To John Jay. Washington ed. ii, 305.
(P. 1787)