6856. PRADT (Abbe de), Writings of.—
Of the character of M. de Pradt his political
writings furnish a tolerable estimate, but
not so full as you have favored me with. He
is eloquent, and his pamphlet on colonies shows
him ingenious. I was gratified by his Recit
Historique, because, pretending, as all men do,
to some character, and he to one of some distinction,
I supposed he would not place before the world facts of glaring falsehood, on which
so many living and distinguished witnesses
could convict him.—
To John Quincy Adams. Washington ed. vii, 87.
(M.
1817)
