I read the letter and the memorial, and then explained from my own knowledge how numerous and how valuable were the services of my deceased friend, and expressed my regret at not being able to serve the Memorialist.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Turn to the faithful Memorialist, who so well knew the secrets of the king's heart, and who was himself an actor behind the curtain; turn to Clarendon, in his own Life, and we shall find that the power of the king was then as dubious as when he was an exile; and his feelings were so much racked, that he had nearly resolved on a last flight.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)"
Isaac Disraeli
"It follows," the audacious Memorialist said, "that the colonies have an equitable and just right to participate in the advantage of those fisheries," and the present English attempt to deprive the Massachusetts people of sharing in them was "an act highly unjust and injurious."
"Benjamin Franklin"
John Torrey Morse, Jr.