1 must be so managed as to afford a facility of meeting his engagements, at all times, and that without any loss to those who hold his paper: and it is further quite material, that his fund, as well as the Stamina, on which depends its occasional repletion, should be so conducted and secured as to place both as much as possible beyond the reach of contingency. Now if Uncle Sam issues these notes, some portion of the revenue, which is least liable to be affected by any changes that can happen, must be pledged for their payment or redemption.-If, as I hear it whispered, we are about to have a contest with Bull, his superiority on the great waters will enable him to sweep our Commerce from the Ocean. Therefore to base your Notes on the revenue to be derived from commerce, would be the height of presumption. You must resort to taxes, Uncle Sam must place his independent farmers between his notes, and that destruction which would otherwise be inevitable. Pursue a different course, and you will shortly see your notes advertised with the prices current annexed, like other vendible property; the substantiated metals will be the standard, by which the relative value will be rated, and the fate of the continental money of the revolution, will be the fate of this. It will be in the end like the manna that fell in the wilderness, " He that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had enough.” I have no expectation, however, that any thing, that I have said or can say, will be regarded, this is not the place where important measures are projected, or decided on, in any other way than by mere form, what I have said is the result of my feelings and the motive which prompted me, a sense of duty." At the close of these remarks, her Ladyship took a huge pinch of Rappee, rung for a servant and asked if dinner was ready? being answered in the affirmative, the conference broke up, but it was evident that her Highness did not relish the sentiments of Tom, much less the boldness with which they were expressed. Some of the servants wondered at the impudence of the fellow, and one in particular was heard to say, in a low voice that he ought to be civilly kicked out of the dining-room. The cloth being removed the Chief Steward requested a closet interview with her Ladyship on business of importance. Jacques stated that Uncle Sam must be managed in this business with proper address, that he had been listening behind the door and heard the insolent language of Tom Boston. Now said he with the regard to the substantial means Tom is right; the course he has pointed out must be the one, we must finally pursue; but the present is not the time. Events must be ripened for the crisis. Thomas the wise, has said much against taxes, and Uncle Sam has been wonderfully pleased with the doctrine. You know, my Dear, we put old John Braintree out of office by decrying his tax and navy systems. We must be a little softly about this, we inust use policy. Let the contest be brought on immediately. This will set the family in agitation, then we can gag this Yankee scoundrel, and keep him from filling the ear of your beloved Spouse with his hypochondriac stuff, and if he will not assist, at least make him passiveby neutral. The same reason should apply with regard to the forces to carry on the contest. You know how much we all cried out against John for raising an army without any occasion. There was no war; we told Uncle Sam, that John had some evil design against his possessions: the old Gentleman's choler was inflamed; we raised the Devil about John's ears, he was glad to get out of the way, and by the same means we drove Uncle Sam's former wife out of the house and then posted her as the saying is as "Eloped from bed and Board." Whether these means were right or wrong, we were obliged to have recourse to them, at the time, in order to get possession of the places we now enjoy. We must go to war in some measure unprepared. We are placed in this sorry predicament, but we must work our way out of it, in the best manner we can. Bring on the contest, and then, we can enlist men, and it is not such a very great number that we shall want. I should be glad, indeed, if we were well out of this cursed scrape, --but I don't see how, we have said so much against Bull, and battered him so much with our tongues, in order to inflame your Husband against that cursed rogue Tom Boston, that we can't very easily back out. We have borne so many kicks from Nap that he completely despises us, however this we can bear with, and Bull has grown so intolerably insolent, that he cares no more for a proclamation than he does for a paper rag. And there's that Devlish Tom Boston would rib roast us eternally if we should give back now. A bad-a bad scrape, I wish we were well through it. But above all, we have been blowing the coals under Uncle Sam, until we have het him "hissing hot." We have been heating should flinch now we him for these ten years, if we should be put out of our places faster than we ever came into them. -An unlucky scrape, I wish we were out of it. Madam heard the Chief Steward with a great variety of emotions; whenever he came to a pause, she gulped the hot wind from her stomach like a steam engine, and when he had finished his remarks, she replied. I have had the same opinion with regard to most things; the humor of Uncle Sam must, as you say, be studied and managed. But we must not carry the joke too far; we have in many instances put his faith to a severe trial. When you declared the Berlin and Milan decrees revoked, the ad gentleman had to muster all his credulity to swallow the declaration. Nap dealt us rather a hard measure, when he required of us to make the world believe what he could make nobody believe, that he believed himself. However, we have but one course to pursue, the more the thing is denied, so much the more strongly we must assert it to be true. This was the plan Thomas pursued, and always succeeded. Another thing has been rather hard for Uncle Sam to swallow, the John Henry business. A pretty round sum, to pay for nothing. A scurvy fellow, that Henry, nothing but a take in; we must look out for such characters. A mere political swindler. Aye and what provokes me still more, the cursed Yankees laugh in the sleeve, and even throw it in our teeth, and when the scurvy fellows are reprimanded for their insolence, they turn up their faces and reply, You taught us to be saucy when you repealed the Sedition Law. It is furthermore not a little unfortunate for us that Thomas the wise before he left the Stewardship boasted that he had so much money, we shall find little enough before we get through this scrape. This was the weak side of this great man, he loved popularity to distrac |