Disappointed in their expectation at [of?] seeing the siege
raised, they surrendered at discretion.
Judge, my dear Sir, of our surprise at finding your censure directed
against those whose only crime was in accusing the ministers of not
having prevented your demands by our graces, of not having given you the
natural advantages of your country in the most ample, the most early,
and the most liberal manner, and for not having given away authority in
such a manner as to insure friendship. That you should make the
panegyric of the ministers is what I expected; because, in praising
their bounty, you paid a just compliment to your own force. But that you
should rail at us, either individually or collectively, is what I can
scarcely think a natural proceeding. I can easily conceive that
gentlemen might grow frightened at what they had done,--that they might
imagine they had undertaken a business above their direction,--that,
having obtained a state of independence for their country, they meant to
take the deserted helm into their own hands, and supply by their very
real abilities the total inefficacy of the nominal government. All these
might be real, and might be very justifiable motives for their
reconciling themselves cordially to the present court system.
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