Letters of William Lee Author:William Lee Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: have delivered it by this time. All the travellers are well, and join in sincere good wishes for their old fellow-traveller. 'Tis certainly better to be born ... more »fortunate than rich. I n and R—dl—ly sent a little vessel, that when they bo't her was called the Mary Carrol, to Lisbon. She loaded with salt, when vessel and cargo was not worth £600 sterling. She went to Maryland, sold her salt at £10 currency a bushel, which bro't 25,000 currency. She has returned with tobacco, that will nett 7000 sterling, and left above 20,000 currency in the country. Astonishing as this is, it is certainly true. You'll observe that she was British property, which proves that some people had better steal a horse than look over the hedge. Think of the noise that was made in 1775 by some people about a book and a piece or two of linen. TO RICHARD HENRY LEE. Paris, 28 February, 1778. The unexpected and unlucky return of Mr. Deane gives me a moment to send you the inclosed copies of some former letters and also copies of the correspondence between Mr. Ross and me relative to Mr. Morris's papers, which will give you the facts so far, to fonn your judgment onf. Tho' Iwish to avoid all comment on these extraordinary productions, yet it is impossible to forbear observing how this insignificant Scotch pedlar talks as if America was all his own, and Congress his instruments only. Strange indeed it would be if a North Briton should accomplish by assurance what his countrymen have not been able to do by force of arms. He knows best what he means by insinuating that treasonable correspondence was to be found amongst Mr. Morris's papers; at all events I can't conceive that Mr. R. Morris or any other connection of the deceased ought to be much obliged to him. It was much against my own wishes that I we...« less