It may appear surprising that men, petted as they have been and indulged in every thing they could desire, should wish for a change.

But so it is--and I am apt to think that were Englishmen placed in the same situation, they would shew even more impatience to escape from French rule.

How essentially different are the feelings of the people from when I first knew them.

The idea prevails generally among them, that Napoleon must succeed, and ultimately get possession of these provinces.

The bold and violent are becoming every day more audacious; and the timid, with that impression, think it better and more prudent to withdraw altogether from the society of the English, rather than run the chance of being accused hereafter of partiality to them.