Mr.Girard directed all his efforts to this object, and had the good fortune to effect it.
"But the English faction of tories subsisted.

It was powerful from the credit of its chiefs." In a note on this passage, he says, "The most influential were Samuel Adams and Richard Lee, (Richard H.Lee,) the brother of Arthur Lee, one of the deputies of congress in France.

He was convicted of having secret intelligence with the British minister." It would be injustice to the memoirs of these distinguished patriots to attempt their vindication against this atrocious and unfounded calumny.

A calumny supported by no testimony, nor by a single circumstance wearing even the semblance of probability, and confuted by the whole tenour of their lives.

The annals of the American revolution do not furnish two names more entirely above suspicion than Samuel Adams and Richard Henry Lee.