They have taken the
allies at their word, that they had no object in the war but his
removal. The nation is now free to give itself a good government, either
with or without a Bourbon; and France unsubdued, will still be a bridle
on the enterprises of the combined powers, and a bulwark to others. T.J.
LETTER CXXIX.--TO DABNEY CARR, January 19, 1816
TO DABNEY CARR.
Monticello, January 19, 1816.
Dear Sir,
At the date of your letter of December the 1st, I was in Bedford, and
since my return, so many letters, accumulated during my absence, having
been pressing for answers, that this is the first moment I have been
able to attend to the subject of yours. While Mr. Girardin was in
this neighborhood writing his continuation of Burke's History, I had
suggested to him a proper notice of the establishment of the committee
of correspondence here in 1773, and of Mr. Carr, your father, who
introduced it. He has doubtless done this, and his work is now in the
press. My books, journals of the times, &c. being all gone, I have
nothing now but an impaired memory to resort to for the more particular
statement you wish. But I give it with the more confidence, as I find
that I remember old things better than new. The transaction took place
in the session of Assembly of March 1773. Patrick Henry, Richard Henry
Lee, Frank Lee, your father, and myself, met by agreement, one evening,
about the close of the session, at the Raleigh Tavern, to consult on
the measures which the circumstances of the times seemed to call for.
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