' He also tells me that Mr.
Adams, in a late conversation,said,' Republicanism must be disgraced,
'Sir.' The Chevalier Yrujo called on him at Braintree, and conversing on
French affairs, and Yrujo expressing his belief of their stability, in
opposition to Mr. Adamses, the latter lifting up and shaking his finger
at him, said, 'I'll tell you what, the French republic will not last
three months.' This I had from Yrujo.
Harper, lately in a large company, was saying that the best thing the
friends of the French could do, was to pray for the restoration of
their monarch. 'Then,' says a by-stander, 'the best thing we could do,
I suppose, would be to pray for the establishment of a monarch in the
United States.' 'Qur people,' says Harper, 'are not yet ripe for it, but
it is the best thing we can come to, and we shall come to it.' Something
like this was said in presence of Findlay. He now denies it in the
public papers, though it can be proved by several members.
December the 27th. Tench Coxe tells me, that a little before Hamilton
went out of office, or just as he was going out, taking with him his
last conversation, and among other things, on the subject of their
differences, 'For my part,' says he, 'I avow myself a monarchist; I have
no objection to a trial being made of this thing of a republic, but,'
&c.
January the 5th, 1798. I receive a very remarkable fact indeed, in
our history, from Baldwin and Skinner.
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