45 prepossessions where the scholars are so numerous & the instructors so few. But I wish I may prove wrong in these opinions, & that our sons may see so many millions added to the supporters of public Liberty. From France my friends write me she had never SO fair a chance of ob taining & maintaining a liberal system fitted to their light & fickle char- acter, than at the present moment, indeed, better than that character qual- - ifies them for, For millions pant to be again under the rigours & robberies, & splendours of the laterulers. I have had a serious trial of illness. Eight months confinement to room has been one of the consequences of a severe attack of Dysentry in Sept- ember last, from which, thank God, I am (tho' slowly) recovering. This sub- ject naturally recalls your kind felicitations on my marriage, which has proven one of the happiest events of my life. Medical aid had done all that art cou'd no, but the affectionate solicitude of a good wife has been more efficacious to me than the whole of their pharmacopeia. Mrs. C. has full as much respect & regard, & good wishes, for your daughter as I have for her father, & desires to be affectionately remembered to her & to yourself. I see your estimable son, Robert, whenever he comes to New York, & generally spends a day with us. I am happy to and that, in my guagment, he possesses all the qualities necessary to render him a successful & respect- able man of business. Accept my best regards & believe me, Dr. Simms, Yours sincerely, J. Chambers. Mrs. C. requests she may have her best compliments & respects pre- sented to Miss Cunningham, for whom she has a high esteem. (Adressed to "Robt. Simms, Esq. Belfast. Honoured per Mrs. Arm- strong.) Dear Simms, New York, 1st Jany. 1822. Many happy returns of the present season to my old friend I wrote to you in May last by Mrs. Armstrong, & in afew weeks after, proceeded to various parts of the country in pursuit of health & strength, & returned here in the beginning of November, much improved in both. My Dublin friends have sent me all the papers which detail the King's reception, &c. in Dublin, & I must confess they afforded much gratification, as well from the unprecedented nature of them, as from the beneficial effects which they have, & are likely to produce in allaying that abominable spirit which has distracted our unhappy country for so many years. Remote as I am from the scene, I may form erroneous opinions, but many things appear on the part of the King & his Ministers, as the dictates of good sense & a wise feel ing towards the parties. The knighting Lord Fingal was of that character, The reception of the catholic Bishops as Bishops, & the treatment of Aldmn Darley, were all directed by a wise & equitable spirit, & it is but conson- ant with reason to conclude that if these things are not productive of allthe good we wou'd wish, they will be an entering wedge to obtain more. The giv- ing the poor dispirited Catholics courage to beard their enemies, will be alone a great gift, & a new & necessary privilege. But you Presbyterians appear to have put some 022 kind of senti- ments into your Address. "Planted in the North for the Civilization of a rude & refractory Province, &c." This appears to be very consolotary incee^ o the poor people who were ouster of their honest property language