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and cement the ties of good will between the Citizens of the United States and the mother Country, as I have been taught from infancy to call England.
I am now an old man, near three score years; and in returning to the United States after so long an absence, I intend to publish my writings, which are more extensive than those of any man living, and which, circulated in every part of the globe, evidence my great desire to perpetuate lasting peace and friendship between the two great nations of the world, the Parent and child.
It is most embarrassing and inexplicable to me that, instead of being rewarded in England as I am entitled, and have been, I am charged with opposite sentiments.
I am most happy to assure Your Lordship that I hold the proof, from the highest authorities, that my efforts have been devoted, in the most assiduous manner, to doing good.
I know I will be most pleasing to Her Majesty Queen Victoria when my works are published. "The American Arctic expedition, in search of Sir John Franklin and his noble companions," is the result of my two years' labours.
I have one hundred pages of Franklin's Letters, and those of the Presidents of the United States to corroborate this event, one of the most pleasing of my life.
From 1818, when I was secretary to the American Embassy at the Court of St. Petersburg, to the present...