Since the Despatches were published, the trimmers among
the Jacobins have pretended to be converted. The town of
Boston has been so decidedly anti-French, that the SuUivans,
and the Winthrops, and the Master Vinals, the leaders of
fifties and hundreds, joined the vox populi, as it was natural
they should ; but the c^tuns of thousands, the Honesti, Jar-
vis, and old S. Adams, remain unchanged.
If any point is really conceded by that party, it is that of
a navy, which they admit to be wise and right, perhaps with
the sole view of insisting the more on the usdessness and
danger of armies, which, besides, can go after rebels by land,
which ships cannot. In the heart of even the proselytes the
same rancor still lurks. The mission is the darling measure
of them all. The Jacobins in the vicinity of Boston are as
openly bitter as ever, though rather less clamorous, and, on
the whole, the rabiea eamna of Jacobinism has gradually
■pread, of late years, from the cities, where it was confined
* to do«ks and mob, to the country. I think it is still spread-
ing silently, and why should it not \ All that is base is of
course Jacobin, and all that is prgndice, and jealousy, and
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