ll be particularly agreeable
and thoroughly republican, and most eminently modest and praiseworthy.
You will find the diplomatic agents of all other states sensitive on the
point of their peculiar political usages, and prompt to defend them;
but this is a weakness you will rigidly abstain from imitating, for our
polity being exclusively based on reason, you are to show a dignified
confidence in the potency of that fundamental principle, nor in any way
lessen the high character that reason already enjoys, by giving any
one cause to suspect you think reason is not fully able to take care of
itself. With these leading hints, and your own natural tendencies,
which I am glad to see are eminently fitted for the great objects of
diplomacy--being ductile, imitative, yielding, calculating, and, above
all, of a foreign disposition--I think you will be able to get on very
cleverly. Cultivate, above all things, your foreign dispositions, for
you are now on foreign duty, and your country reposes on your shoulders
and eminent talents the whole burden of its foreign interests in this
part of the world."

Here the judge closed his address, which was oral, apparently well
satisfied with himself and with his raw-hand in diplomacy. He then
said--

"That he would now go to court to present his substitute, and to take
leave himself; after which he would return as fast as possible, and
detain us no longer than was necessary to put his cauda in pepper, to
protect it against the moths; for heaven knew what prize he might draw
in the next turn of the little wheel!"

We promised to meet him at the port, where a messenger just then
informed us Captain Poke had landed, and was anxiously waiting our
appearance. With this understanding we separated; the judge undertaking
to redeem all our promises paid in at the tavern, by giving his own in
their stead.

The brigadier and myself found Noah and the cook bargaining for some
private adventures with a Leaphigh broker or two, who, finding that the
ship was about to sail in ballast, were recommending their wares to the
notice of these two worthies.

"It would be a ra'al sin, Sir John," commenced the captain, "to neglect
an occasion like this to turn a penny. The ship could carry ten thousand
immigrants, and they say there are millions of them going over to
Leaplow; or it might stow half the goods in Aggregation. I'm resolved,
at any rate, to use my cabin privilege; and I would advise you, as
owner,