despite of cavilers, writing exaggerations against America, from the other
side of the Atlantic, we could now reckon american Byrons, and writers of
all arts, and sciences as good as any of the most civilized part of
Europe.

The sooner we will stop the mischief to the detriment of american, and
british writers, the sooner we will see the aurora, and the glory of
American Literature. If great writers had been neglected in their own
country, at the time they had no nation of the same language contending
with them; how can we expect that a new american Milton, will be
appreciated, or known, without an international law with which to protect
the writer? Modest writers have many other difficulties to get popularity,
without this great one: and even learned persons are meanly jealous of
the fame of a new writer! Such examples which we have in the republic of
letters, are the shame of belles letters! Walter Scott himself was unjust
in writing against the first productions of Byron. Had Addison never
written a criticism on the Paradise Lost, perhaps Milton himself might be
yet unknown, such is the ignorance in judging of great writers. The
plurality, apes the great critics. Where publishers can reprint the new
works of another nation, without paying for the manuscript, though they
may give a little remuneration to their country's writers of an acquired
reputation, they almost always decline from giving any thing to an unknown
genius. And can all the booksellers judge of a writer's merit? The
International Copy-right between two nations is as necessary as the
Copy-right between the writer, and the publisher of the same nation. The
man of genius being a mere child in business, he will always be the victim
of the wily book merchant, though there are gentlemen among all
professions. Besides, when we will be a little more civilized, it will not
be, even, permitted to re-print french, or italian works here, printed in
France or Italy, without the consent of the respective foreign writers.

The americans so susceptible (and better so, since susceptibility is a
sign of nice feeling) when travelers write, or speak of them, will they
neglect the glory of their National Literature, the best and greatest
glory of nations?

CHAPTER X.

CONCLUSION.

My readers, I hope, will pardon a new word I introduce in this chapter. It
is Unitedstatians. When this Union will spread herself, until the
continent of this new world will be unde