ne of your islands; a Regicide ambassador in London will be at
all your meetings of West India merchants and planters, and, in effect,
in all our colonial councils. Not one order of Council can hereafter be
made, or any one act of Parliament relative to the West India colonies
even be agitated, which will not always afford reasons for protests and
perpetual interference; the Regicide Republic will become an integral
part of the colonial legislature, and, so far as the colonies are
concerned, of the British too. But it will be still worse: as all our
domestic affairs are interlaced more or less intimately with our
external, this intermeddling must everywhere insinuate itself into all
other interior transactions, and produce a copartnership in our domestic
concerns of every description.

Such are the plain, inevitable consequences of this arrangement of a
system, of analogous interior government. On the other hand, without it,
the author assures us, and in this I heartily agree with him, "that the
correspondence and communications between the neighboring colonies will
be great, that the disagreements will be incessant, and that causes even
of national quarrels will arise _from day to day_." Most true. But, for
the reasons I have given, the case, if possible, will be worse by the
proposed remedy, by the triple fraternal interior analogy,--an analogy
itself most fruitful, and more foodful than the old Ephesian statue with
the three tier of breasts. Your Lordship must also observe how
infinitely this business must be complicated by our interference in the
slow-paced Saturnian movements of Spain and the rapid parabolic flights
of France. But such is the disease,--such is the cure,--such is, and
must be, the effect of Regicide vicinity.

But what astonishes me is, that the negotiator, who has certainly an
exercised understanding, did not see that every person habituated to
such meditations must necessarily pursue the train of thought further
than he has carried it, and must ask himself whether what he states so
truly of the necessity of our arranging an analogous interior
government, in consequence of the vicinity of our possessions, in the
West Indies, does not as extensively apply, and much more forcibly, to
the circumstance of our much nearer vicinity with the parent and author
of this mischief. I defy even his acuteness and ingenuity to show me any
one point in which the cases differ, except that it is plainly more
necess