Excerpt from The Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Vol. 1 of 5: Lord Viscount Bolingbroke
I was well enough acquainted with the general character of mankind, and in particular with that of my own countrymen, to expert to be as much out of the minds of the tories during my exile, as if we had never lived and acted together. I depended on being forgot by them, and was far from imagining it possible that I mould be remembered, only to be condemned loudly by one half of them, and to be tacitly censured by the greatest part of the other half. As loon as I was separated from the pretender and his interest, I declared myself to be so, and I gave directions for writing into England what I judged sufficient to put my friends on their guard against any surprise concerning an event which it was their interest, as well as mine, that they mould be very rightly informed about.
As soon as the pretender"s adherents began to clamor against me in this country, and to disperse their scandal by circular letters every where else, I gave directions for writing into England again.
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