Hostile feelings to the Americans having been imputed to the
poet MOORE in the first number of the (London) Westminster
Review, the following paragraph appeared in the London Times
of the 4th Feb., 1824.
"In the first number of the Westminster Review, just
published, there is an article upon a late work of Mr.
Moore's, in which the writer says, 'Mr. Moore has resided in
America, and, we understand, speaks of the Americans with
unbounded dislike and contempt.' In this assertion we can
confidently state, the writer is entirely mistaken. Whatever
opinions Mr. Moore may have hastily formed, when a very
young man, with respect to the character and institutions of
the Americans, we know that he has long since learned to
correct them, and to feel towards that people all the
admiration and respect which the noble example they set to
the other nations of the world demands."
_Boston Telegraph,_ 1824.
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From the "Salem Gazette," Sept. 6, 1811.