They say we wrote brave notes and made courageous demands, to none of which a satisfactory reply has come, but only more outrages and no guarantee for the future.

Yet we will not even show our displeasure by sending Bernstorff home.

We've simply "gone out," like a snuffed candle, in the regard and respect of the vast volume of British opinion.

(The last _Punch_ had six ridiculing allusions to our "fall.") It's the loneliest time I've had in England.

There's a tendency to avoid me.
They can't understand here the continued declaration in the United States that the British Government is trying to take our trade--to use its blockade and navy with the direct purpose of giving British trade profit out of American detentions.