...America. She consequently issued her prohibition. sibly this pretext of humanity, advanced by Catherine, only disguised her unwillingness to have the new possessions...seen by an enlightened citizen of the United States. TKe above, however, were the reasons she advanced to me." • ;•• / .:• ^A. c j-,if> Few will...

...great scruple regarding human life, the French cTiplomat shrewdly suspected that all this fine talk "only disguised her unwillingness to have the new possessions of Russia, on the western coasts of America, seen by an enlightened citizen of the United States." The indefatigable Ledyard...

...friend from his Paris days, the Marquis de Lafayette, and reported that the empress's actions probably "disguised her unwillingness to have the new possessions...seen by an enlightened citizen of the United States." Ledyard, of course, did not know this as he was hurried under armed escort to the Polish frontier....

...not necessarily believe her, as he added, "Possibly this pretext of humanity advanced by Catherine only disguised her unwillingness to have the new possessions...Russia on the western coast of America seen by an englightened citizen of the United States. The above however were the reasons she advanced to me."...

...She consequently issued her prohibition. Possibly this pretext of humanity, advanced by Catherine, only disguised her unwillingness to have the new possessions...America, seen by an enlightened citizen of the United Sates. The above, however, were the reasons she advanced to me." Few will doubt, probably, that the...

...Catherine, — was not the dupe of this pretext. He intimates, that she only attempted to disguise, by it, " her unwillingness to have the new possessions of Russia,...seen by an enlightened citizen of the United States." Mr. Sparks adopts Segur's interpretation, and annexes this natural comment. " Moreover, the plea of...