. Benjamin Franklin: his autobiography : with a narrative of his public life and services. y another severe review, andto allude again in strong terms to the proceedingsof the rioters, to whom he seemed disposed to giveno quarter. Whatever opposition to Franklin patriots wereled into by the doubtful circumstances of the times,all was removed by the events of his sojourn in En-gland. Dr. William Smith, the provost of the Phil-adelphia College, some years after wrote : Underwhatever circumstances this second mission was un-dertaken, it appears to have been a measure preor-dained of Heaven; and i
. Benjamin Franklin: his autobiography : with a narrative of his public life and services. y another severe review, andto allude again in strong terms to the proceedingsof the rioters, to whom he seemed disposed to giveno quarter. Whatever opposition to Franklin patriots wereled into by the doubtful circumstances of the times,all was removed by the events of his sojourn in En-gland. Dr. William Smith, the provost of the Phil-adelphia College, some years after wrote : Underwhatever circumstances this second mission was un-dertaken, it appears to have been a measure preor-dained of Heaven; and it will be forever remem-bered to the honor of Pennsylvania, that the agentselected to assert and defend the rights of a singleprovince at the court of Great Britain, became thebold assertor of the rights of America in general, and, LIFE OF FRANKLIN. 343 beholding the fetters that were forging for her, con-ceived the magnanimous thought of rending themasunder before they could be riveted. On the 7th of November, in less than a fortnightafter his appointment, Franklin embarked at Chester. for England. A cavalcade of three hundred of hisfriends attended him to that place, where a most af-fectionate leave was taken of him. The expensesof his agency the merchants of Philadelphia sub-scribed, as a loan, to be reimbursed by the next As-sembly ; and all the efforts which had been made tooppose and to injure, served but to give his departurethe air of a triumph, and to assure him of the una-bated confidence of those who knew him best, andof all people except those in the interest of the pro-prietaries, or in sympathy from mistaken views withthe malcontents. 344 LIFE OF FRANKLIN. CHAPTER XIX. The attachment of Benjamin Franklin to his fam-ily and friends, and the efforts he continually madeto serve them, by imparting advice, the result of hisexperience, often appears in his correspondence. Aletter, written to his daughter on the eve of his de-parture for England, though often quoted, and
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