From the Richmond Compiler.
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The following is an extract of a letter to 4
gentleman in this city, from an Englishman
now TRAVELLING in the United States. 1t was
not written for publication but the senti
ments which it breaths are solibcral; it shows
so distinctly that there are English travel
lers among us, who will not misrepresent us,
as Faux, Fearon and others have done, chat
it is at your ser ice, to use it, it you think
proper. ] do it with the more pleasure,
because | am persuaded the sentiments
which are here expressed in private letter
are likely to be ushered forth in more pub
lie form and because, the writer who is the
admirer of our institutions has already been
publicly and absurdly denounced as their re
viler and calumnator. 1t is perhaps JUS
tice due him, as we'll as ourselves, to lay this
extract before your readers. | ought to add,
that although the extract is principally con
fined to Mr. Jefferson, yet the same iberalty
Of sentiment runs through all his correspond
ence, and all his conversations


Ertract Of a letter from an English gentle


man no7o in the United States:


1--WE arrived at Charlottesville on the
evening of the 18th, and were greeted inn
rnediately ON our arrival with q mountain
thunder storm.-The next day we visited
Monticello. We spent abont an hour with
tHS NCHeIdOle DldLcSmdH, anu lnei IIlttlnE
that he had an engagement. took our leave
The next morning we had the plcasuert
of receiving an invitation to dinner, which
you may suppose we did not declne--I wa.
highly delighted with Mr.. Jefferson, as ever,
man who loves science must be, whatever
be his political sentiments. But to one like
myself, who considers Mr.. Jefferson as til,
Apostle of those doctrines, and the autho
ofthose practices, which have tended to dem
onstrate the fact, that "man can govern him
SELF" because he has governed hiaaseLE-tha
State religion is useless because there ar
States 7ohere its abolition froducea no bat
conseqaenccs--to one, who looks upon hin
as one of the main pillars of that sacred ed
ihce erected on the Western Continent t.
equal rights, soci1l liberty, and christian
principles; to one, who admires him as til,
opponent of tyranny in the old world, and
the successful combattant of its germs from
the old roots in the new; to a man VIII
has all these principles in common with MI
jefferson, and who considers that in futur
times his name will be pronounced secon
only among the glorious founders of fire
states, populous beyond all present concep
tion; to me, he must appear as truly gres
man. 1 was highly delighted to see the Pre-
found and perfect acquaintance which
had with every science; and how he coul