ABSTRACT
R.W.R. Emerson said to Coleridge that he had many readers of all religious opinions in America, and he proceeded to inquire if the “extract” from the Independent’s pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation. Coleridge replied, that it was really taken from a pamphlet in his possession, entitled “A Protest of one of the Independents,” or something to that effect. There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights, namely, itch, pox, and famine. Whereas, in Malta, the force of law and mind was seen, in making that barren rock of semi-Saracen inhabitants the seat of population and plenty.’ According to Emerson, his visit was rather a spectacle than a conversation, of no use beyond the satisfaction of his curiosity.
