- Huygens, the younger
- Rush— Richard
Morning visits from Mr Huygens, the Chargé d’Affaires from the king
of Holland—and from Mr Rush— Huygens told me that his father was now at Copenhagen,
where he had been minister from the Batavian Republic, many years. We
conversed upon European Affairs, and the great defeat of the Turkish Sultan’s army, by Ibrahim the Son of the Bashaw of Egypt— I told Huygens I hoped
Constantinople would soon become a European and a Christian City, and
that the Religion of Mahomet would
become extinct like the Paganism of the Greeks, and Romans— The
imposture of Mahomet, and the influence it has exercised over the
opinions and the history of mankind, are among the impenetrable
mysteries of Providence— Mr Rush said he had
nearly completed the sale of his House, and should return home next
week— He has had one or more interviews with Mr Van
Buren, which may possibly have some influence on his
future 52political opinions and conduct. I returned
the visits of Mr Van Buren, and his Son, by Cards— Went to
judge Cranch’s house, where
I acknowledged a Deed from the Executors of Ward N. Boylston to Daniel
T. Brigham, Isaac
Davis and Perley
Goddard, of Lands in Princeton; but afterwards thinking it
imperfect, I enclosed it to my Son Charles. I completed the revisal of the Report of the
Committee of Manufactures (that is of the Minority) printed as a
Congressional Document; but have not been able to dispose of my time
these three days, as I had predetermined— I see by an extract from the
Hingham Gazette in the Boston Press this day received, that my Election
to Congress will be opposed on the ground of anti-masonry.