David Steuart Erskine, Earl of Buchan (1742–1829)

... I feel a pride in the justice which your Lordship's sentiments render to the character of my illustrious countryman Washington: the moderation of his desires, and the strength of his judgment, enable him to calculate correctly, that the road to that glory which never dies, is to use power for the support of the laws and liberties of our country, not for their destruction; and His will accordingly survive the wreck of every thing now living ... (TJ to Buchan, 10 July 1803)

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I received through the hands of Mr. Lenox, on his return to the US, the valuable volume you were so good as to send me on the life of Fletcher of Saltoun. The political principles of that patriot were worthy the purest periods of the British constitution. They are those which were in vigour at the epoch of the American emigration. Our ancestors brought them here, and they needed little strengthening to make us what we are... I feel a pride in the justice which your lordship's sentiments render to the character of my illustrious countryman Washington.

(TJ to Earl of Buchan, 1803)
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