General Grant has written a most kindly letter to a
friend in Pennsylvania, Mr. G. W. Childs, expressing his plea- sure at the cordial welcome he has met with in England, where he says the cities have overwhelmed him with invita- tions. He attributes his reception to cordial feeling towards his country, and says, with some naivete, "I love to see our country known and respected abroad." There can be no doubt that the reception has been most warm, in spite of a little difficulty in set- tling the General's precise rank—does he rank with the ex-Emperor Napoleon, as the American Legation maintains, or only as a General 7—and equally little that General Grant increases this warmth by his personal demeanour. Englishmen were hardly aware until they saw the ex-President how unscrupulously he bad been libelled in his own country, or how exactly he was what his admirers described him before his first election,—a man the first elements in whose character are simplicity and directness. His well-known speech, " I shall fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer," is the best description of the impression he creates.
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