They see and feel this, the same thing which you too see and feel,—that there is one man in
 whom all qualities are in the highest perfection, and that he is near, (which circumstance makes
 it seem harder to be deprived of him,) by whose mere arrival and name, although it was a
 maritime war for which he came, they are nevertheless aware that the attacks of the enemy were
 retarded and repressed. They then, since they cannot speak freely, silently entreat you to think
 them (as you have thought your allies in the other provinces) worthy of having their safety
 recommended to such a man; and to think them worthy even more than others, because we often send
 men with absolute authority into such a province as theirs, of such character, that, even if
 they protect them from the enemy, still their arrival among the cities of the allies is not very
 different from an invasion of the enemy. They used to hear of him before, now they see him among
 them; a man of such moderation, such mildness, such humanity, that those seem to be the happiest
 people among whom he remains for the longest time.