It selected, as its secret agent in London, Arthur Lee, who thus became the first diplomatic representative of the American nation. Not that Arthur was emblazoned to the world as an American ...

Mr. Arthur Lee' — JOHNSON — 'Too, too, too' (under his breath which was one of his habitual mutterings). Mr. Arthur Lee could not but be very obnoxious to Johnson, for he was not only a patriot, ...

So Arthur Lee philosophically spent a few quiet days at Burgos whiling away his time writing reports of his success to the Secret Committee and a memorial to the Spanish king.