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THE

GLORY AND SHAME

OF

ENGLAND.

BY AN AMERICAN.

VOL. I.

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THE

GLORY AND SHAME

OF

ENGLAND.

BY C. EDWARDS LESTER.

IN TWO VOLUME S.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1841.

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PRINTED BY SCHULZE AND co. 13, POLAND STREET.

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TO THE

REV. JOEL TYLER HEADLY.

WHAT I have here written, my dear Headly, I inscribe to you: would it were more worthy of being dedicated to one of my early-one of my best friends. But I am persuaded you will generously overlook its faults, as you have my own. In a treacherous world, you have never deceived me. In my reverses of fortune I have ever been cheered by your sympathy; in my prosperity you have ever rejoiced.

Since first we met on the peaceful shores of Oneida, we have gone forth to mingle with the world-to be deceived by its flattery and wounded by its selfishness; to struggle with its stormy passions, and meet its stern realities. How often, amid the duties of a profession

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