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PRINTED FOR JOHN MILLER, BURLINGTON ARCADE,
AND FOR MITCHELL, AMES, AND WHITE, PHILADELPHIA.

1819.
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FRINTED BY W. SMITH, KING STREET, LONG ACRE.

DEDICATION.

To ROBERT OLIVER, Esq.

OF BALTIMORE.

DEAR SIR,

THIS is a clumsy volume, and its tenor may not be exactly in unison with your opinions and predilections. I could, therefore, have wished to attach your name rather to its intended adjunct, which may have higher claims to regard: but I am anxious to improve the first opportunity of bearing public testimony to a character, which an acquaintance of many years, has taught me to view as of uncommon worth and elevation. It is only a few months ago that your merits were commemorated in your native land, in a strain which those inhabitants of your adopted country, who know you well, cannot deem too lofty, nor hesitate to re-echo. In proclaiming you publicspirited, open-hearted and munificently hospitable, the distinguished assemblage in Dublin spoke as our experience would have led us to speak. A remarkable strength of natural abilities, maintained in full exertion by an active, vehement spirit, and the favour of fortune seconding a sound judgment and steadfast faith in commercial dealings, have put you in possession of an ample estate, to which you daily vindicate your title by a noble use of it in the offices of beneficence and friendship.

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