Dedication

(BY PERMISSION)

TO THE

Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

MADAM,

IN laying my first acknowledged work at the feet of Your Majesty, I feel in the highest degree those sentiments of duty, respect, and loyalty, which Your Majesty's exalted station and benignity must ever inspire: and permit me, Madam, to express my perfect sense of the distinguished honor and

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DEDICATION.

obligation conferred by Your Majesty's most

gracious acceptance of this tribute.

I have the honor to be,

Madam,

With grateful acknowledgments and

high respect,

Your Majesty's most devoted and

dutiful, humble Servant,

C. PHILIPPART

IN the sudden transition of a

new candidate for popular favour, from the peaceful shades of domestic life to the wide and unsheltered paths of the literary republic, I have all those feelings naturally attendant on a mind strongly susceptible of worldly opinions. Some Poetical Trifles, composed during moments of solitude, I have already given to the Public, through various channels; and the encomiums bestowed upon them determined me to pursue my wanderings in those pure and delightful regions, where, secluded from the cold and the malicious, the heart

can repose in its own rectitude, and dare to breathe forth its varied feelings unrestrained and uncontaminated.

I do not tender an apology for coming under the observation of the dread tribunal I am now before; having none to offer that would be acceptable, none but such as are connected with my feelings, and form part of my existence. From the first dawn of the deliverance of Northern Europe, I felt an ardent desire to exercise my pen on a subject so dear and interesting to every heart where the flames of patriotism or loyalty are allowed to expand. I was inspired with the theme, and unconsciously acquired that intrepidity of spirit which the attempt demanded.

I was stimulated in my undertaking by