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"Gentlemen have been too liberal in dealing out reflections against me; in any question where England is right, I will support her, where she is wrong, I will oppose her injustice; and in advoeating the just cause of America, or of any other power against the injustice of Lo, land, I say I am advocating the cause of my cN I am not the advocate of America-I am not the advocate of bi But the advocate of my country, because I am the ado justice." Whitbread's speech upon the Orders in Council, Ma 1809. Cobbett's Debates, xii. 1163.

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"I feel a sort of enthusiasm in favour of America; not only on account of the origin of the people, but also on account of the noble stand they had made for their independence." Lord Erskine, Feb. 15, 1808. Cobbett's Deb. x. 473. Debate upon the Orders in Council.

ERRATA.

Book I. line 301, for "their camps" read "their factious camps." 355, for "guile" read "guide."

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V. Argument, for "Owen" read "Omen."

VIII. line 27, for "So" read "To."

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347, for "Deed" read "Deep."
411, after "'Twas" read "then."

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PREFACE.

Presented by
Samuel P. Avery, Esq.

to the

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a rн or government, and the happiness arising
from Athenian freedom, was a cause sufficiently
powerful to raise to an exertion almost more than
human the genius of the Shakespear of Greece.
Such too is the object of the author of the
present work. Born and educated in a land of
liberty; descended from ancestors who, in the
senates of their country, have with invariable

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