SOLDIER OF FORTUNE: AN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL ROMANCE. BY CAPT. ASHE, AUTHOR OF THE SPIRIT OF THE BOOK, LIBERAL CRITIC, "Virtuti nihil obstat et armis." IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: Printed by B. M'Millan, Bow Street, Covent Garden. SOLD BY SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES, PATERNOSTER- 1816. 249. 5, 297. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH, &c. &c. &c. MY LORD, To guard the sacred cause of Royalty from the assaults of violence, or the incursions of chicane, is a duty of such magnitude, as both calls for and warrants the warmest exertions, and the most spirited efforts of every friend, not only of the Sovereign, but of the Constitution of the country. However necessary that duty is, and its necessity no words can exaggerate, it is no less honorable to the individual than bene a |