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ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899

"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 Leland I say I am adrecating the cause of my con I am not the advocate of America I am not the advocate of Fi but the advocate of my country, because I am the cave 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, Cobbett's Deb. x. 473.

1808. Debate upon the Orders in Council.

ERRATA.

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

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355, for "guile" read "guide."

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

VIII. line 27, for " So" read " Το."

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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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103 NORTHMORE (Thos.) Washington, Liberty Restored, a Poem in ten books. .8°, boards, 5s

1809 The historical notes are more readable than the pseudo-Miltonic poetry, which is poor stuff.

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