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voured to inculcate them amongst my readers in 

 general^ and more especially amongst my children, 

 to those amongst whom, whose sex warrants the 

 hope, 1 trust their country may look with confidence 

 for the performance of duties, such as those, the 

 performance of which have occupied so large a 

 part of the life of their father. This day (2 1st 

 Novemher) I have not only received a parcel of 

 PAPER, made of 'lie husks of my Corn\ but, 

 have sent it to have printed on it the title page 

 of this very book! You, my friends (readers of 

 the Register), when you hear my and your malig- 

 nant, or stupid, calumniators affecting to jeer at 

 my undertakings, may now hold the PAPER up 

 to their eyes, or cram an ear of the CORN into 

 their distended jaws, taking care, however, of your 

 own hands at the same time. To wish that Pitt, 

 Dundas, Perceval, Ellenborough, Gibbs, Castle- 

 reagh,and Canniag, or either of them, were alive 

 is far from my heart, even for the purpose of wit- 

 nessing this triumph of mine ; nor would I, though 

 for the same purpose, wish the stern-path-of-duty 

 man to be, in the least, disturbed in his retreat j 

 but, if there be any of the jolterheads of Hamp- 

 shire, whether in grey coats or black, who have 

 not yet been, by the " hard times" or by their 

 own baffled pride and humbled insolence, driven 

 to cut their own throats, as Castlereagh did his at 

 North Cray, in Kent 5 and who used, while they 



