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TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS 



THE DUKE OF YORK. 



SIR, 



In times like these, when the wicked 



; intentions and wild chimeras of misguided or de- 

 signing men have so widely disseminated prin- 

 ciples of a fallacious equality as to shake all 

 Europe to its foundation, it becomes the duty of 

 every reasonable person, especially the inhabitant 

 of this truly free nation, to manifest a love of 



X order, by proper expressions of regard for high 

 station and illustrious ancestry. Yet it zvas 



iJ not this consideration alone which made me 

 solicitous to obtain that leave for the present 



^dedication which your Royal Highness, with 

 such ready condescension, has been pleased to 

 grant me. 



*j In the following pages, I have endeavored 



a to spare my country the loss of many a valu- 



#} able, though humble, member, zvhom misrepre- 



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