DEDICATION 



To 

 TIMOTHY BROWN, Esq., 



OF PECKHAM LODGE, SURREY. 



North Hempsteady Long Island, 



10 Dec. 1818. 

 MY DEAR SIR, 



THE little volume here presented to the public, consists, as 

 you will perceive, for the greater and most valuable part, of 

 travelling notes, made by our friend HULME, whom I had the 

 honour to introduce to you in 1816, and with whom you were so 

 much pleased. 



His activity, which nothing can benumb, his zeal against the 

 twin monster, tyranny and priestcraft, which nothing can cool, 

 and his desire to assist in providing a place of retreat for the 

 oppressed, which nothing but success in the accomplishment can 

 satisfy ; these have induced him to employ almost the whole of 

 his time here in various ways all tending to the same point. 



The Boroughmongers have agents and spies all over the in 

 habited globe. Here they cannot sell blood : they can only collect 

 information and calumniate the people of both countries. These 

 vermin our friend firks out (as the Hampshire people call it) ; 

 and they hate him as rats hate a terrier. 



Amongst his other labours, he has performed a very laborious 

 journey to the Western Countries, and has been as far as the Colony 

 of our friend BIRKBECK. This journey has produced a JOURNAL ; 

 and this Journal, along with the rest of the volume, I dedicate to 

 you in testimony of my constant remembrance of the many, many 

 happy hours I have spent with you, and of the numerous acts of 

 kindness, which I have received at your hands. You were one of 

 those, who sought acquaintance with me, when I was shut up in a 

 felon s jail for two years for having expressed my indignation at 

 seeing Englishmen flogged, in the heart of England, under a guard 



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