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happy people; and to have been, though in the 

 smallest degree, instrumental in the creating of 

 this source, will always be a subject of great 

 satisfaction, to, 



Dear Sir, 



Your most obedient, 



And most humble servant, 

 WM. COBBETT. 



262. P. S. I shall to-morrow send the Second 

 Part of my Year's Residence to the press. 1 

 dare say it will be ready in three weeks. 



263. I conclude this chapter by observing, 

 that a boroughmonger hireling, who was actu 

 ally fed with pap, purchased by money paid to 

 his father by the minister PITT, for writing and 

 publishing lies against the Prince of Wales and 

 the Duke of York, the acknowledgment of the 

 facts relating to which transaction, I saw in the 

 father's own hand-writing; this hireling, when 



he heard of my arrival on Long Island, called 

 it my LEMNOS, which allusion will, I hope, 

 prove not to have been wholly inapt; for, 

 though my life is precisely the reverse of that of 

 the unhappy PHILOCTETES, and though I do 

 not hold the arrows of HERCULES, 1 do possess 

 arrows ; 1 make them felt too at a great dis 

 tance, and, J am not certain, that my arrows 



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