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DEDICATION -wtnA -[ 

 To TIMOTHY BROWN, ESQ. 



OF PECKHAM LODGE, SURREY. 



North Hempstead, 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 in 

 duced 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 inhabited globe. Here they can 

 not sell blood: they can only collect informa 

 tion and calumniate the people of both coun 

 tries. These vermin our friend firks out (as 

 the Hampshire people call it); and they hate 

 him as rats hate a terrier. 



