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we have left ; and it does not become any honest Englishman 

 to survive it. For my own part, I will not. I think tameness 

 in a cause like this, is infamy. I promise that no discourage- 

 ment shall ever make me desert you, who have shown that 

 you will not desert yourselves." Sentiments worthy the atten- 

 tion of American freemen ! Mr. Glynn obtained his seat in 

 Parliament without the expenditure of a single shilling. He 

 was distinguished for the equity, energy and ability with which 

 he opposed Lord Mansfield's writ of attachment for a supposed 

 contempt in case of libel, and was the first practitioner who 

 dared to controvert the legal opinions of the Chief Justice.* 

 He was the counsel of Wilkes, when he was prosecuted by 

 the British Government for writing the 45lh number of the 

 North Briton and the Essay on Woman, and in 1769 he pleaded 

 as a member of the House of Commois in favour of Wilkes. f 

 For his conduct on the trial of Wilkes, he gained much ap- 

 plause. From various parts of the kingdom thanks were sent 

 to him for the zealous efforts he made to defend the constitu- 

 tional liberties of the subject. He was Sergeant of London, 

 the legal adviser of the first city in the world, until his death, 

 which occurred in 1779. 



GREENE. 



Boundaries, Exent. — The boundaries of this county are 

 as follows : — On the North, Clarke and Oglethorpe ; on the 

 East, Taliafero ; on the South, Hancock and Putnam ; and on 

 the West, Putnam and Morgan. Laid out from Washington 

 in 1786, and portions of it since that period added to Hancock, 

 Oglethorpe, Clarke, and Taliafero. It is 22 miles long, and 17 

 miles wide, containing 374 square miles. 



Rivers, Creeks. — The Ogeechee river, which rises in the 

 county seven miles northwest of Greenesborough. The Georgia 



* Posthumous Works of Junius, 

 f Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of George III. 



