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CONTENTS. 



ORATIONS AND IMPASSIONED PIECES. 



Page 



Speech of Lord Chatham 

 against employing the In- 

 dians in the American War 221 

 Tell in Prison . . Anon. 224 



Wallace Smirke 226 



General Wolfe to his army 



before Quebec . . Aikin 228 

 The British Warrior Queen's 

 address to the Romans . 229 



Page 

 Alexander's address to his 



Soldiers 231 



Hamilcar's Soliloquy Croly 232 

 The Downfall of Poland 



Campbell 234 

 Brutus over the dead body of 



Lucretia . . . Payne 235 

 Duncan's Warning . Aikin 237 

 The Shipwreck . . .. . .238 



COMIC PIECES. 



The Miser's Will . . . .242 



The Wallet 245 



The Horse and the Wolf . . 246 

 Blind Man's Buff . . 248 



The Farmer's Wife and the 



Gascon 251 



The Cur and the Mastiff . .254 

 The Pasha and the Dervise . 255 



