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gination for a revelation from heaven ; and Tile 

 the baseless fabric of a vision leaves not a wreck be- 

 hind. 



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Both the writer and the warrior have conveyed 

 a most useful lesson to mankind : it is, to regard 

 with a jealous eye, a people, who, under every 

 form of government, still aim at domineering. 

 Whether they go forth in travelling parties or in 

 armed hosts ; whether they cultivate science or 

 till the ground; whether they plant the tree of 

 liberty or unfurl the bloody flag, the Frenchman 

 never loses sight of his motto, Extollenda est Gallia. 

 He has got liberty and fraternity in his mouth, 

 but mark, he has got a rod in his hand, and Flan- 

 ders, Holland, Switzerland, a great part of Ger- 

 many, and almost all Italy, have felt it to be a rod 

 of iron. 



These Travels, and the political and com- 

 mercial views which they unfold, are peculiarly 

 interesting to Great Britain at this crisis. I 

 thought it a duty which I owed to ?ny country to 

 lay them before the Public without delay, and, to 



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