DEDICATION. 



TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE 



HENRY LORD BROUGHAM AND VAUX, 



BARON BROUGHAM, 



OF BROUGHAM, IN THE COUNTY OF WESTMORELAND, 



LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



An early and intimate acquaintance with that portion 

 of our country (Westmoreland), which will in future 

 years derive an additional degree of celebrity from the 

 name of " Brougham," by enabling me to bear testi- 

 mony to the virtues which adorn your Lordship's 

 private life, must plead, both with your Lordship and 

 the public, for my presumption in gracing this work 

 with a name so illustrious. 



It is not to your Lordship as a Statesman that I 

 dedicate the following pages ; I presume not to praise 

 or even properly to appreciate that transcendent genius, 



