Æneadæ in ferrum pro libertate rúetart

FUELT L'ORARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

. 1899.

“ Gentlemen have been too liberal in dealing out reflections against me ; in any question where England is right, I will support her, where she is wrong, I will oppose her injustice ; and in advoeating ile jusi cause of America, or of any other power against the injustic of t? laut, I sty nin ilireauiing the cause of my ean? y. I am not the advocate of America-l am not the ad vocant e , Out in educat" vt my country, because I am the urine of justice. Whitbead's speech upon the Orders in Councii, n. 6, 1809. Cobbetts Debates, xii, 1163.

account of the origin of the people, but also on account of the noble stand they had made for their independence.” Lord Erskine, Feb. 15,

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ERRÄTA. Book 1. line 301, for “their camps” read “their factious camps."

III. ---- 355, for “guile” read “guide.”

V. Argument, for “ Owen” read “ Omen."
VIII. line 27, for « So” read “ To.”

X. ---- 347, for “ Deed” read “ Deep."
-------- 411, after “'Twas” read “then.”

PREFACE.

Presented by Samuel P. Avery, Esq New Billie Pibrary

to the

a lorhi or government, and the happiness arising from Athenian freedom, was’a" čause sufficiently powerful to raise to an exertion almost more than human the genius of the Shakespear of Greece. Sach too is the object of the author of the present work. Born and educated in a land of liberty; descended from ancestors who, in the senates of their country, have with invariable