SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED, LONDON: HOLDSWORTH AND BALL, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION. CIRCUMSTANCES not necessary to be related brought upon me the request to revise for republication this volume, the production of an extraordinary and superior mind, on subjects of the highest importance. These Letters may, indeed, be said to belong, by a kind of parental claim, to the Mother Country of the North American States. They originated in some very solemn and impressive conversations of the Author, during his visit to the land of his ancestors: but injunctions, which I must hold inviolable, forbid any more explicit disclosures on this topic. It was also the unquestionable intention of the Author, to have had the work |