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PREFACE.
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and a truly good man. We shall not offer so poor a compliment to the reader—as to mention any personage of the present age of English growth, who deserves the character given to the Hero of the future; but we shall very much pity his understanding, if he meets with any difficulty in finding him out.
In the course of the following sheets, the reader's own reflection must frequently assist him in the elucidation of particular circumstances,—for in performances of this nature, it is totally impossible to be always as clear as a person could wish,———there are such things as an Attorney, and Sollicitor General, a Court of King's Bench, and pains and penalties,———it
