"We think it would be a vast advantage to the public in general, if
ingenious opticians would turn their attention to a remedy for that long
sighted benevolence which sweeps the distant horizon for objects of com
passion, but is blind as a bat to the wretchedness and destitution abounding
at their own doors."-Blackwood.

"For a people to be free they have only to will it."

BY THE AUTHOR OF

"THE GLORY AND SHAME OF ENGLAND."

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. L.

NEW-YORK:

J. &. H. G. LANGLEY, 57 CHATHAM STREET.

MDCCCXLIII.

L632
1843

Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1842, by C. EDWARDS LESTER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

STEREOTYPED BY SMITH AND WRIGHT,
COR. FULTON AND GOLD STREETS,
NEW YORK.

CRAIGHEAD, PRINTER.

ΤΟ

HON. JOHN C. SPENCER,

THE FRIEND OF POPULAR EDUCATION,

THESE VOLUMES ARE INSCRIBED

BY HIS HUMBLE FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.