To  prevent  (if  it  be  poflible  to  prevent)  for  many  ages
that  long  fuccefiion  of  tumults  and  wars  which  the  profpect

*  Having  formerly,  on  a  different  occafion,  quoted  this  very  appofite

•  paflage,  and  marked  it  as  a  quotation,  I  feem  to  be  pretty  confident  as  to

it's   authenticity  and  exactnefs  :  but  I  regret  that  it  is  not  now  in  my

power  to  refer  to  the  particular  book  or  page  of  the  author  from  \vhom  it

js  taken.
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PREFACE.
of  fuch  long-protra£ted  fierce  confli&s  may  be  expected  to
entail  on  our  haplefs  pofterity,  prompted  by  an  anxious  foli-
citude  for  the  general  weal  of  mankind,  and  by  an  afFe&ion-
ate  regard  for  the  beft  interefts  of  the  people  both  of  America
and  Great  Britain,  I  here  fuggeft  an  expedient,  which,  if
adopted,  feems  to  bid  fair  to  enfure  a  permanency  of  peace  to
the  nations  on  both  fides  of  the  Atlantic.
