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ADVERTISEMENT xix of any value, should be written by one superior to the influences of private or personal feelings. What Gibbon calls 'truth, naked, unblushing truth, the flrst virtue of more serious history', should alone direct the pen of the historian; and truth alone influenced the mind and guided the pen of the Author of this book. Peter CuNNTNGIi.^.M. Kensington, \8th January, 1853.