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ADVERTISEMENT.

In the following Work, I have studiously avoided entering into political disquisitions; arraigning neither the conduct of the ministry, nor the resolutions of the continental leaders, in this unhappy contest with the North American colonies.

My design has been to relate authenticated facts, with candid observations on the bravery displayed on either side.

It is well known that in civil commotions, the most inveterate resentment takes place, and that too much mischief hath been already done by political investigations, and misrepresentations of facts; which like so many brands thrown into a kindling fire, have raised the flame of civil dissension to such an alarming height, and been the fatal causes of so much

outrage, and hostile devastation, as to render the breach almost irreparable: but let us hope the time is not far distant, when the powerful motives of religion, language, consanguinity, commerce, and mutual interest, will once more unite us, against the perfidious Family Compact of the House of Bourbon.