Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...therefore, of this opportunity freely to retrace all the hardships I had suffer'd for having dared to say those things, during the deliberations on ceding the Scotch brigade, which I should have thought a crime to have been silent upon; and it is thus that this speech (which you will find in the 6th pag. of the Collection, and which I have not written with the design of having it perpetuated, but only to be master of my own expressions) is connected to the Memorial above-mentioned (which you will see at the end of this Collection, &c) and to my preface on the Observations on Civil Liberty. I dare say, Sir, that you have some friend who understands Dutch, and who can give you an account of many particulars, which I cannot enter upon without falling into the terms of a translation, and which would not indeed be my business. I really write in no other language than my maternal one. The little I know of any other has been acquired by reading, and I have only read for my amusement, without having ever foreseen that I shd be called upon to appear in public. I can therefore assure you, Sir, that I am become a politician against my will. Monsieur Van Effen, the Minister of the Dutch Church in London, with whom I suppose you are acquainted, will recollect, perhaps, that he knew me at the University of Utrecht, and may be able to give you any information you can wish for. In this case I beg you would present him with my respects. I hope, Sir, that the warm expressions, which are the effects of a patriotic fire you cannot condemn, and which I have made use of in this Memorial with regard to your nation, in treating of the wrongs which I think mine has received on many occasions, will be no obstacle to an acquaintance which I have long wished to...
