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 present them with their best evidence — and better, I may be allowed to say, than has yet been produced on the subject. Had the task been accomplished by another, I could not have denied that he had done some good service; and it is not too much to add, that I expect and believe I have found more equity, as well as favour, from the competent part of the British public, than has been awarded by the criticism of Professor Ranke; for the main body of which I have proved myself not ungrateful.

August 24, 1840.