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 additions. As a guarantee, however, for accuracy in thee important repects, I beg to aure the reader that, in every doubtful intance, I have never relied excluively upon my own judgment, but invariably have ought that of ome literary friend better qualified than myelf to olve the difficulty. I feel confident, therefore, that no error of the kind referred to will be detected in the following pages.

My original intention was to include in the preent collection the mot celebrated political ballads referring to the reigns of the lat two Georges; but finding my precribed limits would not admit of anything like jutice being done to them, I have been reluctantly compelled to abandon that part of my cheme. Should, however, the preent eries happily meet with the approbation of the public, I hall furnih with pleaure the remaining intalment, in the hape of an additional volume.

London, October, 1860.