France, social, literary, political

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FRANCE, SOCIAL, LITERARY, POLITICAL. Bt HENRY LYTTON BULWER, ESQ. M.P. Nature and truth are the same every where, and reason shows them every where alike. But the accidents and oilier causes, which give rise and growth to opinions both in specu lation and practice, are of infinile variety .—Bolingbroke on the Iriir Vsn cts Retirement and Study. Revere conditores Deos, numina Deormn. Reverere cloriain velerem, et hanc ipunm senectutem quæ in homine venerabilis, in urhibus sacra est. Sit apud te honor antiquitati. sit ingentibus sacti, sit fabulis quoque, uihil ex cujusqunm dignilote, nihil ex libertnle, nihil etiam ex jaclatione decerpseris. — P/inius Maximo Suo S. PARIS, BAUPRY'S EUROPEAN LIBRARY. Itl'B DD COQ, NEAR THB LOUVRE. BERLIN, ASHER'S BRITISH AND FOREIGN LIBRARY, LINDEN , N - 20 . 1834.

DEDICATION TO * B. G. KING, ESQ. Mis dear King, We have so few opportunities afforded us of testifying esteem, that I feel inexpressible gratification in thus being able to present you with this very unworthy token of the sentiments with which a long acquaintance has inspired me. Nor is this all : the present dedication is not only an ordinary tribute paid to friendship— it is a tribute paid to a friend whom 1 esteem as much for his public principle as his private worth. And, indeed, it is no small consolation, in thus entering upon a new career, to feel that whatever may be my fate as an author— there must still remain to me the pleasure and the honour with which I shall ever look back to the temporary con nexion of my name with yours.-This is not said, my dear King, in the formal and customary spirit of dedicatory ad dresses, but with the deepest and sincerest sentiments of regard and affection. Yours most truly, HENRY LYTTON BULWER. Hill Street, September 3, 1834.