No insults, no indignities, no vile stooping, will your politics admit of; and therefore, more than for any other cause, do I congratulate my country on the appearance of a book which, resting in this point our national safety upon the purity of our national character, will, I trust, lead naturally to make us, at the same time, a more powerful and a high-minded nation.
Affectionately yours, W.WORDSWORTH.[23] [22] 'Totis imperii viribus consurgitur,' says the historian, speaking of the war of the gladiators.
[23] _Memoirs_, vol.i.pp.

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* * * * * _Letter enclosing the Preceding to a Friend unnamed_.
MY DEAR SIR, I have taken the Liberty of addressing the enclosed to you, with a wish that you would be so kind as to send it by the twopenny Post.

The Letter, though to a personal Acquaintance and to some degree a friend, is upon a kind of Public occasion, and consists of Comments upon Captain Pasley's lately published Essay on the Military Policy of Great Britain; a work which if you have not seen I earnestly recommend to your careful Perusal.

I have sent my Letter unsealed in order that if you think it worth while you may read it, which would oblige me.

You may begin with those words in the 1st Page, 'Now for your Book:' which you will see are legible, being transcribed by a Friend.