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We have already said, and the reader will have frequent occasion to
recollect it, that we by no means generally intend an analysis of the
several works that may come before us. In the present instance, we do
not apprehend that we shall lay ourselves open to much blame, by passing
over in silence the discoveries of Vespusius, and the conquests of
Baretto; and laying before our readers some extracts from the history of
the late war. It is impossible not to remark that the subject is treated
with much caution, and that, though the sentiments of a royalist be
every where conspicuous, they are those of a royalist, moderated by
misfortune and defeat.
The following is Dr. Robertson's account of the declaration of
independence.
"It is by this time sufficiently visible, that the men, who took
upon themselves to be most active in directing the American
counsels, were men of deep design and extensive ambition, who by
no means confined their views to the redress of those grievances
of which they complained, and which served them for instruments
in the pursuit of objects less popular and specious. By degrees
they sought to undermine the allegiance, and dissolve the ties,
which connected the colonies with the parent country of Britain.
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