Excerpt from Mr. Cobbett's Taking Leave of His Countrymen Thus Was the balan'ce my Conntryinen, be yoit that, though Inshall', 111 live, he at a distance from ydu; thdhgh the ocean will roll betweeh' us, not: all the bar riers that nature aa'si well 'as1 art 'can raise, shall be sutiicient'f to prevent you from'reading son1epart, ' at least', of what I'write'yand, notivitlt's'tanding all the wrongsfof which I justly com 1 plain hotwithst'anding all the indig nation that If'feel; 'not'with'standi1ig all the provocations that I ba've re' ccived, or that I may receive, nevei shall there drop from my pen any thing, which, a'ccordingfto the Jaw of the 11111181 might nothsafely' write and publish in England: Those, who have felt themselves'supported 'by power; have practised towards 3me foul play without measure but, thongh'l shall haiie the means 'of retaliation in my hands, never'will I' follow? Their base example. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.