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ADVERTISEMENT.

I WISH to be distinctly understood as not impugning the motives of any man or any body of men by the opinions offered to the public in this work. I do not mean to deny that there have been and are good and pious individuals among the papists. Such men as Pascal and Fenelon are indeed burning and shining lights unto the world. But I appeal to the evidence of facts to prove that popery as a system, political and moral, uniformly produces the effects ascribed to it in the following pages,

I would also notice that notwithstanding the positive assertions of the American government that the "French decrees affecting neutral commerce" are repealed,―yet Napoleon himself declares that they are still in force. In the proceedings of the Conservative Senate, bearing date the 13th December 1810, Buonaparte declares that the Berlin and Milan Decrees shall be the code of Europe until England admits the principle that neutral flags make free goods, and that nothing but an actual blockade by sea and land shall be admitted as sufficient ground for seizing a vessel entering a port. The words of the French document respecting the non-repeal of the Berlin and Milan decrees run thus: "It was necessary to wait for a period when powerful reprisals would compel her (England) to return to justice. That day has arrived, the decrees of Berlin and Milan are the reply to the Orders in Council. The British Cabinet has, so to speak,

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