OR LIBERTY RESTORED: A POEM, IN TEN BOOKS, BY THOMAS NORTHMORE, Esq. int of beure, Æneadæ in ferrum prc libertate ruebart., Æn, wii. 648. London: PRINTED BY RICHARD TAYI.OR AND CO., SHOE LANE ; AND SOLD BY W. CLARKE, NEW BOND STREET; WESLEY AND AND W. ANDERSON, 148, st, MARTIN'S LANE. 1809.. THE ?K FLET I RY ASTOR, LENOX AND 1899 “ Gentlemen have been too liberal in dealing out reflections against me; in any question where England is right, I will support her, where she is wrong, I will oppose her injustice ; and in advoeating the just cause of Amerira, or of any other power against the injussa oi ? lalat. adding the cause of I am not the advocate di America. I am not the advoran e, any cuentry, because I am the jusir, abread's speech upon the Orders in Coun: 1809. (obbett's Lebates, xii, 1163. “ I feel a sort of enthusiasm in favour of America; not only un account of the origin of the people, but also on account of the noble stand they had made for their independence.” Lord Erskine, Feb. 15, 1808. Debate upon the Orders in Council. Cobbett's Deb. x. 473. ERRATA. Book 1. line 301, for “their camps” read “their factious camps." III. 355, for “guile” read “guide.” V. Argument, for “ Owen” read “ Omen,” 411, after “'Twas” read “then.' PREFACE. Presented by Samuel P. Avery, Carro New York Fillic Polivary to the a for hr or government, and the käppiness arising from Athenian freedom, was’a čause sufficiently powerful to raise to an exertion almost more than human the genius of the Shakespear of Greece. Sach too is the object of the author of the present work. Born and educated in a land of liberty ; descended from ancestors who, in the senates of their country, have with invariable A 2 |