Excerpt from Niles' Weekly Register, Vol. 11: Containing Political, Historical, Geographical, Scientifical, Astronomical, Statistical, and Biographical, Documents, Essays, and Facts; From September 1816 to March 1817 We are accused of national vanity - I would fain know where the Americans have made a higher es timate of their importance than that which this work exhibits. Well, because we mus-thereafter be of some consequence, we shall stand in Britain 3 way; and without assigning any other reasons, he says they must consider us as aliens, enemies, natu ral and in speaking of the United States, repeatedly designates them by the epithet the enemy at a time of profound peace - the This is malevolence to a degree for which I can re collect no parallel. 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.