Excerpt from The Lost Prince: Facts Tending to Prove the Identity of Louis the Seventeenth, of France, and the Rev. Eleazar Williams, Missionary Among the Indians of North America The public, I trust, is sensible by this time, that in this investi gation there has been no attempt to impose on its credulity. If there be aught I hate, next to injustice, and against which I would stoutly contend, it is what Carlyle calls Shams. The chief interest in this discussion is its intense reality. With Mr. Wil liams, as a clergyman, it has become a vital question of veracity; and I would not have published one word on the subject, had I not been morally convinced of his truthfulness, since I would not, for the sake of any temporary, but worthless literary eclat, trifle with the fortunes of a suffering brother in the ministry. He is no claimant for royal name, any more than he is an aspirant for political elevation. He stands in the position of one who asserts facts, the confirmation of which is derived, without his aid, from the most widely different sources. Even with respect to his journals and the events of his life, the use I have made of them in the argument, is as novel to him as it is to others. And for myself, I seek only to establish a historical fact, and let that fact take care of itself. 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.