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and murder our People.

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King's Printer London.

London, Published for Henry Colburn, Dec. 1832.

Engraved by Side Hall.

OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS

OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,

LL.D. F.R.S. &c.

MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

AT THE COURT OF FRANCE, AND FOR THE TREATY OF PEACE
AND INDEPENDENCE WITH GREAT BRITAIN, &c. &c.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF TO A LATE PERIOD,

AND CONTINUED TO THE TIME OF HIS DEATH

BY HIS GRANDSON,

WILLIAM TEMPLE FRANKLIN.

COMPRISING THE

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

And Public Negociations of Dr. Franklin;

AND HIS SELECT

POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS WORKS,

PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS.

NEW EDITION.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

CORRESPONDENCE.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR HENRY COLBURN,

BY R. BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1833.

PRINTED BY A. J. VALPY, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET.

PREFACE

TO

THE FIRST EDITION

OF THE

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

FAMILIAR letters have been usually considered as exhibiting a portraiture of the human mind; and though perhaps they are not always to be so regarded, especially in the intercourse of public men upon subjects involving particular interests and questions of national policy; yet even from these documents the most valuable materials of history are drawn, and the secret springs of great events are disclosed. Hence it is, that a deserved importance has ever been attached to the correspondence of persons who have figured with distinction in political revolutions, and the foundation of new states: