OF THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIFE OF WILLIAM PENN; WHO SETTLED THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND FOUNDED THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA. BY THOMAS CLARKSON, M. A. TWO VOLUMES IN ONES VOL. I. DOVER, N. H. SAMUEL C. STEVENS, WASHINGTON-STREET. 1827. MON To the right honourable HENRY RICHARD, LORD HOLLAND, Baron of Holland in Lincolnshire, of Foxley in Wilts, MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM PENN, the first Statesman, who, banishing political expediency, founded his public conduct solely on the principles of justice, a superior degree of morality and happiness, and ensuring to foreigners connected with the same, peace, security, moral improvement, and the rights of men, are inscribed entirely out of respect to his lordship's own political conduct, once as in the administration of the kingdom, |