OR, THE

MAN OF INDEPENDENCE.

EY

THE AUTHOR OF TREMAINE.

My free drift
Halts not particularly, but moves itself
In a wide sea of wax.

SHAKSPEARE

Power to do gnod, is the true and lawful end of aspiring : for good
thoughts (though God accept them), yet, towards men, are little better
than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be with:
ont power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.

BACON.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,