at Barner in Surrey

on the 18 of June 1935.

WORK S;

CONTAINING VARIOUS

WRITINGS AND SELECTIONS,

EXHIBITING A FAITHFUL PICTURE

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;

OF THEIR

GOVERNMENTS, LAWS, POLITICS, AND RESOURCES;

OF THE CHARACTERS OF THEIR

PRESIDENTS, GOVERNORS, LEGISLATORS, MAGIS
TRATES, AND MILITARY MEN;

AND OF THE

CUSTOMS, MANNERS, MORALS, RELIGION, virtues
AND VICES

OF THE PEOPLE:

COMPRISING ALSO

A COMPLETE SERIES OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
AND REMARKS,

FROM THE END OF THE WAR, IN 1783,

TO THE

ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT, IN MARCH, 1801.

BY WILLIAM COBBETT.

IN TWELVE VOLUMES.

(A Volume to be added annually.)

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR COBBETT AND MORGAN, AT THE CROWN

AND MITRE, PALL MALL.

MAY, 1801.

Printed by S. GOSNELL,

Little Queen Street, Holborn.

302 .065

DEDICATION.

ΤΟ

JOHN REEVES, ESQ.

FOUNDER OF THE LOYAL ASSOCIATION AGAINST
REPUBLICANS AND LEVELLERS.

DEAR SIR,

Pall Mall, May 29, 1801.

THIS, the anniversary of that happy day, which drove rebellion, republicanism, and tyranny from England; which reftored the King to the throne, the Prelates to the church, the Nobles to their titles, the People to their liberties, and which brought the Regicides to the gibbet; this aufpicious day I have chofen for dedicating to you my humble labours in that caufe, of which you have long been the most distinguished and most successful champion. I have selected you, on this occafion, for many reasons, but chiefly, because you are the known enemy of republicans and levellers, because you