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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE first part of this Pamphlet was written, and partly sent to press, soon after the ruin of the Prussian army was certainly known in England, and when we supposed ourselves to be again left alone in the war; a conjuncture, at which the feelings of the Public, as to the perils of our situation, were probably much more in unison than now, with those of the Author. At present, perhaps, a proposition which he has assumed, viz. that the danger of an invasion, though very indistinctly and inadequately conceived, is universally admitted to exist, may be far from the truth. But he deems it, on this account, only the more necessary to raise his feeble voice against the indifference and supineness which prevail in regard to our public defence; since the apprehension of immediate danger no longer tends to correct these faults, and they may, by a false sense of security, be fatally confirmed.

May the next news from the seat of continental war, be of a kind to diminish further the apparent importance of his labours? But, in his estimate, our danger from the power of France was never more serious and imminent than at the present moment.

January 21, 1807.

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