* SEAL. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on this twenty-fourth day of May, in the thirty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Fielding Lucas, junr. of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words and figures following, to wit: "The letters of the British Spy. Fourth edition. With the "last corrections of the Author." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, "An act for the encouragement of learn. ing by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, intitled "An act supplementary to the act, intitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." PHILIP MOORE, Clerk of the District of Maryland. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION. THE publisher having become possessed of a copy of "The British Spy," which has passed through the hands of the author, eagerly embraces an opportunity of submitting a correct edition of that work to the patronage of the public. These letters were originally inserted in a daily journal; and they appeared with all the imperfections to which such a mode of publication is unavoidably liable. In the present edition, a variety of errors have been corrected; and nothing has been spared which it was supposed could add to its value. Of the literary merits of a work which has passed the ordeal of criticism with honour, not only to the author but to his country, it would |