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HIS GRACE

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON,

FIELD MARSHAL,

FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY,

&c. &c, &c. &c.

MY LORD DUKE,.

WHEN my Readers consider that the immortal work which I have here translated, interpreted, and illustrated, has been, in all ages, the study and admiration of the greatest captains, and most eminent statesmen the world has ever produced, they cannot fail to see the perfect propriety with which it is inscribed to Your Grace. I may be permitted, My Lord, to say, that I was chiefly induced to render this homage of profound respect from my private sense of those weighty obligations under which Your Grace laid my countrymen at large, and the lovers of sober freedom and constitutional government every where,