OF THE Private and Public Life WILLIAM PENN. BY THOMAS CLARKSON, M. A. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. London: PRINTED BY RICHARD TAYLOR AND CO., SHOE-LANE, FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1813. H. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY RICHARD, LORD HOLLAND, BARON OF HOLLAND IN LINCOLNSHIRE, AND OF FOXLEY IN WILTS, THESE MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM PENN, THE FIRST STATESMAN, WHO, BANISHING POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY, FOUNDED HIS PUBLIC CONDUCT BY WHICH HE FURNISHED A MODEL OF GOVERNMENT, CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TO HIS OWN PEOPLE A SUPERIOR degree of MORALITY AND HAPPINESS, AND ENSURING TO FOREIGNERS CONNECTED WITH THE SAME PEACE, SECURITY, MORAL IMPROVEMENT, AND THE RIGHTS OF MEN, ARE INSCRIBED ENTIRELY OUT OF RESPECT TO HIS LORDSHIP'S OWN POLITICAL CONDUCT, ONCE AS IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE KINGDOM, AND NOW AS A PEER OF PARLIAMENT, WHEREBY HE HAS SHOWN HIMSELF A VINDICATOR OF THE RIGHTS OF INJURED AFRICA, IN ALL WHICH THE GREAT WILLIAM PENN BY HIS FRIEND THOMAS CLARKSON. |