ACCOUNT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE: EXHIBITING ITS EXTENT, PHYSICAL CAPACITIES, POPULATION, INDUSTRY, Est enim cognitio reipublicæ et privato homini et publico utilissima et maxime necessaria; atque Mone, Hist. Statistica. LONDON: . LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. 615 6/113 TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART., M.P. &c. &c. SIR, A WORK descriptive of the industry and institutions of the United Kingdom, could be dedicated to no one with so much propriety as to yourself. You have occupied for a lengthened period a prominent position in the councils of the country; and your talents and disinterestedness have rendered your administration one of the most successful and memorable in our annals. Influenced solely by public considerations, you brought forward measures which, though opposed by a great and powerful party, you justly believed were well fitted to promote the real and lasting interests of all classes of Her Majesty's subjects; and in their support, you made, without hesitation, incomparably greater sacrifices than ever were made by any other minister; and overcame difficulties insurmountable by any one else. This devotion to NATIONAL INTERESTS, has ensured you the highest place in the public estimation; and that you may long live to enjoy this proud pre-eminence is the earnest wish of, Sir, Your faithful and obliged Servant, J. R. McCULLOCH. London, December, 1946. |