Excerpt from A Cursory Glimpse of the State of the Nation, on the Twenty-Second of February, 1814: Being the Eighty-First Anniversary of the Birth of Washington Tnb following Paper upon the state on the nation, was written and put to press - upon the spur of the oc casion, in the abstract, allegorical manner, of the Tat lers, Spectators. And Guardians, of the last century; which are said to have had so great an efi'ect upon pub lic sentiment. In those unsettled times, as to have contri buted, more than any thing else, to the prevalence of ih dependent principles, and the quiet establishment of the Hanoverian family upon the vacant throne of the house of Stuart. But the intended conclusion has since as sumed a more declamatory tone; which the critical read er is requested to excuse, as the apparent incongruity cannot now be corrected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.