OF LITERARY MEN AND STATESMEN BY WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, ESQ. THE SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. THE FIRST VOLUME. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1826. ΤΟ MAJOR-GENERAL STOPFORD, ADJUTANT-GENERAL IN THE ARMY OF COLUMBIA. SIR, THERE may be friends, I feel it, who have never seen each other. In the moment of losing, and perhaps for many years, one of my dearest relatives, I rejoice both in her marriage with you and in the time of it, which presents me the opportunity of adding to my congratulations the inscription of these dialogues. There never was a period when public spirit was so feeble in England, or political |