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CONSERVATIVE STANDARD

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BRITISH EMPIRE;

ERECTED

IN A TIME OF TROUBLE, FOR ALL THOSE

WHO

FEAR GOD AND HONOUR THE KING.

BY THE

REV. GEORGE BURGES,

VICAR OF HALVERGATE AND OF MOULTON,
IN NORFOLK.

LONDON:

WHITTAKER, TREACHER, AND CO.

AVE-MARIA LANE;

RIVINGTONS, ST. PAUL'S.

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

DEPOSITED BY THE LIBRRY OF THE BRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADRINIE. A. Kati

Oct 21, 1939

CHARLES SLOMAN,

PRINTER,

GREAT YARMOUTH.

PREFACE.

WHEN I published my "Conservative Address to the Freeholders of the British Empire," in January last, I pledged myself, “at a future and not very distant period," to employ my pen upon a subject connected therewith. This pledge I have here redeemed. I further expressed a hope, that I might be able to make some amends for the imperfection of the remarks then hastily thrown before the Public. How far this hope has been realized others must determine.

We are now, in all human appearance, on the eve of Revolution; of that Revolution which, in the year 1819, I endeavoured to impress, as strongly as I was able, upon the honest and intelligent mind, the not very distant probability of. A little time must now witness, either the preservation or the destruction of our Establishment, in Church and State. Before that time arrives, it behoves all to do what they can for the good of their country; for that which, in their estimation, constitutes its good. This solemn duty I, for one, have here endeavoured to perform; and with such adversaries as I have had to cope with, such severity as I have been compelled to use, and such prospects as, on

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