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ORMOND;

OR,

THE SECRET WITNESS.

BY

B. C. BROWN,

AUTHOR OF WIELAND, OR TRANSFORMATION.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

"Sæpe intereunt aliis meditantes necem."

PHÆDRUS

"Those who plot the destruction of others, very often fall,themselves the victims."

 

 

 

PHILADELPHIA PRINTED,

LONDON, RE-PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN,

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY,

CONDUIT-STREET, BOND-STREET.

1811

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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LADY CASTLEREAGH,

THESE VOLUMES

are respectfully inscribed,

by her Ladyship's

most obedient, and humble Servant,

HENRY COLBURN.

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INTRODUCTION.

To I.E. Rosenberg.

You are anxious to obtain some knowledge of the history of ConstantiaDudley. I am well acquainted with your motives, and allow that theyjustify your curiosity. I am willing to the utmost of my power to complywith your request, and will now dedicate what leisure I have to thecomposition of her story.

My narrative will have little of that merit which flows from unity ofdesign. You are desirous of hearing an authentic and not a fictitioustale. It will therefore be my duty to relate events in no artificial orelaborate order, and without that harmonious congruity and luminousamplification, which might justly be displayed in a tale flowing merelyfrom invention. It will be little more than a biographical sketch, inwhich the facts are distributed and am

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