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vai by the bye, my reader’s own penetration will soon discover) I must begin with observing, that the most necessary in­ gredient towards my success, is public indulgence, which I may, perhaps, hope for, as not always the most deserving are the most caressed. A few partial friends, enamoured with Shakespeare’s portrait of -H a m l e t , sug­ gested to me the idea of presenting the Public with some information concern­ ing our country. It seems to have been the peculiar province of German travellers to aug­ ment their bulky volumes of incompre­ hensible falshood, with visionary details on the state of Denmark. Naturally phlegmatic, their splenetic minds, and