Excerpt from The Conspirators: Or the Romance of Military Life

My dear Sir,

Several years ago, a passage in your History of the Spanish War excited my curiosity about the Philadelphian Conspiracy in Napoleon's Armies, and directed me to the French work to which I am indebted, in the Supplement to the two following stories, for most of the details relating to it, and for much of the account of the remarkable person whose mind was the mainspring of its curious machinery.

While making this acknowledgment, I gladly avail myself of the opportunity of inscribing these Philadelphian Narratives to you, and of thus showing, even by ever so slight a token, that I am one of those who rejoice to honour learning, genius, and virtue.

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