Hic patet ingeniis campus: certusque merenti Stat favor: ornatur propriis industria donis !-CLAUDIAN. "I leave to your sovereign authority the reform or repeal of all my Installation Speech of General BOLIVAR, Feb. 15th, 1819. LONDON: PRINTED FOR G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER, ΤΟ MAJOR GENERAL D'EVEREUX, &c. &c. MY DEAR GENERAL, HAD a personal visit to the wonderful regions of which the following pages treat, put it in my power to submit to the public the result of my inquiries, in an original work, the friendly regard with which you honour me, might, perhaps, dispose you to receive my humble efforts as an author with a more partial but less merited indulgence; I feel persuaded, however, that in requesting your permission to inscribe the first English edition of M. Lavaysse's performance with your name, I shall not only contribute, in a far greater degree, to the introduction among our countrymen of a just notion respecting the moral and political |