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Excerpt from The Life and Correspondence of Charles, Lord Metcalfe, Vol. 1 of 2: Late Governor-General of India, Governor of Jamaica, and Governor-General of Canada; From Unpublished Letters and Journals, Preserved by Himself, His Family, and His Friends
The biography of a statesman to whose care the three greatest dependencies of the British Crown were successively entrusted, calls for no introduc tion to explain or to justify the circumstance of its publication. But something may be said, in this place, respecting the materials upon which the pre /sent Memoir is based, and the considerations which have in?uenced the manner of its construction.
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