{"product_id":"2940148155546","title":"An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 (Illustrated)","description":"MY LORD,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe honour that your Lordship has done me, in permitting this volume to go forth into the world under the sanction of your name, demands my warmest acknowledgments. I can only wish that the Work had been more worthy of its patron.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe originator of the plan of colonization for New South Wales was too conspicuous a character to be overlooked by the narrator of its rise and progress. The benevolent mind of your Lordship led you to conceive this method of redeeming many lives that might be forfeit to the offended laws; but which, being preserved, under salutary regulations, might afterward become useful to society: and to your patriotism the plan presented a prospect of commercial and political advantage. The following pages will, it is hoped, serve to evince, with how much wisdom the measure was suggested and conducted; with what beneficial effects its progress has been attended; and what future benefits the parent country may with confidence anticipate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat your Lordship may long live to enjoy those grateful reflections which a sense of having advanced the public welfare must be presumed to excite; and that our most gracious sovereign, the father of his people, may long, very long reign over these kingdoms, and continue to be served by statesmen of tried talents and integrity, is the earnest prayer of,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMY LORD,\u003cbr\u003eYour Lordship's much obliged,\u003cbr\u003eand most devoted servant,\u003cbr\u003eDAVID COLLINS\u003cbr\u003ePoland Street,\u003cbr\u003eMay 25, 1798\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067763507440,"sku":"2940148155546","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148155546_p0.jpg?v=1763698088","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148155546","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}