OR, THE MAN OF INDEPENDENCE. BY THE AUTHOR OF TREMAINE. Ward Robert My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax. SHAKSPEARE. Power to do good, is the true and lawful end of aspiring: for good BACON. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. I. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. ΤΟ HENRY, EARL OF MULGRAVE, VISCOUNT NORMAN BY, BARON MULGRAVE, KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, &c. &c. &c. MY LORD, As the following work treats much of independence of mind, and of the effects which ambition produces upon the heart and character of man, I know not that I can ask a better grace for it, than to be allowed to inscribe it to one who has run through so great a career as |