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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE LOST PRINCE. CHAPTER I. PRINCIPLES. My object, in the following pages, is simply to group together for historic reference, the circumstances which tend to prove that in the person of a venerable clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, there is still living, in America, the representative of Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE LOST PRINCE. CHAPTER I. PRINCIPLES. My object, in the following pages, is simply to group together for historic reference, the circumstances which tend to prove that in the person of a venerable clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, there is still living, in America, the representative of the ancient glories of the French Monarchy. The interest which this subject has excited, and the deep conviction entertained by those who have had the best opportunity of judging of the truth of many of the facts upon which this opinion is based, together with the inherent importance of the question, in a historic point of view, must form my apology for again appearing before the public in connexion with it. I have hesitated as to the precise form into which I should throw this little work. At first, my design did not extend beyond a reprint, with notes, of the original articles in which a portion of the evidence is contained, together with an Appendix furnishing the testimony which has since come to light. I was inclined to pursue this course because the easiest for a person whose T t THE LOST PRISCE. lime is already fully occupied with professional duties, and also because anxious to exhibit in this way the gradual manner in which facts have been developed, as the investigation has proceeded. But, apart from the dislike of mere verbal repetition, there are many points of importance to the general understanding of the subject, and a correct estimate of the evidence, which I have either not alluded to, or but slightly touched upon, and which it is necessary to include, when tin-owing the matter into a permanent form. I have, therefore, determined to rewrite the whole, adopting the simplest and most natural plan, viz. to give a narrative of the main circumstance. Books, Biography & Autobiography~~General, Lost-Prince~~John-H-1815-1854-Hanson, 999999999, The Lost Prince, John Halloway Hanson, 1436617219, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<