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THE

HISTORY

OF

ENGLAND,

THE DEATH OF GEORGE THE SECOND.
(Designed as a Continuation of Mr. Hume's History.)

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ADVERTISEMENT.

SMY (HI)

THE purchasers of D. Hume's History of England
having been long desirous of a continuation;
the proprietor of Dr. Smollett's History (being in
possession of a copy with the author's last corrections)
has been induced to reprint that work from the
Revolution, where Hume's History ends, to the
death of George II. in the year 1760.

To make this work more acceptable, the Sections, and other divisions, are given in a manner correspondent with those observed by Hume; so that any gentleman possessed of the latter, may take up his History at the Revolution, where Hume breaks off, and find a regular connection in this complete History given by Smollett.

In the latter part only of this work has the present Editor found it necessary to make any alterations. The war before the last had its source in America, and thereby drew forth our settlements there into consequence. This, with the loss of most of those settlements since to Great-Britain, had brought with it so many changes, that what was found politicks and good sense then, is now totally deranged:

even facts themselves are become changed, and the very state of the two countries has undergone a metamorphosis which was impossible to be foreseen by the shrewdest politician. To assist the views of so eminent a writer as Smollett, as well as to gratify the expectations of the judicious reader, a few, very few, alterations have been made on those heads. To have proceeded farther would have been a kind of sacrilege, and no less a fraud upon the original author, than upon the publick.