CONTAINING MODERN HISTORY, FROM THE OUTBREAK OF LONDON: WHITTAKER & CO., AVE-MARIA LANE. BEING AN OUTLINE OF THE STORY AND BIOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD, CONTEMPORANEOUSLY ARRANGED. BY PHILIP ALEXANDER PRINCE, Esq. The Second Edition. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III.; TAINING MODERN HISTORY, FROM THE OUTBREAK OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO THE PRESENT DAY. LONDON: WHITTAKER & CO., AVE-MARIA LANE. v. 3 HOC ILLUD EST PRÆCIPUE IN COGNITIONE RERUM SALUBRE AC FRUGIFERUM, OMNIS TE EXEMPLI DOCUMENTA IN ILLUSTRI POSITA MONUMENTO INTUERI; INDE TIBI, TUÆQUE REIPUBLICÆ, QUOD IMITERE, CAPIAS; INDE FŒDUM INCEPTU, FŒDUM EXITU, QUOD VITES.--LIVIUS. ME QUIDEM IPSÆ ILLÆ NOSTRÆ ATHENÆ NON TAM OPERIBUS MAGNIFICIS EXQUISITISQUE ANTIQUORUM ARTIBUS DELECTANT, QUAM RECOR. DATIONE SUMMORUM VIRORUM, UBI QUISQUE HABITARE, UBI SEDERE, UBI DISPUTARE SIT SOLITUS.-CICERO. WHO WRITES A HISTORY, HIS PRINCIPAL AIM SHOULD BE TRUTH, AND TO RELATE ESPECIALLY THE EXTRAORDINARIES BOTH OF GOOD AND ILL: OF GOOD, THAT MEN, TAKEN WITH THE HONOUR DONE THEM IN STORY, MAY BE ENCOURAGED TO PERFORM THE LIKE; OF ILL, THAT WHEN MEN SEE THE INFAMY THAT THEY ARE BRANDED WITH, THEY MAY LEAP FROM ALL THAT SHOULD MAKE THEM SO STIGMATIZED.-OWEN FELITHAM. C. WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE, STRAND. POSTSCRIPT. HAVING brought down his sketch of History from the earliest period to the present day, the Author would, in conclusion, exhort the Reader to remember what he said in his Preface, that the opinions offered throughout on politics and religious faith, are to be regarded, not as resulting from a wish to dogmatise, but from a sincere desire to instil sober sentiments into the youthful mind.' The doctrines he has, imperfectly enough, laboured to uphold, are those wherein himself was nurtured; and if only entitled to the name of prejudices on that account, he must be allowed to designate them principles, now that his reason and judgment have, in maturer years, forced upon his mind a conviction of their truth. If, in the notion of some, or even of many, they should be thought a little antiquated and out of fashion, that he must lament; but he must be permitted to assert boldly, that the man who resolves to act closely up to them, and accomplishes his resolve, will, with the blessing of God, find himself both advanced in virtue, and full of the hope of the humble Christian : 'pereat mea musa, dolosum Si quando ornaret vitium, aut cecinisse recuset No opinion that the Author has ventured to offer in reprobation, has |