death of George III.- the accession of George IV. -the new parliament-and the state of our agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and finances, constitute the principal political and historical topics of this volume, so far as Great Britain is concerned. With reference to foreign nations, the indications and commencement of the revolutions in Spain, Portugal, and Naples, are the most prominent and interesting topics. In narrating and discussing both the domestic and foreign events, we have endeavoured to free the exaggerations of party and prejudice from the real facts: this, in the case of the proceedings against the Queen, was no easy matter; how far we have succeeded, it is for our readers to determine.
It only remains to add, that such arrangements have been made, as will enable us to bring out our subsequent volumes as early in the