O

THE

HISTORY

OF

ENGLAND,

FROM

THE REVOLUTION

то

THE DEATH OF GEORGE THE SECOND,

(Defigned as a Continuation of Mr. Hume's History.)

IN FIVE VOLUMES.

Tobias (George)

BY T. SMOLLETT, M. D.

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VOL, I.

A NEW EDITION.

With the Author's laft CORRECTIONS and IMPROVEMENTS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND; AND R. BALDWIN,
NO. 47, IN PATER-NOSTER-ROW.

M DCCC.

[H. Baldwin and Son, Printers, New Bridge-street.]

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15 1890

Batchelor Sequick

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE purchafers of D. Hume's Hiftory of England having been long defirous of a Continuation; the proprietor of Dr. Smollett's History (being in poffeffion of a copy with the author's laft 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 divifions, are given in a manner correfpondent with thofe obferved by Hume; fo that any gentleman, poffeffed 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 pre fent Editor found it neceffary to make any alterations. The war before the laft had its fource in America, and thereby drew forth our fettlements there into consequence. This, with the lofs of most of those settlements fince to Great-Britain, had brought with it fo many changes, that what

was found politicks and good fenfe then, is now
totally deranged; even facts themselves are become
changed, and the very state of the two countries
has undergone a metamorphofis which was impof
fible to be foreseen by the fhrewdeft politician.
To affift the views of fo eminent a writer as Smol-
lett, as well as to gratify the expectations of the
judicious reader, a few, very few, alterations have
been made on thofe heads. To have proceeded
farther would have been a kind of facrilege, and
no less a fraud upon the original author, than
upon the publick.

Smollet as a

He regards.
writer, who appears newn

newn to have of amined

the journals, and but superficially to hav perused the parliamentary debates - Belsham he thinks is

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copyist of Imdbet as to facts; although differing from him in speculation. Mr Cafe has not relied on

authorities

either as