Excerpt from The History of EnglandIt may be thought a sufficient apology for offering to the world the following brief sketch of the history of England, that, since the most recent works on the same scale have been compiled, many very important volumes have been published, throwing so much light upon the most modern period of that history, that an author that now endeavours to give an account of the times to which those works relate has great advantages over earlier writers. I allude particularly to the works of Guizot, Macaulay, Lord Mahon, and Alison, and also to the numerous and valuable publications containing the letters, despatches, &c., of the Grenvilles, Lord Rockingham, Lord Malmesbury, Fox, Lord Castlereagh, Lord Nelson, and the Duke of Wellington; to the elaborate and eloquent histories of our Indian campaigns by different authors; to Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors; and to many other volumes of letters, journals, and biographies, greatly facilitating our acquaintance with the periods to which they respectively relate, by presenting us with information in an easily accessible form, which previously could only be attained with exceeding difficulty, and then only in a scanty degree.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.