PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, By Law and Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell PREFA CE. THAT HAT the openings of our Prefaces have often taken their colour from the complexion of paffing events; that they have been lively or gloomy according to the prevailing tints of the political horizon, is a fact which we are neither interefted nor inclined to deny. In patriotic feelings our undertaking originated. and by them we truft it will always be guided. Here then, to be confiftent, we muft plant a laurel for the noble Wellington; and exprefs our joy at the fuccefs of efforts, which have the common caufe of public liberty in Europe for their motive. To the bravery of this country, directed by the genius of Marlborough, the furrounding nations once owed their deliverance from the ambitious projects of a Louis; nor is it now too much to hope that fimilar refults may be produced by the talents of Wellington, against the much more formidable tyranny and ufurpation of Napoleon, If the fucceffes in Spain influence, as they ought, the counfels or the movements on the Elbe, we may yet fee the liberties of Europe re-established, and France confined to reasonable limits, and terms confiftent with equity. The connection of fuch A 2 hopes |