A Narrative, FOUNDED ON RECENT AND INTERESTING FACTS. "Le vrai n'est pas toujours vraisemblable." "These familiar histories may, perhaps, be made of greater Second Edition. VOLUME I. London: PRINTED FOR FRANCIS WESTLEY, 10, STATIONER'S COURT, and ΤΟ YOUTH, AS THE BLOOM OF THIS AGE, AND THE PROMISE OF THE FUTURE, THESE VOLUMES ARE ESPECIALLY Dedicated; BY ONE WHO SYMPATHIZES IN THEIR JOYS, HAS CONTENDED WITH THEIR DANGERS, AND AFFECTIONATELY DESIRES THEIR WELFARE. PREFACE. "LET no one say-I will write a duodecimo." When the rude sketch of the following work lay beneath the eye, nothing more was proposed than to prepare a few short chapters, for a monthly miscellany. Yet, in embodying it, with a uniform endeavour to be concise, it has spread itself into two volumes. That it might, indeed, have been kept within smaller limits, is readily acknowledged; but this restriction, it is conceived, would, in |