THE

HISTORY OF ENGLAND,

FROM THE

ACCESSION OF GEORGE III.,

1760,

ΤΟ

THE ACCESSION OF QUEEN VICTORIA,

1837.

BY THE REV. T. S. HUGHES, B.D.,

CANON OF PETERBOROUGH.

BEING THE COMPLETION OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE INVASION
OF JULIUS CÆSAR, TO THE PRESENT REIGN.

THIRD EDITION,

WITH THE AUTHOR's correcTIONS, IMPROVements, and eNLARGEMENT.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

A PRELIMINARY ESSAY.

IN SEVEN VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

GEORGE BELL, 186, FLEET STREET.

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PREFACE

TO

THE THIRD EDITION.

SINCE the last edition of this History, numerous publications have appeared, comprising despatches and memoirs relating to many of our most distinguished warriors and statesmen. These documents have been submitted to a diligent and accurate scrutiny, for the purpose of enlarging, correcting, and adorning the present Work: nor have the kind suggestions of friendship, or the candid opinions of criticism, or the task of careful revision, or the Author's own reflexions on its various topics, been neglected: more particularly, in the additional matter now introduced, he has exercised that strict impartiality which he previously endeavored to observe, and to make a principal feature in his Work; an impartiality prompting him equally to acknowlege merit or good intentions wherever discovered, and to reprove iniquity or censure indiscretion, with whatever character they were found allied. On some points he has ventured to speak more freely than before, because the lapse