stead of a snuff-box of state, with a sabre of land is at length content, and Jamaica almost cool- and your Lordship's mind suffused with that calm satisfaction which is the consolatory offspring of success ---- your Lordship may perhaps condescend to spare a moment to these innocent, but, I trust, not altogether uninstructive, pages. My Lord, it has ever been considered an indubitable characteristic of insanity in men to mistake their friends for their enemies. It is on this principle alone that I can account for the perseverance with which your Lordship invariably seizes every opportunity of injuring and insulting our ancient allies, and assisting and eulogising our hereditary foe. To your Lordship, therefore, as the most eminent Gallomaniac of the day, I dedicate this in any degree tended to allay that fatal frenzy under which, unfortunately for your fellowsubjects, your Lordship has so long and so consistently laboured. April 14. 1832. Saturday morning, 8 a.m. ** ** CONTENTS. SECRET HISTORY OF THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION PRIVATE MEETING OF THE DEPUTIES AT THE HOUSE PRIVATE MEETING OF THE DEPUTIES AT M. AUDRY PRIVATE MEETING OF THE DEPUTIES AT M. BÉ- RARD'S, JULY 28., FOUR O'CLOCK PRIVATE MEETING OF THE DEPUTIES AT M. AUDRY DE PUYRAVEAU'S ON THE NIGHT OF THE 28TH BREAKFAST AT M. LAFITTE'S ON THE 29TH, AND ERRATUM. Page 69. line 6. for "216" read "209." This refers to the absolute majority: the actual majority was forty, as afterwards stated, many of the Royalists not yet having taken their seats. ENGLAND AND FRANCE. AFTER an absence of two years I find myself once more in my native country. During this interval, a series of convulsions has violently affected the political aspect of Europe. In France, an ancient dynasty has been banished; in the Netherlands, a newly-created kingdom has been decomposed; a bloody revolt in Poland; fruitless struggles in Italy; insurrections in Germany and Switzerland, and invasions of Portugal: every where alarm, agitation, and disorder. Amid all this wild commotion, our country still remains unchanged; still she is mistress of the Ocean, and she still possesses the power to become the arbiter of the Earth. As yet we retain Ireland; as yet we enjoy India; as yet our Mediterranean commerce is protected by our garrisons; as yet |