This page has been validated.
PREFACE.
xv
rather surprising, that every nation in Europe should have academies for promoting it but our own.
Not to take up the reader's time, however with reflections, which in the perusal of the following sheets must naturally occur to himself; it will be only necessary to observe further, that the author, by making his Hero conquer all France, and establishing him in possession of that kingdom, seems to hint, that our late treaty of peace, was not altogether so advantageous as ministerial writers would have us think it; and that the moderation which we showed upon that occasion, was rather a little ill-timed. Upon the whole, it is presumed, that the history ofGeorge
