Excerpt from Foreign Secretaries of the XIX. Century to 1834, Vol. 1 The careers of our prominent public men must ever possess interest for Englishmen. The adoption or abandonment of a line of policy depends so entirely on the direction of individual minds, that in estimating the value of any given measure, the character and capacity of the statesman must be considered in connection with the political condition of his times. An attempt has been here made to combine short biographical notices of the Foreign Secretaries of the nineteenth century to 1834, with allusions to the salient subjects which engaged their attention. Without any desire to write a history of England during those exciting times, the writer nevertheless hopes to send his reader for further instruction to the pages of the painstaking authors to whom he is mostly indebted for the completion of his task. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.