Excerpt from Letters From England, Vol. 1 of 2 In thus delineating to my countrymen the domestic character and habits of the English, and the real state of England, I have endeavored to be strictly impar tial and, if self-judgment may in such a case be trus ted, it is my belief that I have succeeded. Certainly, I am not conscious of having exaggerated or extenuat cd any thing in the slightest degree - of heightening the bright or the dark parts of the picture for the sake of effect - of inventing what is false, nor of concealing what is true, so as to lie by implication. Mistakes and misrepresentations there may, and, perhaps, must be; Ihope they will neither be found numerous nor important, as I know they are not wilful; and I trust that whatever may he the faults and errors of the work, nothing will appear in it inconsistent with the love of my country, which I feel in common with every Spas miard, and that submission, which, in common with every Catholic, I owe to the Holy Church. 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.