Excerpt from Letters From Europe These letters, now collected into one volume, in response to what scemato be a very general desire on the part of my friends and the public, were written as well to occupy the hours of anxiety com mon to all strangers in foreign lands, as to present to the readers of the philadelphia press and washington chronicle my honest impressions of men and things abroad. Some errors may have occurred in the haste of unassisted composition, but every line was inspired by a sincere desire to pro mote the cause of human progress, and to prove to my countrymen the incalculable advantages of their own government over that of any other nation upon earth. 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.