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Excerpt from Universal Classics Library In May 1841, the date appended to the preface of this book, the fourth year of Queen Victoria's reign was drawing to a close, and little had as yet happened to foreshadow the wars and revolutions, the political, social, and scientific movements, which were in the next fifty years to change the whole face of the world. In that very month Peel carried a vote of want of confidence in the Melbourne administration, and in the following September he formed the great ministry which was to expire in giving birth to Free Trade. How different was the map of Europe from that to which we have now for some years been accustomed, may be gathered in part from references contained in the book itself. The writer mentions (p. 57) a king in France, Louis Philippe, and (p. 64) a Neapolitan Monarchy not yet broken up by Garibaldi, he speaks (p. 212) of Lombardy as an Austrian province, and he quotes (p. 159) the Ionian Islands as being nominally a British dependency and really under the protection of the British Crown. 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.