FOR THE LAST SEVEN YEARS; OR, The Bourbons. BY W. H. IRELAND. MEMBER OF THE ATHANEUM OF SCIENCES AND ARTS AT PARIS. "La Cocarde Tri-Colore fera le tour du monde." MIRABEAU. LONDON: PRINTED FOR G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER AVE-MARIA LANE. HARVARD Coolidge Fund LONDON: SHACKELL AND ARROWSMITH, JOHNSON'S-COURT, FLEET STREET ΤΟ THE CORTES OF SPAIN. GENTLEMEN, THE solemn and sacred duty you have undertaken to perform, not only as regards the emancipation of your own country, but in order to forward the interests of surrounding nations, has prompted me to tender you the homage of the following pages, which possess no intrinsic merit save what appertains to a detail of the popular sentiment predominating throughout France. The inherent spirit of liberty, however silenced, is only smothered for the moment, and requires but the Promethean touch to re-animate its glow, and instil an ardour equal to that which characterized the dawning of her Revolution; yet wholly divested of those flagitious proceedings engendered by the most infamous Machiavelian policy from without her territory, that ever yet sullied the records of a people struggling to be free. |