THE

SUBSTANCE

ог

SOME LETTERS,

&c. &c.

T. Davison, Lombard-street, Whitefriars, London.

1096/0
1973

THE

SUBSTANCE

OF

SOME LETTERS

WRITTEN FROM PARIS

DURING

THE LAST REIGN

OF THE

EMPEROR NAPOLEON;

AND ADDRESSED PRINCIPALLY TO

THE RIGHT HON. LORD BYRON.

BY J. HOBHOUSE,

OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, A. M. & F. R, S.

WITH

An Appendix

OF

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS.

SECOND EDITION,

BISLU

PREFACE

TO THE FIRST EDITION.

THE following letters are composed from the same journal which furnished the writer with the materials of a very active and detailed correspondence with several of his intimate acquaintance, some of whom, being members of the legislature, were interested in receiving intelligence more correct than could be obtained through the usual channels, at a time when the total perversion of some facts, the partial selection of others, and the unfair construction put upon such as found their way to the public press, aided a deJusion, to which, in a greater degree perhaps than to the exertions of ministerial influence, must be attributed the parlia mentary majorities that enabled the government to undertake the late war against France,