Excerpt from Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe, Vol. 1 of 2: The Courts of Sweden and Denmark From 1766 to 1818

The present work was originally intended by the Author to have been a miscellany; and the sketches of the reigns of the different Sovereigns were to have been given as an Appendix, made up of selections. It was, however, discovered that one volume would not contain the matter that was indispensably necessary, which was then divided into two volumes; but such was its redundancy that the lives of the late and present Kings of Sweden, and the late and present Kings of Denmark, as well as some intended comments on the political opinions respecting Russia by Mr. Leckie and Lieut.-General Sir Robert Wilson, were necessarily omitted; they must otherwise have been reduced to the limits of an index.

In December last a pause occurred in the execution of the work, during which the Author endeavoured to procure, from various sources, those authentic and original facts which were essential to complete his work, and calculated to distinguish it from a men compilation.

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