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HISTORICAL MEMOIRS

OF

HIS OWN TIME.

BY

SIR N. W. WRAXALL, BART.

Igitur ubi Animus requievit, non fuit Consilium Socordia atque Desidia bonum
Otium conterere; neque vero Agrum colendo, aut venando, servilibus Officiis in-
tentum, Ætatem agere. Sed a quo incepto Studio me Ambitio mala detinuerat,
eodem regressus, statui Res gestas carptim, ut quæque Memoria digna videban-
tur, perscribere: eo magis, quod mihi a Spe, Metu, Partibus Reipublicæ, Animus
liber erat.

SALLUST.

NEW EDITION, REVISED.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to His Majesty.

505-7

London Printed by Samuel Bentley, Dorset-Street, Fleet-Street.

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HISTORICAL MEMOIRS

OF MY OWN TIME.

PART THE FIRST.

HAVING long meditated to compose some account of the national Events which I have witnessed during a part of my life, I have postponed the publication of the work, till nearly all those persons of whom I must have occasion to speak, were removed from the scene. In fact, with the exception of a very small number of individuals, respecting whom I have been silent; scarcely any of the leading Characters now survive, who supported or opposed Lord North, the Marquis of Rockingham, the Earl of Shelburne, or the Coalition Administration. The lapse of more than thirty years, has removed every objection of that nature; and the