M'Cormick, J: State-Papers and Letters Addressed to William

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M'Cormick, J: State-Papers and Letters Addressed to William

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Excerpt from State-Papers and Letters Addressed to William Carstares, Confidential Secretary to K. William During the Whole of His Reign, Afterwards Principal of the University of Ediburgh: Relating to Public Affairs in Great-Britain, but More Particularly in Scotland, During the Reigns of K. William and Q. Anne, to Which Is Prefixed the Life of Mr. Carstares

But, while the antient billory of Great Britain, and that of the two great periods preceeding the ref'toration, received fuch illufiration from collec'tions of {late-papers, our hiftory, fubfequent to that aera, cannot pretend to the fame advantages. Some light has indeed been thrown upon the reign of Charles II. By the letters of Temple, Arlington, and of Danby but it is only of late that any papers of moment relating to the reigns of Jamesll. And William III. Have been publifh ed; and none of any confequence have yet appeared concerning the reign, of (gear Anne. The public curiofity, fatiated, in a great meafure, with refpeét to the two former periods which have been mentioned, is ftill eager and unabated with regard to the latter. This is manifeft from the extraordi nary attention paid to the interefting collection publifhed by Sir john Dalrymple.

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