THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND, DURING THE REIGN OF GEORGE III. BEING A CONTINUATION ΤΟ HUME AND SMOLLETT. BY WILLIAM JONES, AUTHOR OF THE BIBLICAL CYCLOPÆDIA, HISTORY OF THE IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, 73. CHEAPSIDE; AND R. GRIFFIN & CO. GLASGOW. 1825. 591. OF ENGLAND, DURING THE REIGN OF GEORGE III. CHAPTER I. 1805. THE commencement of the year 1805 was distinguished by an overture for peace, comprised in a letter from the newly appointed emperor of France, dated 2d January, addressed personally to the king of Great Britain. Some little elation arising from his recent exaltation was obvious in his present, as it had also been in his former epistle, announcing his advancement to the consular dignity yet it contained sentiments of which the greatest monarch would have no reason to be ashamed. 66 My first wish," said he, "is for PEACE. I consider it as no disgrace to make the first step; and certainly there never was a moment more favourable to silence all the passions, and listen only to the sentiments of humanity and The world is sufficiently large for our two nations to live in it; and reason is sufficiently powerful to discover means of reconciling, when tA reason. VOL. III. |