[This is a faithful reprint of a work which produced an extraordi- SECRET HISTORY OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND, FROM THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE THE THIRD TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE THE FOURTH; INCLUDING, AMONG OTHER IMPORTANT MATTERS, FULL PARTICULARS OF THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF THE BY THE Olive (Wilmot) Series RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY ANNE HAMILTON, SISTER OF HIS GRACE THE PRESENT DUKE OF HAMILTON LONDON PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM HENRY STEVENSON, LONDON: REYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER OFFICE, 313, STRAND. NIN [18763] THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHER TO THE READER. THE Source from whence this work proceeds will be a sufficient guarantee for the facts it contains. A high sense of duty and honour has prompted these details, which have for many years been on the eve of publication. It will be worthy of the perusal of the great, because it will serve as a mirror, and they who do not see themselves or their actions reflected, will not take offence at the unvarnished picture. It may afford real benefit to the statesman and politician, by the ample testimony it gives, that, when justice is perverted, the most lamentable consequences ensue; and, to that class of society whose station is more humble, it may unfold the designing characters by whom they have so frequently been deceived. They only are competent to detail the scenes and intrigues of a Court who have been most intimately acquainted with it; and it must at all times be acknowledged that it is a climate not very conducive to the growth of virtue, not very frequently the abode of truth; yet, although its atmosphere is so tainted, its giddy crowd is thought enviably happy. The fallacy of such opinions is here set forth to public view by one who has spent much of her time in the interior of a Court, and whose immediate knowledge of the then passing events give ability to narrate them faithfully. Many, very many, facts are here omitted, which hereafter shall appear; and there is little doubt but that some general good may result from an unprejudiced and calm perusal of the subjects subjoined. |