That teaches us what we ought to believe in history as it is compiled according to ostensible events and results known to the generality of people.

Memoirs are much more instructive, if written honestly and not purposely fabricated, as it happens too often nowadays, particularly at Paris....

I shall not fail to read the books you so kindly recommend.

I join you a small copy of our very liberal Constitution, hitherto conscientiously executed--no easy matter.

You may communicate it to your Mother; it is the best answer to an infamous Radical or Tory-Radical paper, the _Constitutional_, which seems determined to run down the Coburg family.