In presenting to the public the history of the Wars arising out of the French Revolution, the most scrupulous regard has been had to fidelity ofrepresentation. No event has been suppressed, nor has any fact been distorted, to gratify the partiality, or to advance the interests of a party, Truth has been the polar star by which the author has shaped his course; and though he makes no pretensions to freedom from political predilection, he assumes perhaps a higher merit, when he declares, that in the prosecution of this undertaking, he is not conscious of having in any instance suffered his mind to be biased, or his narrative tinctured, by any thing approaching either to national antipathies, or to party asperity.
Impressed for several years with a persuasion that a history of his own times would be an acceptable tribute both to the present age and to posterity, he waited only for the arrival of that period when the termination of the war should render the annunciation of such an undertaking expedient; and no sooner had the long-distracted nations of Europe begun.
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