_&c. &c._
The secret history of the Court of England, during the last two reigns,
will afford the reflecting mind abundant matter for regret and
abhorrence. It has, however, been so much the fashion for historians to
speak of kings and their ministers in all the fulsome terms of flattery,
that the inquirer frequently finds it a matter of great difficulty to
arrive at truth. But, fearless of consequences, we will speak of facts
as they _really occurred_, and only hope our readers will accompany us
in the recital with feelings, unwarped by party prejudice, and with a
determination to judge the actions of kings, lords, and commons, not as
beings of a _superior order_, but as _men_. Minds thus constituted will
have little difficulty in tracing the origin of our present evils, or of
perceiving
"How many that _command_ should be COMMANDED!"