FROM THE HISTORIES OF COXE, SCHILLER, ROBERTSON, GRATTAN, AND SISMONDI,
WITH MRS. M. L. PUTNAM’S HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTION OF HUNGARY, AND ITS
RELATIONS WITH AUSTRIA, PUBLISHED IN MAY, 1850.
EDITED
BY E. P. PEABODY.
=Second Edition.=
NEW-YORK:
G. P. PUTNAM, 10 PARK PLACE.
1852.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1852,
BY RODOLPHE GARRIQUE,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New-York.
PREFACE
OF
SECOND EDITION.
This work was first published for the benefit of the Hungarian Fund, on
the understanding (which proved a misunderstanding), of a certain
autograph acknowledgment which failed to arrive at the time expected.
Those who had the care of the publication consequently took the liberty,
without the leave or knowledge of the Editor, who was absent, to
mutilate the correspondence that formed the Preface, making it
irrelevant within itself, and insignificant altogether. The Preface is
therefore wholly left out in this edition, and an Analytic Index is
prefixed; and the stereotypes have passed into the hands of the present
publisher, who republishes it, confident that these important passages
of unquestionable history will benefit the Hungarian cause, by showing
its necessity and justice, although it is impossible to benefit the
Hungarian Fund by the proceeds of the work.