Excerpt from An Essay on the History of the English Government and Constitution: From the Reign of Henry VII. To the Present Time I have attempted in the present edition to perform the task which I had till now aban doned as hopeless - namely, to amalgamate the recent with the earlier work; and instead of giving the retrospect from 1820 to 1864 in the shape of an Introduction, I have placed it at. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.