Excerpt from Considerations Upon the State of Public Affairs, Vol. 3: In the Year MDCCXCVIII; The Domestic State and General Policy of Great Britain Previous therefore to every retrofpetft, and preliminary to every reflexion, [call the pub lic attention I will not fay, but the public piety and gratitude, to that Providence which has often upheld and defended thefe kingdoms under many perils and from many enemies, and from the worf'c of them, our own vices, pafiions, and corruptions but never more mercifully or more vifibly than in the deliverance we have experienced from the great and imminent dangers to which we were daily expofed during the negociations for A peace AT lille. 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.