Excerpt from History of Europe, Vol. 6: From the Fall of Napoleon in 1815 to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in 1852 It is a remarkable fact, that since the introduction of municipal reform two-thirds of the burghs of Scotland have become bankrupt, or preserved their solvency only by severe local taxation. This has arisen, not from culpable squandering or making away with the corporate property, but from rash attempts at legislation, and crude and unprofitable attempts at social improvement or philanthropic Objects. 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.