Excerpt from The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith: Three Volumes, Complete in One Guns were set all over the country - Prisoners tried for their Lives could have no Counsel - Lord Eldon and the Court of Chancery pressed heavily upon mankind - Libel was punished by the most cruel and vindictive im prisonments - the principles of Political Economy were little understood the Law of Debt and of Conspiracy were upon the worst possible footing the enormous wickedness of the Slave Trade was tolerated - a thousand evils were in existence, which the talents of good and able men have since lessened or removed; ana these effects have been not a little assisted by the honest boldness of the Edinburgh Review. 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.