10-25-40 7v.. Replace ADVERTISEMENT. A DESIRE having been expressed that the series of the "Statesmen of the Commonwealth" should be completed by a Life of CROMWELL, the present work was undertaken. A second volume will include the PROTECTORATE, with sketches of the various republican officers who co-operated with its chief. A persuasion that no life of the PROTECTOR Could be fairly or completely given without that addition, has induced the writer, while devoting the present volume to those personal characteristics which are embraced by the entire life of CROMWELL, to close its detail of events on the eve of the usurpation. It was also his wish to associate with the policy of the PROTECTORATE some idea of the men and the times of which it proved the hot-bed, in a life of the first Shaftesbury- that true apostle of the Restoration - which will be comprised in the vo lume referred to. It is needless to add that subsequent eras of English statesmanship are not likely to obtain any thing even approaching to the space which the neglected men of the Commonwealth have seemed worthily to claim, for the record of their merits or their services. 58. Lincoln's Inn Fields, Oct. 1838. ERRATUM. Page 87. line 16. from the bottom, for "cavalry troop" read "cavalry regiment." |