EUROPE:

OR A

GENERAL SURVEY

OF THE

PRESENT SITUATION OF THE PRINCIPAL POWERS;

WITH CONJECTURES

ON THEIR

FUTURE PROSPECTS:

BY

A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES.

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BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY CUMMINGS AND HILLIARD, NO. 1 CORNHILL,

AND OLIVER EVERETT, NO. 6 COURT STREFT

Hilliard & Metcalf, printers.

1822.

H 1768.22.2

HARVARD

COLLEGE
LIBRARY

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Europe: or a general survey of the present situation of the principal powers; with conjectures on their future prospects. By a Citizen of the United States."

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J. W. DAVIS,

Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

CONTENTS.

Prefatory Letter

CHAP. I.—Introductory remarks on the general

causes of the present political agitations 5

CHAP. VI.-Russia, Sweden, Denmark, and the

PREFATORY LETTER.

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I FEEL much pleasure, my dear brother, in complying with your request, that I would furnish you with a general sketch of the present political situation of Europe. You are aware of the uncertainty of all speculations of this sort upon contemporary events. At the present moment they are particularly hazardous, on account of the rapidity with which important occurrences of the most opposite character now succeed each other.. The history of every lowing week refutes the statements and anticipations of the one that went before; and the most intrepid prophets have begun to be weary of the profession. M. de Pradt himself has for some time been silent. Under these circumstances you will not be surprised if my opinions and conjectures are completely contradicted before they reach you. Should they fortunately escape this accident, you will still consider them only as an extended newspaper article, which may very probably lose its interest at the next arrival.

Sept. 1, 1821.