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& OPINIONS
MAXIMS
OF THE
SELECTED FROM
HIS GRACE’S WRITINGS & SPEECHES,
DURING A PUBLIC LIFE OF MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY;
WITH
& Dtograpljt'cal JFUmotv.
BY G. H. FRANCIS, ESQ.
So many works have already appeared of which the Duke of Wellington has been the subject, that an explanation is due to thepublic on the occasion of adding one more to the number.
That explanation consists in the fact, that those works have beenalmost exclusively occupied with the military exploits of the Duke ,which rendered him so illustrious during the first twenty years of hispublic life; while his political career, which may be said to have con-stituted a second life, distinct and different from the other, has beencomparatively neglected.
To meet the want thus left unsatisfied, the Editor of these pageshas endeavoured to supply materials, by which a just estimate may beformed of the Duke of Wellington ’s claims as a minister and as astatesman.
The volume will be found to contain the Duke ’s deliberate opinionsas a member of the House of Peers , and during many years, as aminister, upon the great questions which have agitated the publicmind since the commencement of the present century.
If there are those who hold the Duke of Wellington in light estima-tion as a politician, they will not continue to entertain that opinion,the Editor believes, after having dispassionately read the extracts ofwhich this work is composed.
Interspersed with the Duke ’s more elaborate opinions, will be foundhis maxims on public policy, which, though few and unpretending,may be said to have sunk into the national mind.
HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,
13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.