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cendants of his uncle, and assisted 
them with money to fit them out for 
their emigration, The editor has 
seen a written memorandum of his, 
expressing his regret at hearing no 
more of them after their departure. 
‘¢ From the circumstance of these, 
the only grandchildren of colonel 
Hutchinson, standing in need of 
this pecuniary assistance, from the 
mention Mrs. Hutchinson makes 
of her husband’s debts, and from 
an expression contained in that 
book which she addresses to her 
daughter Mrs. Orgill, desiring her 
not to despise her advice though 
she sees her in adversity, it is highly 
probable that, even after selling her 
husband’s estates, the sum to be de- 
vided left each member of the fa- 
mily in strait circumstances. 
s¢ The affection and well-merited 
esteem with which Mrs, Hutchin- 
son speaks of her brother sir Allen 
Apsley, will excite an interest in 
the reader to know what became 
of him and his posterity ; the short 
pedigree subjoined will shew, that 
by two marriages, and by the death 
of his grandson in his minority, the 
family of Apsley entirely merged in 
the noble family of Bathurst, who 
have adopted the name Apsley as 
their second title ; there are five or 
six of the family of Apsley entomb- 
ed in Wesminster Abbey, near to 
the entrance of Henry the seventh’s 
chapel.”’ 
The editor then enters into an 
apology for the republican, as welt 
as puritanical sentiments of the 
writer, and adds : 
“© So much having been said 
for the purpose of obviating 
misapprehension as to the effect 
ef this work, it may be fur. 
ther expected that some merit or 
utility should be shewn, to justify 
the editor in presenting it to the 
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public notice. Being not the child 
of his brain and fancy, but of his 
adoption and judgment, he may be 
\Supposed to view it with so much 
the less partiality, and allowed to 
speak of it with so much the more 
freedom. 
‘¢ The only ends for which any 
book can reasonably be published 
are to inform, to amuse, or to 
improve : but unless many persons 
of highly reputed judgment are mis- 
taken as well as ourselves, this 
work will be found to attain all 
three of them. In point of amuse. 
ment, perhaps novelty or curiosity 
holds the foremost rank; and 
surely we risque little in saying 
that a history of a period the most 
remarkable in the British annals, 
written one hundred and fifty years 
ago by a lady, of elevated birth, of 
a most comprehensive and highly 
cultivated mind, herself a witness of 
many of the scenes she describes, 
and active in several of them, is 
a literary curiosity of no mean 
sort. 
*¢ As to information, although, 
there are many histories of the same 
period, there is not one that is ge- 
nerally considered satisfactory ; 
most of them carry evident marks 
of prejudice or partiality ; nor 
were any of those which are now 
read, written at, or near the time, 
or by persons who had an oppor- 
tunity of being well acquainted 
with what was passing, except that 
of Clarendon. But any one who 
should take the pains, which the 
editor has done, to examine Cla- 
rendon’s state papers, would find 
therein documents much better 
calcu'ated to support Mrs. Hutch- 
inson’s representation of affairs 
than that which he himself has 
given. Mrs, Hutchinson writing 
from a motive which will very sel- 
dom 
