TO THE FOURTH EDITION. 
be so sensibly affected by the encouragement 
he receives, as one who is conscious of wit- 
nessing, in the favourable reception shewn to 
his writings, the triumph of truth. Having 
every reason to be convinced that they have 
outlived the opposition made to them, in conse- 
quence of the description given of the Russians, he 
now confesses that, when he published the First 
Part of his Travels, he was not politician enough 
to be aware of the clamour it was likely to 
excite. In shewing that his testimonies con- 
cerning this people coincided with those of the 
most reputable writers who had gone before 
him 2 , he thought he had fulfilled an obligation 
allusion to the Foreigyi Editions of this work having been introduced, 
the author cannot avoid noticing; a French Translation of it, published 
at Parts m 1813, in three volumes octavo; because it is accompanied 
by Notes, said to have been inserted under the surveillance of Buona- 
parte. Those Notes are evidently intended to persuade the Russian 
Government oi the bad policy of an alliance with Great Britain : 
the writer, perhaps, not being aware that this alliance is not so 
much a matter of choice, as of necessity. French Notes explanatory of 
the text of an English author are sometimes highly diverting: of this 
ye 1,ave an instance in a Note, of the Edition now mentioned, upon 
the words “ purlieus of St. Giles's which the French translator ex- 
plains, b) sajing that they signify “ Cerlaines terrcs demembrees des 
fords royales, el sur lesqueltes te proprUtaire a droit de chasse." Voy. 
t°m.\. p. 163 , A’a/e (1) du Traducteur. Paris, 1813. 
(*.) Even the eulogists of the Russian Government might be cited to 
prove that the condition of the people does not differ from the account 
given Of it in this work. “ The peasantry,” says Mr. Eton, “ look upon 
j, 6 m0 " ardl as a divinity; styling him ( Zemnoi Bog) God op the 
Rr H- (.See Eton s Survey of the Turkish Empire, p. 133.) It 
remained 
