advertisement to fourth edition. 
to the public. Leaving, however, this point 
to be decided by his adversaries; and their 
harmless opposition, to the inevitable fate of 
all political struggles, fitted only to serve the 
interests of parly ; and, moreover, being called 
upon for a Fourth Edition of the particular portion 
of his work against which so much hostility was 
levelled ; he has nothing more to say of it, than 
that it is, at length, printed in a more commo- 
dious form, and with every attention to accuracy 
which repeated revision has enabled him to 
bestow. 
remained for Mr. Thornton (Present State of Turkey , vol.U.p.09. Note. 
Land. 1809) to shew what were Mr. Eton’s real sentiments concerning 
the Russian Government; by contrasting the observations he made 
after the death of Catherine, with those which he had before published. 
“ Two years,” observes Mr. Thornton, “ after writing an eulogium on 
the Russian Government, Mr. Eton wrote his Postscript ; though both 
were published together. The Empress Catherine was then dead; 
and then we are told, “ that it is time the voice of truth shall 
he heard.” — “It is only in foreign politics,” says Mr. Eton, “that she 
(Catherine) appears great: as to the internal government of the 
(Russian) Empire, a most scandalous negligence, and a general corrup- 
tion in the management of affairs, was visible, in every department, 
from Petersburg to Kamchatka." 
Cambridge , Jan. I. 1816. 
