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 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SIXTH EDITION. So long as this History was a subject of active contro- versy, I kept its language unchanged, throwing always into separate, though appended, ' notes,' those correc- tions and additions which I thought fit to make upon the issue of each new edition ; but the safeguard thus adopted and maintained dining a period of nearly fourteen years can at last be dispensed with, and accordingly the text of the narrative has been now for the first time revised. The 14th chapter, however, concerns the actions and the character of a sovereign who, although at the height of his power when I published my words in 1863, was destined to meet dire reverses, and is now no more. Under these conditions, I have judged it right to let the chapter reappear without the change of one word. A. W. K. December -20, laid.