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Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 4 (of 4)

Chapter 22: Transcriber’s Notes
By Horace Walpole
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About This Book

The volume offers a contemporary political chronicle of late-1760s Britain and Europe, recounting diplomatic tensions and naval incidents with France, Russian successes, and factional strife at the French court marked by the rise and fall of key ministers and royal favourites. It follows British parliamentary crises and ministerial changes, debates over influence and finance, protests in the City, challenges over press liberty and elections, unrest in the American colonies and the repeal of certain duties, and assorted trials and public scandals, all presented through personal observation, anecdote, and reflections on constitutional balance and political character.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks were corrected when the omission was obvious, and otherwise retained. Two missing closing parentheses and two missing right brackets were added.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.

In the original book, footnotes in the Chapters were identified numerically, while footnotes in the Appendix were identified symbolically. In this eBook, all footnotes are in one ascending numerical sequence.

The Table of Contents omitted the line “CHAPTER IX” and the associated date. The Transcriber added them to this eBook.

The other three volumes of this series are available at no charge from Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org):
Volume I: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57043
Volume II: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57140
Volume III: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58140