Excerpt from North British Review, Vol. 9: May and August, 1848 This distrust ofthe king was all but uni versal; and to it he may ascribe the loss of his throne. For though the Republican party was far from being insignificant, it was still a small minority, and certainly would never have seen its hopes realized, if the universal people - attached to monarchi cal institutions as they were - had not felt that trust was no more to be put in princes, when they found that, under the Sovereign whom they had themselves set up, and whom they had fettered with so many restrictions in a carefully pondered and amended charter, they were in a worse condition than before, and that the whips of his predecessor had been exchanged for very scorpions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.