Excerpt from Records of Stirring Times: Based Upon Unpublished Documents From 1726 1822 I am profoundly aware of my own responsibilities in editing the present collection Of letters and papers. The best qualification I bring to the task beyond my pleasure in undertaking it, lies in the fact that I have had an intimate knowledge, from my earliest days, both of Continental life and languages. Already as a little child, I was taken to the Baden Court, my mother having a sincere attachment for the Grand Duchess Sophie of Baden, daughter of the dethroned King of Sweden, to whom reference is made in these pages. From nursery days I have been acquainted with the small country house at Rohrbach, near Heidelberg, given to the Margravine Amelia of Baden by King Maximilian of Bavaria as a summer residence, and visited by the Emperor Alexander of Russia in 18148 and again in 1815, when the Russian Headquarters were at Heidelberg. I have been in touch all my life with those closely connected with international Court and political life, and I can only hope that the knowledge thus acquired may have proved of service in the work I have undertaken. 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.