Excerpt from The Journal and Correspondence of William, Lord of Auckland, Vol. 1 of 2: With a Preface and Introduction The Letters now published have been selected from a large mass of correspondence, public and private, left by William, the first Lord Auckland. Some of them are official, others private and familiar. Man of them were written from Paris in 1786, during the negotiation of the Commercial Treaty with France, in which Lord Auckland bore a principal part. Little apology is, perhaps, required for a publication of this nature, since the Public generally receives with favour whatever, in the shape of contemporary docu ments or family papers, tends to throw light on the history of a particular period. But, from the frequent references made to Mr. Pitt's Commercial Treaty with France in recent debates in Parliament, it has been inferred that a correspondence which describes almost day by day the progress of the negotiation, and gives a lively picture of the actors in it, might, at the present moment, possess a peculiar interest. 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.