JOHN MILLAR, ESQ.

Professor of Law in the University of Glasgow.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN, No. 39, LUDGATE STREET.

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

CHARLES JAMES FOX.

SIR,

I SHALL, perhaps, be thought guilty of presumption, in wishing to draw your attention to the following publication. The truth is, it appears to me scarcely possible for any man to write a constitutional history of England, without having Mr. Fox almost constantly in his thoughts.

In delineating the progress of the English government, I have endeavoured to avoid those fond preposses