Historical Memoir of a Mission to the Court of Vienna in 1806. With a selection from his despatches

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HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF* A MISSION T(l THE COURT OF VIENNA in 1806. BY THE RT. HON. SIR ROBERT ADAIR, G.C.B. WITH A SELECTION FROM HIS DESPATCHES, PUBLISHED BY PERMISSION OF THE PROPER AUTHORITIES. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, BEOWN, GEEEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER- ROW. 1844. NOTICE. The Publishers of this work beg to state that it is private property, protected by the late Copy right Act, the 5 & 6 Victoria, c. 4!i. They beg also to state that any person having in his possession, within the United Kingdom, for sale or hire, one or more copies printed abroad of any English work protected by the Act referred to, is liable to a penalty, which, in cases affecting their interests, they intend to enforce. The Public are farther informed that the Act 5 & 6 Victoria, c. 47- s. 24., prohibits the im portation of all works printed in foreign countries, of which the copyright is not expired.

Even single copies, though for the especial use of the importers and marked with their names, are excluded ; and the Customs officers in the different ports are strictly enjoined to carry this regulation into effect. N.B — The above regulations are in force in all British colonies and dependencies, as well as in the United Kingdom. PrinteoHjy A._Spoji*SwoonE, New-Sfreef^Square. TO EARL GREY. My dear Lord, I inscribe to you this record of a period, full of danger to Europe, and of difficulty in our relations with the Continental Powers, in which you bore a distinguished part. Accept it, in remembrance of the great man whom, on his death, you succeeded in the direction of our Foreign Affairs. Accept it, also, in the name of our fifty years' friendship, increasing on my side in veneration as life and its businesses recede from me. ROBERT ADAIR. Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, 10th April, 1844.

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