public ones of the year, which are themselves often inaccurate, often contradictory. We find it very difficult to trace the true causes of events, which time only can draw from obscurity. It is hard to find a connexion between the facts upon whose authenticity we may depend. And in the mass of materials of a dubious authority, it is equally hard to know what ought to be chosen, to make out such a connection. Yet with all these difficulties, we are of opinion that the reader will find some entertainment, as well as some help to his memory, from reading a connected series of those very remarkable and interesting events which this war has produced, and which he has hitherto no where seen but in a loose detached manner. If we can do this we are satisfied; for we do not pretend to give the name of history to what we
have written.
