Memoirs of the Baron De Kolli, Relative to His Secret Mission in 1810, for Liberating Ferdinand VII. King of Spain, From Captivity at Valencay: To ... of the Queen of Etruria (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Baron De Kolli, Relative to His Secret Mission in 1810, for Liberating Ferdinand VII. King of Spain, From Captivity at Valencay: To Which Are Added, Memoirs of the Queen of Etruria

In determining to submit them to the public, the author has been induced to enter into such details as would be likely to excite the attention of the general reader, and make him enter feelingly into the interest of his situation. As a literary production, the work has little pretension the author's style is unaffected, and occasionally, we think, rather happy. He has avoided those tiresome digressions and interminable details, which distract the attention, and weary the patience of a reader. Brevity is a species of merit so rarely to be found in writers who relate their own adventures, that M. De Kolli deserves full credit for his attention to that quality.

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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Baron De Kolli: Relative to His Secret Mission in 1810, for Liberating Ferdinand VII. King of Spain, From Captivity at Valencay; To Which Are Added, Memoirs of the Queen of Etruria

The Memoirs of Baron Kolli, in their original state, formed little more than a species of diplomatic note, intended to be confined to the different courts of Europe, to whom copies of it were addressed; his correspondence and credential letters, the authentic declarations, official reports, &c. &c. occupied much the larger portion, and the author had limited himself to connecting the series of documents, by a dry chronological detail of the different acts of his mission.

In determining to submit them to the public, the author has been induced to enter into such details as would be likely to excite the attention of the general reader, and make him enter feelingly into the interest of his situation. As a literary production, the work has little pretension; the authors style is unaffected, and occasionally, we think, rather happy. He has avoided those tiresome digressions and interminable details, which distract the attention, and weary the patience of a reader. Brevity is a species of merit so rarely to be found in writers who relate their own adventures, that M. de Kolli deserves full credit for his attention to that quality.

As a curious historical document, relative to a secret mission of the highest consequence at the period it was undertaken, and of which, from its nature, scarcely any thing was previously known in this country, these Memoirs appear to the Editor to present no inconsiderable interest to the English reader. What effect might have been produced, had the mission proved successful, by the king's return to Spain at that moment, it is difficult to conjecture, and would be idle now to speculate upon.

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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.