Excerpt from The Letters of the British Spy With regard to the subject himself, the mind most conscious of integrity, and the most happy in deserved success, may naturally shrink from that scrupulous analysis which is necessary to a full delineation of it. It is as naturally averse to the relation of many things. Trivial in them selves, but characteristic, and which on that account are eagerly sought when the actors are no more, though till then they may fail to excite curiosity or interest in the public. Contempo rary actors have their sensibilities also; a con sideration which, in tracing the competitions and conflicts through which an individual has wrought his way to honour and influence, may require many sketches to be withheld, much of the colouring softened, and much of what may be called the material action suppressed. 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.