Excerpt from A Brief Exposition of the Foreign Policy of Mr. Canning: As Contracted With That of the Existing Administration In a pamphlet which has been lately published, professing to give "An authentic Account of Mr. Canning's Policy towards Portugal," there is recorded the following very remarkable observation, which he is reported to have made a few days before his death: - "I have laboured hard for the last few years to place the country in the high station which she now holds - two years of the Duke of Wellington's Government will undo all that I have done." The pamphlet concludes with asking, whether (the two years having expired) "the prophecy has been falsified by the event?" 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.