This book represents, on the one hand , the fulfilment of a
long-cherished hope; on the other, an act of tardy expiation. The
crime for which expiation is offered is partly collective. The
reproach which lies on historians at large is considered in the
Prologue. The personal crime can be confessed only through the more
intimate medium of a Preface. More than thirty years ago I
published a little book on George Canning (John Murray, 1903) in
which I did less than justice to Castlereagh. The error was not
peculier to me, and might perhaps be regarded as venial in a
budding politician and inexperienced historian, who had spent some
of the happiest evenings of his Oxford life in the famous club
dedicated to Mr. Canning's memory. Yet all these years it has lain
heavy on a conscience too tender perhaps for an active participant
in politics. That participation combined with other circumstances
to delay the expiation even now inadequately made. But, however
inadequate, it cannot safely be deferred much longer.
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