Excerpt from England and America, 1763 to 1783, Vol. 2: The History of a Reaction, 1779 to 1783Lord Sandwich, exceedingly terrified, escaped through the garden with his mistress Miss Reay, to the Horse Guards, and there betrayed a most manifest panic. - Walpole, Last journals. It is pleasant to see those who condemned the towns of America to fire and sword, terrified with crackers. Walpole to Lady Ossory, Feb. 17, 1779.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.