insensible advances are less apt to excite attention. Of these two parts of the general design, the first was left by the Author, in the state in which he apparently meant to give it to the public, and in which it now appears.-Great part of the materials for the history of the second period, as well as for an account of the present state of the English Government had also been collected, and partly arranged by him but considerable alterations on the manuscripts would be requisite, before these very important parts of the work could be offered to the public. There were found, however, among Mr. Millar's papers several dissertations on subjects connected with the later history of the Government, Manners, and Literature of England, the substance of which, it would appear, he had intended to introduce into his work; these dissertations seem to contain so many ingenious and interesting speculations, that it has been judged proper to make them public, notwithstanding the unfinished state of the concluding Essay. College Glasgow. 14th March, 1803. SECT. I. Of the Government of Scotland, from the Time when Britain was aban- Page Page SECT. III. Of the Government of Scotland, from the Union of the Scottish and Eng- lish Crowns, to that of the two Kingdoms 73 CHAP. II. Changes in the Political State of England from the Accession of the House of Stuart-The Advancement of Commerce and Manufactures-Institu- tions for National Defence-Different 151 CHAP. IV. Progress of the Disputes be- tween the King and Parliament, during the Reigns of James I. and of Charles I. 149 SECT. I. The Reign of James I. and that of Charles I. from his Accession to the Meeting of the Long Parliament SECT. II. Of the Reign of Charles I. from the Meeting of the Long Parliament to the Commencement of the Civil War 227 SECT. III. Of the Reign of Charles I. |