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Arabella Stuart
[Frontispiece]






                              THE WORKS
                                  OF
                         G. P. R. JAMES, ESQ.


                 REVISED AND CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR,


                    WITH AN INTRODUCTORY PREFACE.


"D'autres auteurs l'ont encore plus avili, (le roman,) en y mêlant les
tableaux dégoutant du vice; et tandis que le premier avantage des
fictions est de rassembler autour de l'homme tout ce qui, dans la
nature, peut lui servir de leçon ou de modèle, on a imaginé qu'on
tirerait une utilité quelconque des peintures odieuses de mauvaises
m[oe]urs; comme si elles pouvaient jamais laisser le c[oe]ur qui les
repousse, dans une situation aussi pure que le c[oe]ur qui les aurait
toujours ignorées. Mais un roman tel qu'on peut le concevoir, tel que
nous en avons quelques modèles, est une des plus belles productions de
l'esprit humain, une des plus influentes sur la morale des individus,
qui doit former ensuite les m[oe]urs publiques."--MADAME DE STAEL.
_Essai sur les Fictions_.

         "Poca favilla gran nomma seconda:
          Forse diretro a me, con miglior voci
          Si pregherà, perché Cirra risponda."
                         DANTE. _Paradiso_, Canto I.



                              VOL. XIX.

                           ARABELLA STUART.



                               LONDON:
                      SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.
                       STATIONERS' HALL COURT.
                             M DCCC XLIX.











                           ARABELLA STUART:



                              A Romance


                        FROM ENGLISH HISTORY.


                                  BY


                         G. P. R. JAMES, ESQ.


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                               LONDON:
                      SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.
                       STATIONERS' HALL COURT.
                             M DCCC XLIX.






                               CONTENTS

     CHAPTER

     Preface.
     I.
     II.
     III.
     IV.
     V.
     VI.
     VII.
     VIII.
     IX.
     X.
     XI.
     XII.
     XIII.
     XIV.
     XV.
     XVI.
     XVII.
     XVIII.
     XIX.
     XX.
     XXI.
     XXII.
     XXIII
     XXIV.
     XXV.
     XXVI.
     XXVII.
     XXVIII.
     XXIX.
     XXX.
     XXXI.
     XXXII.
     XXXIII.
     XXXIV.
     XXXV.
     XXXVI.
     XXXVII.
     XXXVIII.
     XXXIX.
     XL.
     XLI.
     XLII.
     XLIII.
     XLIV.
     XLV.
     XLVI.


                           TO REAR-ADMIRAL

                  SIR GEORGE F. SEYMOUR, C.B. G.C.H.

                             &c. &c. &c.

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MY DEAR SIR,

If the dedication of a work like the present could afford any adequate
expression of high respect and regard, I should feel greater pleasure
than I do in offering you these pages; but such things have become so
common, that, though every one who knows you will understand the
feelings which induce me to present you with this small tribute, yet I
cannot but be aware that it is very little worthy of your acceptance.
You will receive it, however, I know, with the same kindness which you
have frequently displayed towards me, as a mark, however slight, of my
gratitude for the interest you have always shown in myself and my
works, and as a testimony of unfeigned esteem from one, who