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Excerpt from The Revolutions of Spain, From 1808 to the End of 1836, Vol. 1 of 2: With Biographical Sketches of the Most Distinguished Personages, and a Narrative of the War in the Peninsula Down to the Present Time, From the Most Authentic Sources IN the celebrated conference of nations which followed the final overthrow of Napoleon, the maintenance of general tranquillity formed the basis of an European league, the leading object of which was to prevent the recurrence of war by resorting to a system of mediation; recognising, on the one hand, the perfect independence of each State in its own internal concerns, and, on the other, guarding against everything likely to affect the common safety of all. 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.