Elisabeth : or, The exiles of Siberia : a tale, founded upon facts . u*V^ ^?* .^ .ft-. •Si,. ElùabaJi. a^ffm. vcurself nt/Jt the ry^tra-s Fl-BLISHED BT JOHN Î. ELIZABETH; THE EXILES OF SIBERIA. FOUNDED UPON FACTS. FHOM THE IRLSCIl OF MADAME COTTIN. THE ORIGINAL REVIiEO AND CORRECTED. LONDON:PRINTED FOR JOHN SHARPE, PICCADILLY; BY C. WHITTINGHAM, CHISWICK. M DCCCXXIl. PREFACE. 1 HE incident which gave rise to this his-tory is founded in truth. No imagina-tion, however fertile, could produce actionsso heroic, or sentiments so noble and ele-vated.—The heart
Elisabeth : or, The exiles of Siberia : a tale, founded upon facts . u*V^ ^?* .^ .ft-. •Si,. ElùabaJi. a^ffm. vcurself nt/Jt the ry^tra-s Fl-BLISHED BT JOHN Î. ELIZABETH; THE EXILES OF SIBERIA. FOUNDED UPON FACTS. FHOM THE IRLSCIl OF MADAME COTTIN. THE ORIGINAL REVIiEO AND CORRECTED. LONDON:PRINTED FOR JOHN SHARPE, PICCADILLY; BY C. WHITTINGHAM, CHISWICK. M DCCCXXIl. PREFACE. 1 HE incident which gave rise to this his-tory is founded in truth. No imagina-tion, however fertile, could produce actionsso heroic, or sentiments so noble and ele-vated.—The heart alone could inspirethem. The daughter who conceived the gloriousdesign of delivering her parents from exile,and who carried this design into execution,in spite of the various and almost insur-mountable obstacles which opposed her, isnot the child of fiction, but of nature. She B a PREFACE. really existed, nay, does still exist; andshould my tale possess any of the powersof attraction, it vAW from this source beprincipally derived. Authors have been frequently accused ofrepresenting the belisabethorexile00cott
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