Appendix 2: Thoughts on the Foreign Policy of England by Jacob Sternwall. London: James Ridgway, Piccadilly 1827

Abstract

A few months after the first letters in Appendix 1 were written, a 51 page octavo pamphlet was issued by the radical London publisher, James Ridgway, called Thoughts on the Foreign Policy of England. Almost a quarter of it was excerpted in the columns ofThe Times where the reviewer remarked on its alleged authorship by one Jacob Sternwall,

an uncouth name, and probably an assumed one; but in sentiments and spirit the publication there appears to be nothing fictitious. The object of the author, who writes with great force and ardour, is to recommend the cause of Spain to the people of Great Britain, on simple calculations of national policy, as their own.¹