LETTER FROM A NEW MEMBER TO HIS FRIEND IN THE COUNTRY.
THE. POLITICAL RECEIPT BOOK,. FOR THE YEAR 1784.
HINTS. FROM DR. PRETTYMAN, THE COMMIS, TO THE PREMIER’S PORTER.
DIALOGUE. BETWEEN A CERTAIN PERSONAGE AND HIS MINISTER.
NEW ABSTRACT. OF THE. BUDGET,. FOR 1784.
THEATRICAL INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY.
PART II.
A NEW BALLAD,. ENTITLED AND CALLED. BILLY EDEN,. OR, THE. RENEGADO SCOUT.
A NEW SONG,. ENTITLED. MASTER BILLY’S BUDGET;. OR,. A TOUCH ON THE TIMES.
JOURNAL. OF THE. RIGHT HON. HENRY DUNDAS.
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION.
Three very large impressions of the following work being already sold, and the demand for it daily increasing, it is now a fourth time submitted to the Public, revised and corrected from the many literal errors, which, with every precaution, will too often deform a first edition; especially when circumstances render an early publication necessary.
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In the present edition some few alterations have been made, but none of any considerable magnitude; except that the Appendix of Miscellaneous Pieces is here suppressed. This has been done, in some degree, for the conveniency of binding this first part of the CRITICISMS ON THE ROLLIAD with the second; but more, indeed, in consequence of a design, which we at present entertain, of printing most of those pieces with other productions of the same Authors in one octavo volume, under the title of POLITICAL MISCELLANIES.
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As the bulk and matter of the book are thus diminished, the price also is proportionally reduced. Where the CRITICISMS seem to require any elucidation from the contents of the former Appendix, extracts are now given at the bottom of the page instead of the references in our former Editions.
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This slight change we flatter ourselves will not be disapproved by the Public; and we hope, that they will not receive with a less degree of favour the intimation here given of the Miscellaneous Volume, which will probably be published in the course of the ensuing winter.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The CRITICISMS ON THE ROLLIAD, in their original form, excited such a general curiosity, that three spurious editions have already been sold, independently of their publication in various of the Daily Papers, and Monthly Magazines. Such a marked testimony in their favour, cannot but be peculiarly flattering to us. We therefore thought it incumbent on us in return, to exert our utmost endeavours in rendering them, as far as our judgment will direct us, yet more worthy of that attention with which they have been honoured, imperfect as they fell from us, through a channel, that did not seem necessarily to demand any very great degree of precision.
In the present edition some few passages have been expunged; others softened; many enlarged; more corrected; and two whole numbers, with the greater part of a third, are altogether new. A poeticoprosaical Dedication to SIR LLOYD KENYON, now Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench, has also been added; and an Appendix is now given, consisting of Miscellaneous Pieces, to which the Criticisms incidentally refer.
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