Printed by Jaques and Co. Lower Sloane Street, Chekea,

The Printer, for reasons only known to an artist, assured the Publifher that this Collection would be permanent and the matter of it indelible, from the nature of the ink which he ufed, and the chemical compofition with which the paper was tempered before it was committed to the prefs; and this he ftated in the words of an Author, whofe volume the Publisher never Jaw.

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Je l'ay imprimè d'une encre non commune aux autres "Imprimeurs, laquelle j'ai faite mixtionnée et compofée avec jus d'abfynthe, qui empechera que les rats, "les fouris, les teignes, et autres vermines ne le puiffent ronger. J'ai mouillè mon papier d'une certaine compo"fition que tout le monde n'eft capable de comprendre. "Les vers ne pourront confommer le deffus, ayant auffi "arrofé fa couverture de l'huile de cedre, que les Grecs "appellent Cedroleon."

DECLARATION prononcée à haute voix, en 1636, par L'ARCHIDIABLE dans l'Imprimerie de la Veuve de Nicolas Courant à Rouen en Normandie, à une grande Diablerie à beaucoup de personages.

1. Letters on the Purfuits of Literature, figned HORATIO.

LETTER I.

II.

III.

Page

(Morning Herald.)

2. An Account of the Literary Opera called SEMIRAMIDE

IN LONDRA, as it was performed under the Direction of

Sir Joseph Banks in Soho Square. (Morning Herald.)

3. An Account of the Sale of a Literary Vessel Extraordinary,

named THE REVENGE, at Lloyd's Coffee-Houfe.

(Morning Chronicle.)

4. The Order of the Proceffion observed in THE LITERARY

FUNERAL of the late GEORGE CHALMERS, Efq.

F. R. S. F. S. A. and Chief Clerk of the Board of

Trade and Plantations. (Morning Herald.)

5. The Apologift and the Sovereign, or Words of Comfort,

in a Letter from BARBADORO. (Morning Chronicle.)

6. The Apparition of the Ghoft of the late GEORGE CHAL-

MERS, Efq. F.R.S. S.A. in the Precincts of the Treasury;

in a Second Letter from BARBADORO. (Morning Chronicle.) 34

7. The Letters, Political and Literary, of LAURENTIUS

MUSAMBERTIUS, occafioned by the Appearance of the

Poem called THE SOVEREIGN, addreffed to his Impe-

rial

rial Majefty PAUL, Emperor of all the Ruffias, by
CHARLES SMALL PYBUS, M.P. One of the Lords
Commiffioners of the Treasury.

LETTER I.

Page

II.

III.

IV.

-V.

N. B. Thefe Letters by LAURENTIUS MUSAMBERTIUS contain ne : Specific Critique on Mr. Pybus's Poem, which is out of the reach of Criticifm. (Morning Chronicle.)

8. The Orgies of Thefpis; or the Mysteries of Parnaffus and

Caftle Howard! in a Letter from PETRONIUS AR-
BITER on the Earl of CARLISLE's Tragedy of THE
STEP-MOTHER. (Morning Chronicle.)

9. BARBADORO's Third Letter; inclosing the Original Letter
from THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL to THE RT. HON.
WILLIAM PITT, containing a faithful Narrative of what
paffed on the Apparition of the Ghoft of the late
GEORGE CHALMERS, Efq. F. R. S. S. A. in the Pre-
cincts of the Treasury, after his Literary Interment.
(Morning Chronicle.)

N. B. This Letter should have been printed at page 37.

10. An Account of the Imperial Concert at the Great Room

at the Opera House, on April 23, 1800, St. George's
Day. By a Mufical Anti-Jacobin.

11, Some Account of an Unpublished State-Work in MS. in Profe and Verfe, entitled, "THE IMPERIAL METAMORPHOSIS," in 1801.

No. I.
No. II.

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