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Printed by S. GOSNELL, Little Queen Street, Holborn.

Pickering

5-18-29 241248 1800l.

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OF THE

EDITOR.

THE idea of this compilation was fuggefted by the great value that has frequently been fet upon collections of fcraps cut out of newfpapers-the title, by that of a French book*, of a nature fomewhat fimilar.

In making the felection, recourfe has feldom been had to publications of earlier date than the year 1793; a period when the collifion of political parties, and the momentous incidents of the war, and of the French revolution, began to clicit ftronger flashes of wit and fatire, from the mind of genius, than had been produced for a long time before.

By far the greater part of the Effays and Jeux d'Esprit thus rescued from oblivion, are of an

*L'Esprit des Journaux.

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SPIRIT

OF THE

PUBLIC JOURNALS

FOR

1797.

BEING

AN IMPARTIAL SELECTION

OF THE MOST EXQUISITE

ESSAYS AND JEUX D'ESPRITS,

PRINCIPALLY PROSE,

THAT APPEAR IN THE

NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS.

WITH

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND ANECDOTES

OF

MANY OF THE PERSONS ALLUDED TO.

VOL. I.

THE THIRD EDITION.

To be continued Annually.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JAMES RIDGWAY, YORK STREET,

ST. JAMES'S SQUARE.

Printed by S. GOSNELL,

Little Queen Street, Holborn.

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