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BY NICHOLS, SON, AND BENTLEY, AT CICERO'S HEAD,
RED-LION-PASSAGE, FLEET-STREET,

1814.

ADVERTISEMENT.

IN
my
endeavours to continue this Collection of
"LITERARY ANECDOTES" to the end of the EIGHT-
EENTH CENTURY, I find it impracticable to compress
into a single Volume an immense mass of materials,
augmented as they have unexpectedly been by the
numerous contributions of my Literary Friends.

It might, perhaps, have been prudent, not to

have made public this Apology, till I could at the

same time have announced that the Work was

finished. But, on mature consideration, I think

it more respectful to the liberal Encouragers of

the former Volumes, and to those particularly who

have honoured me by their communications, to

return them as speedily as possible their own

"Additions and Corrections;" with an assurance,

that the next (and positively the last) Volume, with

a proper Index, shall proceed with as much dispatch

as the nature of such an undertaking will permit a

Septuagenarian to exert.-Every step, as I advance,

becomes more seriously difficult. I am now, in

reality, "walking upon ashes under which the fire

is not extinguished."

The interesting communications of the Honour-

able GEORGE HARDINGE, His Majesty's Justice for
the Counties of Glamorgan, Brecknock, and Rad-
nor; and of GEORGE ALLAN, Esq. M. P. for the
City of Durham; sufficiently speak for themselves-
as will the rich gleanings from the very abundant
epistolary harvest of Dr. ZACHARY GREY, Dr.
LORT, Dr. DUCAREL, Mr. GEORGE ASHBY, Mr.
BOWYER, Mr, ALLAN, and the MODERN CAmden.

To many other excellent Correspondents my warmest thanks are gratefully offered. At the head of these must again appear my steady and most accurate Friend Mr. BINDLEY - and it would be unjust were I not to particularize Dr. VINCENT, the very Reverend and learned Dean of Westminster; the Rev. EDWARD BALME; the Rev. WILLIAM BELOE; EDWARD BROOKE, Esq.; JAMES BROWN, Esq.; Sir EGERTON BRYDGES, K. J. and M. P.; ALEXANDER CHALMERS, Esq.; the Rev. RALPH CHURTON, Archdeacon of St. David's; Sir THOMAS GERY CULLUM, Bart.; EDWARD-JEREMIAH CURTEIS, Esq.; the Rev. T.F. DIBDIN; I. D'ISRAELI, Esq.; JAMES DowLAND, Esq.; Mr. GEORGE DYER; HENRY ELLIS, Esq.; Mr. WILLIAM HARRIS; JOSEPH HASLEWOOD, Esq.; Mr. JOSEPH HUNTER; THOMAS JOHNES, Esq, M. P.; the Rev. EDWARD JONES; Mr. STEPHEN JONES; the Rev. WILLIAM LAYTON; J. H. MARKLAND, Esq.; the Rev. THOMAS MARTYN, Professor of Botany at Cambridge; JOSEPH MOSER, Esq.; Mr. JOHN NOORTHOUCK; Mr. JAMES NUNN; WIL LIAM STEVENSON, Esq.; JAMES-WALLIS STREET, Esq. (the present Upper Warden of the Stationers' Company); the Rev. ROBERT WATTS; the Rev. STEPHEN WESTON; JOHN EARDLEY-WILMOT, Esq.; Mr. WALTER WILSON; the Rev. FRANCIS WRANGHAM *; and a learned Correspondent who signs D. A. Y.

Several other Gentlemen also, whose names I am not at liberty to mention, have favoured me with material elucidations of the former Volumes.

April 23, 1814.

J. N.

* Whose accurate notes, with some others, received too late for the present Volume, will be duly incorporated in the next.

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