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THE

ANNUAL

BIOGRAPHY AND OBITUARY,

FOR THE YEAR

1817.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1817.

Printed by A. Strahan,

New-Street-Square, London.

7

8-15

TO

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, FIELD MARSHAL

THE DUKE OF KENT AND STRATHERN,

EARL OF DUBLIN, K. G.

&c. &c. &c.

THE LIBERAL PATRON OF EDUCATION;

THE SUCCESSFUL ADVOCATE OF CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS;

THE CONSTANT FRIEND OF THE POOR AND UNPROTECTED; '

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PREFACE.

To insist on the advantages derived from Biography would be equally unnecessary and impertinent. Recent Memoirs may not indeed possess some of the advantages resulting from profound study and mature investigation; but they are eminently calculated to gratify a laudable spirit of inquiry, and that too, before curiosity has been suffered to evaporate in protracted expectation. By their means a multitude of fugitive and contemporaneous facts may be collected and embodied; while they serve to embalm the memory of those good and great men, deservedly dear to their friends and their Country!

It has been long lamented, that a Work, composed for the express purpose of perpetuating the reputation of our illustrious Countrymen, should still remain a desideratum in English Literature.

Accordingly, many of our celebrated Philosophers, Statesmen, and Warriors, frequently glide away from the stage on which they have acted such conspicuous

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