PAINTER TO AIS MAJESTY, RUE DU PONT DE LODI, NO 6.

Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die!

Henry II. Part II.

AT THE ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, AND SPANISH LIBRARY,

N° 18, RUE VIVIENNE.

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To this slight attempt at a sketch of an-
cient Scottish manners, the public have been
more attentive than the Author durst have
hoped or expected. He has heard, with a
mixture of satisfaction and humility, his
work ascribed to more than one respectable
name. Considerations, which seem weighty
in his particular situation, prevent his re-
leasing these gentlemen from suspicion by
placing his own name in the title-page; so
that, for the present at least, it must remain
uncertain, whether WAVERLEY be the work
of a poet or a critic, a lawyer or a clergy-
man, or whether the writer, to use Mrs Hei-
delberg's phrase, be « like Cerberus—three

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