DF

LITERATURE,

FOR 1806;

OR

CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES OF HUMAN NATURE, AND MODERN MANNERS.

To which are added,

A general Uiew of Literature

DURING THAT PERIOD;

PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES Of eminent Literary, and Political Characters; WITH NOTES,

Historical, Critical, and Explanatory.

By FRANCIS WILLIAM BLAGDON, Esq. Author of the imperial folio History of India, (published under the Patronage of his Majesty,) of the quarto Life of Lord Viscount Nelson, &c. &c.

To be continued annually.

"Ubi plura nitent in carmine non ego paucis,
Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit,
Aut humana parum cavit natura."

HORACE.

LONDON:

Printed by J. G. Barnard, 79, Snow-Hill,

FOR B. CROSBY AND CO. STATIONERS' COURT,

PATERNOSTER ROW.