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A Publisher and His Friends

CHAPTER XIV
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venu de Sainte Helene" was written by M.Frederic Lullin de Chateauvieux, "genevois deja connu dans le monde savant.

Cet ecrivain a avoue, apres vingt cinq ans de silence, qu'il avait compose l'ouvrage en 1816, qu'il avait porte lui-meme a Londres, et l'avait mis a la poste, a l'adresse du Libraire Murray."] Lord Holland has a motion on our treatment of Buonaparte at St.Helena for Wednesday next; and on Monday I shall publish.

You will have seen Buonaparte's Memorial on this subject, complaining bitterly of all; pungent but very injudicious, as it must offend all the other allied powers to be reminded of their former prostration.
_April_ 12, 1817.
Our friend Southey has got into a confounded scrape.

Some twenty years ago, when he knew no better and was a Republican, he wrote a certain drama, entitled, "Wat Tyler," in order to disseminate wholesome doctrine amongst the _lower_ orders.

This he presented to a friend, with a fraternal embrace, who was at that time enjoying the cool reflection generated by his residence in Newgate.


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