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THE VARIOUS DISTRICTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM;
THE BRITISH CONNECTIONS

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Printed by Cox, SON, and BAYLIS, Great Queen-Street,

For C. TAYLOR, No. 108, Hatton Garden, Holborn.

March, 1808.

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PREFACE.

Ar the close of its Third Volume the LITERARY PANORAMA meets its friends and supporters with a cheerful countenance, and with many and sincere thanks for the favours it has received from them. And it is the more beholden to express its gratitude, because it has experienced an INCREASE OF SALE, principally by the very kind recommendations of those who have been best acquainted with its merits, by their constant perusal of it.

Our Subscribers have been the means of selling more copies of the work by their favourable representations of it to their friends, than all the advertisements of it in the public papers, though attended with an expense considerably exceeding a THOUSAND POUNDS. With the greatest deference we presume to consider this kindness as sanctioning the course we have pursued in our humble endeavours to communicate general information; and we can form no better wishes for our work, than that our new Subscribers may also interest themselves in procuring additional patronage, and in taking such opportunities of commending it as justice and propriety may

warrant.

We have to express our sincerest gratitude to those quarters from whence we have received communications of the greatest value and importance: we arrogate no undue distinction, when we say, that our Work is MARKED by this preference; and that a great proportion of its contents will be looked back to, for years to come, with unabated interest, this being the ONLY repository in which they will be known to be extant. We can honestly affirm, that a consciousness of this importance has induced us to pay the utmost attention to the correctness of our insertions and abstracts,

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