WITH

Sketches of Public Characters.

BY

WILLIAM HAZLITT.

"Come, draw the curtain, shew the picture."

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM HONE,

45, LUDGATE HILL.

1819.

J. M'Creery, Printer,

Black-Horse-Court, London.

Whether the Friends of Freedom can entertain any sanguine

hopes of the Favorable Results of the ensuing Congress

The Lay of the Laureate

Mr. Owen's" New View of Society," &c.

Speeches of Charles C. Western, Esq. M. P. and Henry

Brougham, Esq. M. P.

Mr. Coleridge's Lay Sermon

Statesman's Manual

Lay Sermon

Buonaparte and Muller.

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22, 27, 34, 50, 57

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Illustrations of the Times Newspaper

Mr. Macirone's "Interesting Facts relating to the Fall and

Death of Joachim Murat, King of Naples."

Wat Tyler and the Quarterly Review

The Courier and Wat Tyler