WITH

Sketches of Public Characters.

BY

WILLIAM HAZLITT.

“Come, draw the curtain, shew the picture.”

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM HONE,

45, LUDGATE HILL.

1819.

71

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.

22

74

82, 89

97

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

Brougham, Esq. M. P.

Mr. Coleridge's Lay Sermon

Illustrations of the Times Newspaper

141, 149, 159

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

169, 178

190

200

On the Principles of Population as affecting the Schemes of

Utopian Improvement

On the Application of Mr. Malthus's Principle to the Poor

Laws

415

424

To JOHN HUNT, Esq.

THE tried, steady, zealous, and conscientious advocate of the liberty of his country, and the rights of mankind;——

One of those few persons who are what they would be thought to be; sincere without offence, firm but temperate; uniting private worth to public principle; a friend in need, a patriot without an eye to himself; who never betrayed an individual or a cause he pretended to serve-in short, that rare character, a man of common sense and common honesty,

This volume is respectfully and gratefully

inscribed by

THE AUTHOR.