Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ... From observations on my former volume from several quarters, my worthy publishers have given me to understand, that Appendices are by some readers considered to be mere appendages of little consequence to a work, and which may be as conveniently dispensed with as published. It happens, however, that these additions on my part, are as intrinsically a portion of my biography as the narrative from which they are detached; and that the sole reason for so detaching them, is to preserve the best order I can with so many miscellaneous materials without the interruption of co-lateral affairs which form compact little episodes by themselves. As Samson's strength lay in his locks, O'Connell's in his tail, and every lady's epistolary correspondence in her postscripts, so would I wish the public to believe that my weakness will not be found diffused in this division of my labour. "The Satirist, or Monthly Meteor," represents a very essential section of my literary career. It was commenced by Mr. George Manners on the 1st of October, 1807, and by its talent and virulence very speedily attracted general notice, warm partisanship, and bitter hate. The first coloured caricature represented Lord Grenville, Lord Temple, Lord Moira, Lord Erskine, Sheridan, John Kemble, Windham, Whitbread, Burdett, Home Tooke, and other public characters, political, dramatic, and literary; and over them the tall figure of the Satirist brandishing Not to be confounded with the " Satiiist" newspaper, of much later date. a whip. This took; and the publication went prosperously on, lashing without mercy the Whig, "all the talents," statesmen, the authors of books obnoxious to the critics, and the players who, through any cause, incurred their displeasure. Their boundless...
