ADVERTISEMENT. THE Fifth Volume of "Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century," has, alas! become a posthumous publication. It was the employment of the latter days of its benevolent and indefatigable Editor, whose happiness it was to retain his intellectual faculties to the extremity of a long life, and whose habits of application and research deserted him not even amid the infirmities of declining years. The last sheet of the memoir of Bishop Barrington he heard read to him very shortly before his death, which, as is known, could not have been more sudden than it was. Under the existing circumstances it is only to be feared that some of the valuable contributions to the present volume should not be sufficiently acknowledged. For the lively and interesting memoir of Mr. Gulston, and the accompanying letters, the Editor was indebted to the present Miss GULSTON, niece to the fair writer of the memoir. The important letters of the historian Carte were communicated by J. D. WILLIAMS, Esq. of Shrewsbury. For the memoir of Archdeacon Jefferson the public are obliged to the Rev. J. LoWTHIAN of Kellington near Ferrybridge; for that of the Rev. Dr. William Payne to WILLIAM HOPKINSON, Esq. of Stamford. The letters of Dr. Priestley were com municated by Mr. READER of Coventry; and, as To the present Volume it is intended (with per- mission of the Public) to add two more, by which the "Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eight- eenth Century," will be completed in seven volumes. The sixth will be composed of miscellaneous papers of a similar nature to the preceding parts of the Work, and several of which are already prepared for the press by the deceased Editor; and in the last it is proposed to furnish a copious Index to the whole, preceded by such additional memoirs of Mr. Nichols as are necessary to complete his own plain FIFTH VOLUME. Page. Memoirs of Joseph Gulston, Esq. F. S. A.. and Letters of the Rio Joseph Gulston, Esq. Letters of Joseph Gulston, Esq. jun. M.P... the third Joseph Gulston, Esq. M.P. F.S.A. Letters of Mr. Thomas Carte, the English Historian, to Mr. Memoirs of the Rev. Richard Gifford, B. A...... . . . Notices of the Rev. John and Rev. Thomas Alleyne.. 186, note. Fourteen Letters of the Rev. R. Gifford to Mr. Nichols 187-197 Memoir of the Rev. Archdeacon Strachey, LL. D. F. S. A... .... Three Letters of Mr. Smith to Mr. Routh. ibid. Six Letters between Roger Gale, Esq. and Mr. Routh Letter of John Seiferth, Esq. to Mr. Nichols.. of the Rev. William Adams, D. D.... Letter of the Rev. Dr. Parr, containing a character of Dr. Memoir of the Rev. Alexander Crowcher Schomberg Notice of Edward Forster, Esq...... Eight Letters of Mr. Forster to Mr. Gough Two Letters from Mr. Gough to Mr. Forster. |