PREFACE. THE Miscellanies in prose and verse here put together are for the most part unconnected in subject or in period; but all of them appear to me worthy of permanent record. As their Editor, my wish has been to reduce my own share in them to the narrowest possible limits, and to insert only such letters or parts of letters from myself as might seem necessary for the elucidation of the rest. January, 1863. S. Note.-One supplementary letter from Mr. Pitt to the Duke of Rutland, a few also to Lord Harrowby, and one from Lord Harrowby to Earl Talbot, have been added in the Second Edition. They are likewise published in a separate form, so as to admit of being joined to the earlier copies. B 2 |