OR, THE

ADVENTURES OF A GENTLEMAN.

"Je suis peu sévère, mais sage-
Philosophe, mais amoureux-

"Mon art est de me rendre heureux,
"J'y réussis-en faut-il davantage?"

"A complete gentleman, who, according to Sir Fopling, ought
to dress well, dance well, fence well, have a genius for love letters,
and an agreeable voice for a chamber."

SECOND EDITION.

ETHEREGE.

In the Press,

BY THE AUTHOR OF "PELHAM,"

THE DISOWNED.

A NOVEL.

LONDON:

SHACKELL AND BAYLIS, JOHNSON'S-COURT, FLEET-STREET.

PREFACE

TO THE

SECOND EDITION OF PELHAM.

I BELIEVE if we were to question every author upon the subject of his literary grievances, we should find that the most frequent of all complaints, was less that of being unappreciated, than that of being misunderstood. None of us write perhaps without some secret object, for which, the world cares not a straw: and while each reader fixes his peculiar moral upon a book, no one, by any chance, hits upon that which the author had in his own heart designed to inculcate. It is this impression, in my individual case, that calls forth for the pre