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The Works of the Right Honourable John Hookham Frere in Verse and Prose (1); Memoirs | by the Right Hon. Sir Bartle Frere
The Works of the Right Honourable John Hookham Frere in Verse and Prose Memoirs by the Right Hon Sir Bartle Frere - 1 Author:Aristophanes Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Original Publisher: Basil Montagu Pickering Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Book... more »s.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ADDITIONAL NOTES. Page 41. -- Through the kindness of Mr. Fuller Maitland, of Stansted, Herts, I have had an opportunity of examining his copy of the original numbers of the "Anti-Jacobin," which appears to have belonged to Mr. Canning, and bears numerous marginal notes in his own handwriting relative to the authorship of most of the pieces which were written by him and Geo. Ellis. The only other writers noted are Macdonald (one article), Lord Liverpool (two articles), Lord Grenville (who is noted as the author of letters signed " Detector," Nos. 18 and 31, of March 26th and July 2nd ; an article on the Treaty of Pavia, in No. 14, of I2th February, 1798), and Pitt, who is noted as the author of the articles on Finance, in Nos. 2 and 3, of the 27th and 3oth November, 1797; Nos. 10 and 12, of 15th and 29th January, 1798; No. 25, of April 3oth ; and the Review of the Session, in No. 35, of July 2nd. The fact of Pitt having contributed these six articles, one of them in the penultimate number of the Journal, seems established by the testimony of this copy. Page 85,1. 17. Vide Alison. -- It is strange that Robertson himself does not record this incident in the interview, but merely mentions that he recalled to Romana's mind the first occasion on which Mr. Frere had dined with him at Toledo, and a picture that he had seen there, and that he then showed Romana a small fragment of Mr. Frere's handwriting, which convinced Romana of his claim to be relied on videus, "Narrative of a Secret Mission to the Danish Islands in 1808." London, 1863, page 65]. INDE...« less