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Title: The Scourge : or, Monthly expositor of imposture and folly
Year: 1811 (1810s)
Authors: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Subjects: English literature
Publisher: London : Printed by W.N. Jones for M. Jones
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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Treaty of Fontainbleau 450 Privileges of royalty 451 Differences betweeu right and expediency ., ., 452 Foundation of public law 453 The system of Buonaparte 454 Effects of that system 455 Dispositions of the French army 456Character of William III....... 457 MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT 458The PLAYFUL PHILOSO. PHER 459 to 470 POLITICAL REVIEW..471 to 477THEATRICAL REVIEW 47g TO CORRESPONDENTS. The papers respecting Miss Hannah More, the methodist,and the Blagdon controversy, will demand our attentive consi-deration, and shall be published or returned, as we may feel itexpedient to decide. Political Epitaphs are unavoidably postponed, inconsequenceof important matter received at an early period of the month. We shall enter into a Keen enquiry, as far as propriety willadmit, respecting the circumstances connected with the lateextraordinary discovery in the dressing-room of the figurantes.We hope that the recovery of Miss S. has been accompanied bydecisive proofs of the gentlemans generosity*
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PR KFA R FM& for THE SCOURGE. JUNE, 1815. Mrs. WILMOTs NEW PLAY, INA. The critic who has been accustomed to weep over thesorrows of Belvidera, or to sympathize in the misfortune*and miseries of Lear, will feel peculiar gratitude to Mrs.Wilmot, and willingly admit that Ina is the most de-lightful of all possible tragedies. The painful images ofterror, pity, and anxiety, by which the ancient mastersimpressed the feelings, and awoke the passions of theirauditors, are forbidden to approach the more polishedscene of Mrs. Wilmots dramatic exhibition. Her cha-racters tread the stage, from the first act to the last, witha graceful insipidity that neither moistens a single eye,nor bedews a singie handkerchief. Instead of the pain-ful sensations of grief, detestation, or astonishment, wefeel in the calm and unobtrusive progress of the repre-sentation the most cool and comfortable emotions. Sosingular is the skill of the fair authoress, and so profoundher acquaintance with human nature, that

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