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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. IV. FIRST COMMENCEMENT OF NOVEL-WRITING. TREMAtNE PUBLISHED BY COLBURN. REASONS FOR PRESERVING INCOGNITO.? LETTERS TO AND FROM MK. AND MRS. AUSTEN, ROBERT SOUT1IEY, TOE LATE DR. COPLESTON, BISHOP OF LLANDAFF, AND OTHERS. Odd Consequences Of His Incognito. Visits Mulgrave Castle Letters Thence To Mr. And Mrs, Austen Otheb Fashionable Novelists In The Field. Criticism On ViVian Grey. ? De Verb. Letters Thereon From CanNing, From An Anonymous Correspondent, And From B. D'israel1, Esq. The death of that beloved wife to whom he had been now united for upwards of a quarter of a century affected him deeply, and he began to think of retiring from active public life, in which he had been so long engaged during times of unexampled interest and excitement. He gave up his seat at the Board of Ordnance, and retired from Parliament after the session of 1823, being soon afterwards appointed Auditor of the Civil List. Before, however, he took leave of the House of Commons, he had occasion to make a reply to a vehement attack of Mr. Hume on the Ordnance Estimates, which called forth the following congratulatory letter from one of his oldest college friends. Sir Michael Shaw Stewart to R. Ward, Esq. Edinburgh, Feb. 26. 1823. My dear Ward, I have just been reading your admirable reply to Hume, and I feel an impulse that I cannot resist, to congratulate you on the complete drubbing which you so genteely gave him, and to express the satisfaction I experienced in the ample proofs which you so forcibly brought forward of the fair, honourable, and disinterested conduct of all the individuals concerned in the appointment he - so illiberally attacked. Nothing could be more effectually done; and, recollections of former times occurring, I really felt as if ...
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