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TRAVELS IN ENGLAND

BY

Lewis Simone

A NATIVE OF FRANCE.

JOURNAL

OF A

TOUR AND RESIDENCE

IN

Great Britain,

DURING THE YEARS 1810 AND 1811,

BY

A FRENCH TRAVELLER.

WITH

REMARKS

ON

THE COUNTRY, ITS ARTS, LITERATURE, AND POLITICS,
AND ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF

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PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR; AND FOR SALE BY
EASTBURN KIRK AND CO. AND THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT
THE UNITED STATES.

T. & W. Mercein, Printers.

.........

1815.

DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK, SS.

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twentieth day of December, in the thirty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, James Eastburn, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words and figures following, to wit:

Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, during the years 1810 and 1811, by a French Traveller. With Remarks on the country, its arts, literature, and politics, and on the manners and customs of its inhabitants.

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled "an Act, supplementary to an Act entitled an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

THERON RUDD,

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NOTICE.

THIS Journal was originally written in English,

nearly as it now appears; but being intended chiefly for the benefit of my countrymen, it was prepared for publication in French; when it was suggested to me, that, as it could not at that time be printed on the Continent, if it had any success at all in England, it would be translated immediately, and, in all likelihood, very wretchedly, and that I had better undertake the task myself, having, in fact, the materials ready. I now, therefore, venture to give the original English Journal, such as it was written at the mo

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