Bath Characters

J.J. Hewlett

OR

SKETCHES FROM LIFE.

BY PETER PAUL PALLET.

"Let the gall'd jade wince,

Our withers are unwrung."

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR G. WILKIE AND J. ROBINSON,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1807.

PROOEMIUM.

GENTLE REAder.

We have discovered in our profound

literary researches, that in attacking folly and
vice, ridicule is oftentimes a more useful instru-
ment than grave reprehension:

Fortiùs et meliùs magnas plerumque secat res;

and that the lash of satire will penetrate to the
feelings of those whom the most serious remon-
strances would not put to the blush.

Frequent sojournments in Bath have con-
vinced us, there is no place within the dominions
of our liege Lord the King, which so much re-
quires the application of such a caustic, as this
populous city; where vanity reigns triumphant;
and folly, humbug, and imposture, carry their
heads too high to be reached by any other wea-
pon than the shaft of ridicule.

This conviction has induced us to volunteer our services in the cause, and prompted an en

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