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RNYG.778.050
10 Jun 1778:44 (178)
The Diaboliad, and the First of April, two satires upon many
of the fashionable bon ton personages of Great-Britain and
Ireland; in the former of these pieces, the throne of hell,
vacated by the Old Foul Fiend, is filled by the most
libidinous and rapacious personage in his Majesty's
dominions, to whom it is dedicated. Besides the successful
hero, many other candidates for that exalted station, long
made remarkable by their public and private vices, are
introduced into the work, which is attributed to Mr.
Coombes, a writer pronounced equal to Paul Whitehead or
Charles Churchill, in literary fame.
In his First of April, the Ladies who compose the present
Court of Beauty, are freely described and characterized, and
their follies severely reprehended.
An Election Ball, in letters from Mr. Inkle at Bath, to
his wife at Gloucester; a pleasant production of the much
esteemed Mr. Ansty, author of the Bath Guide, than whom,
none has appeared equally delectable in this class of
writers, since the days of Master Matthew Prior.
The Englishman's Fortnight at Paris, or the art of ruining
himself there in a few days, said to be written by a Mr.
Rutledge, who really there dissipated twelve thousand pounds
in that short space. A piece full of amusing incidents, and
displaying the knavery of many of the most notorious
characters of the age.
The Pupil of Pleasure, by Courtney Melmoth, in 2 vols. a
novel, replete with incident and terminating in a most
pathetic catastrophe, it is much read, and has lately passed
through many editions.
A Monstrous Good Lounge, addressed to the first man who
purchases the book, together with Yorick's Skull, or College
Yawnings, with a specimen of the Shandean stile.
Letters from Mr. Washington to his wife, his son-in-law,
and Mr. Lund Washington, in which are set forth a fairer and
fuller view of American politicks, than ever transpired, or
the public could be made acquainted with through any other
channel, together with the Revd. Mr. Jacob Duche's (late
Chaplain to the Continental Congress) letters to Mr.
Washington, entreating him to relinquish his command, and an
answer to Mr. Duche, by Mr. John Parks, now a Lieutenant
Colonel in Mr. Washington's army.
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