POLITICAL ESSAYS,

WITH

Sketches of Public Characters.

BY

WILLIAM HAZLITT.

"Come, draw the curtain, shew the picture."

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM HONE,

45, LUDGATE HILL.

1819.

J. M'Creery, Printer, Black-Horse-Court, London.

Brougham, Esq. M. P.

On the late War

Prince Maurice's Parrot

Whether the Friends of Freedom can entertain any sanguine

hopes of the Favorable Results of the ensuing Congress

The Lay of the Laureate

Mr. Owen's "New View of Society," &c.

Speeches of Charles C. Western, Esq. M. P. and Henry

Mr. Coleridge's Lay Sermon

Statesman's Manual

65

71

74

82, 89

97

Illustrations of the Times Newspaper

Mr. Macirone's "Interesting Facts relating to the Fa.. and

Death of Joachim Murat, King of Naples."

Wat Tyler and the Quarterly Review

141, 149, 159

169, 178

190

The Courier and Wat Tyler

200