Don Sebastian

DON SEBASTIAN; OR, THE HOUSE OF BRAGANZA.
J. M‘CREERY, Printer, Black-Horse-Court, Fleet-Street, London.
AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. IN FOUR VOLUMES.
BY MISS ANNA MARIA PORTER. AUTHOR OF THE HUNGARIAN BROTHERS.
Take Physic, Pomp! Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, So shalt thou shake the superflux to them, And shew the Heavens more just. King Lear.
VOL. I.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER ROW. ——— 1809.


THE name of Don Sebastian immediately recals to every historical reader, a character, which youth, faults, virtues, and misfortunes, have rendered highly interesting: I selected such a one for my Hero, from the wish of shewing how “sweet are the uses of adversity.”