Transcriber’s Note:

This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations, inconsistent hyphenation, or non-standard use of apostrophes. These have been left unchanged unless indicated below.

Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, unprinted or partially printed letters, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate letters at line endings or page breaks were removed. Numbers 11. and 12. were added to [Les Commandements de la Presse].

Unprinted diacriticals were added to words in languages other than English. The use of quotation marks is not standard, and generally was not changed unless needed for clarity. Extraneous punctuation was deleted.

Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the book. There are two anchors for Footnote [ [47]. Anchors for [ [286] and [ [322] were unprinted; anchors were added where they may belong.

The [St. James’s Street ballad] and its parody are presented in sequence, not side by side.

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