BIOGRAPHICAL

DICTIONARY:

CONTAINING

A BRIEF ACCOUNT

OF THE

LIVES AND WRITINGS

OF THE MOST

Eminent Perlons

AND

Remarkable Characters

IN

EVERY AGE AND NATION.

By STEPHEN JONES.

THE FIFTH EDITION, ENLARGED:
With considerable Additions.

"No species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than BIOGRAPHY,
"since none can be more delightful or more useful, no can more certainly en-
"chain the heart by irresistible interest, or more widely diffuse instruction to
"every diversity of condition."

London:

RAMBLER.

Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt-court, Fleet-street,

FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME; J. WALLIS;

W. PEACOCK

AND SONS; J. HARRIS; SCATCHERD

LETTERMAN;

AND

J. WALKER.

VERNOR AND HOOD; AND

1805.

Fieb. 26.

Lanch.ct. Green, 36.2. of Barton. (H.6.1551)

PREFACE.

I CANNOT suffer a FIFTH EDITION of this Biography in Miniature to meet the public eye, without avowing the grateful sentiments that are impressed on my` mind by the very flattering manner in which the former Editions have been received and recommended.

While thus acknowledging my obligations to the Public for its candour, I cannot be unmindful of the liberality of numerous literary characters, and other gentlemen, by whose communications or hints I have from time to time been assisted to bring this little Compendium to its present compara

tive

state of correctness and authenticity:

the highest points at which such a work can

aim.

My thanks are particularly due to the

following gentlemen:

JOHN ROGERS, Esq. of Yarlington Lodge, near

Wincanton,

Somersetshire.

WILLIAM

BOSCAWEN,

THOMAS PARK, Esq.

Esq. the translator of Horace