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Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Lord St. Helens to Samuel Rogers, 8 September 1830
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Preface
Vol. I Contents
Chapter I. 1803-1805.
Chapter II. 1805-1809.
Chapter III. 1810-1812.
Chapter IV. 1813-1814.
Chapter V. 1814-1815.
Chapter VI. 1815-1816.
Chapter VII. 1816-1818.
Chapter VIII. 1818-19.
Chapter IX. 1820-1821.
Chapter X. 1822-24.
Chapter XI. 1825-1827.
Vol. II Contents
Chapter I. 1828-1830.
Chapter II. 1831-34.
Chapter III. 1834-1837.
Chapter IV. 1838-41.
Chapter V. 1842-44.
Chapter VI. 1845-46.
Chapter VII. 1847-50.
Chapter VIII. 1850
Chapter IX. 1851.
Chapter X. 1852-55.
Index
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‘With many thanks, my dear Sir, for the accompanying volume.

‘“The “Chanson des Deux Cousins” is certainly excellent; besides the merit of being so wonderfully pro-

on one of his victims, and it led to his trial and conviction for manslaughter. At a later trial it came out that he was making 12,000l. a year by his illegal practice, but his victims were the rich, and in this second trial so many fashionable people gave evidence for him that he was acquitted. On his death, in 1834, the secret of his nostrum was sold for several thousand pounds.

48 ROGERS AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES  
phetical. And I should say that the next best are those dated from Ste. Pélagie; a proof that, whatever may be M. de Béranger’s passion for liberty, his Muse, on the contrary, is like
‘the imprisoned bird
Which makes the cage its quire and sings most sweetly
When most in bondage.

‘Yours ever very faithfully,
‘St. Helens.
Grafton Street: Wed., 8th Sept., 1830.’