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Excerpt from The Annual Necrology, for 1797-8, Vol. 1: Including, Also, Various Articles of Neglected Biography In fine, a proper vehicle has hitherto been wanting: for the mod: obvious and important occurrences, if not communicated while yet recent, foon become either obliterated by time, or ob fcured by tradition, and leave only a few mutilated facts, or on conneaed fi'agments, for the information of the future narrator, and the regret of pofierity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.