THE

LIFE AND ADVENTURES

OF

PAUL PLAINTIVE, Esq.

An Author.

COMPILED FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS,

AND INTERSPERSED WITH

SPECIMENS OF HIS GENIUS,

IN PROSE AND POETRY.

BY MARTIN GRIBALDUS SWAMMERDAM,

(HIS NEPHEW And executor.)

"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors."

VOL. I.

JOHNSON.

LONDON:

Printed by W. Flint, Old Bailey;

FOR SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1811.

249.5.469.

DEDICATION.

To WILLIAM MUDFORD.

DEAR SIR,

I HAVE a peculiar pleasure in dedicating the following pages to you, because I know how much you have interested yourself in the progress of their composition, and how anxious you are that their success with the public may be equal to your wishes.

But you have, also, another claim to