His tears redoubled: and the warder, as he opener the gate and dosed it after him, implored permission to kiss the hand of the noble Count. Sobieski, bupre he turned his back to Poland, never to return.

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LONDON.

1831.

STREET.

AND ILLUSTRATED WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION, NOTES, ETC.

BY THE AUTHOR.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET:

BELL AND bradfute, EDINBURGH;

AND CUMMING, DUBLIN.

CRITIQUES ON THIS WORK.

"Miss Porter has availed herself of a very interesting period in history for the foundation of her tale. Often have we felt our heart rent by indignation and pity, at the dismemberment of Poland and the cruel fate of Stanislaus. Truth and fiction are blended with much propriety in these Volumes; and we have turned with sincere pleasure to the pages that praise the valour of Kosciuszko; and recount, though but as a novel, the adventures of Sobieski.”. Critical Review, Sept. 1803.

"Thaddeus is a work of genius, and has nothing to fear at the candid bar of taste: he has to receive the precious meed of sympathy from every reader of unsophisticated sentiment and genuine feeling."— Imperial Review, Feb. 1804.

THE AUTHOR

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HER FRIENDLY READERS.

Written for the New Edition of " Thaddeus of Warsaw," forming one of the Series called "The Standard Novels."

To such readers alone, who, by the sympathy of a social taste, fall in with any blameless fashion of the day, ́and, from an amiable interest also in whatever may chance to afford them innocent pleasure, would fain know something more about an author whose works have brought them that gratification, than the cold letter of a mere literary preface usually tells; to such readers this something of an egotistical-epistle is 'addressed.

For, in beginning the republication of a regular series of the novels, or, as they have been more properly called, biographical romances, of which I have been the author, it has been considered desirable to make certain additions to each work, in the form of a few introductory pages and scattered notes, illustrative of the origin of the tale, of the historical events referred to in it, and of the actually living characters who constitute its personages, with some account also of the really local scenery described; thus giving, it is thought, a