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G.Byrnest

Richard Nash Esq.

Original painted by M. Hoare, and

presented to the Corporation of the City of Bath.

VORA TOVOR RAN

THE following memoir is

neither calculated to enflame the reader's paffions with descriptions of gallantry, nor to gratify his malevolence with details of fcandal. The amours of coxcombs, and the pursuits of debauchees, are as deftitute of novelty to attract us as they are of variety to entertain, they still present us but the fame picture, a picture we have seen a thousand times repeated. The life of Mr. Nah is incapable of supplying any entertainment of this nature to a prurient curiofity. Tho it was paft in the very midfts of debauchery, he practifed but few of thofe ves he was often obliged to affent to. Tho' he lived where gallantry was the capital pursuit, A 2 he