OF

JOHNNY QUÆ GENUS

THE LITTLE FOUNDLING OF
THE LATE DOCTOR SYNTAX
A POEM BY THE AUTHOR OF
THE THREE TOURS

WITH TWENTY-FOUR

COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS
BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON

A NEW EDITION

NEW YORK

D. APPLETON & COMPANY

NOTE

THIS Issue is founded on the Edition published by R. Ackermann in the

year 1822

Reca talogued

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HISTORY

OF

QUÆ GENUS, ETC.

THE Favour which has been bestowed on the

different TOURS OF DOCTOR SYNTAX, has encouraged the Writer of them to give a HISTORY OF THE FOUNDLING, who has been thought an interesting Object in the latter of those Volumes; and it is written in the same style and manner, with a view to connect it with them.

This Child of Chance, it is presumed, is led through a track of Life not unsuited to the peculiarity of his Condition and Character, while its varieties, as in the former Works, are represented by the Pencil of MR. ROWLANDSON with its accustomed characteristic Felicity.

The Idea of an English GIL BLAS predominated through the whole of this Volume; which must be

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considered as fortunate in no common degree, if its readers, in the course of their perusal, should be disposed to acknowledge even a remote Similitude to the incomparable Work of Le Sage.

The AUTHOR.