THE PROJECTOR; COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, IN THE MANNER OF THE SPECTATOR, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MONTHLY, From Jan, 1802 to Nov. 1809. BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS, F. S. A. Third Edition, Revised and Corrected. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1817. W. WILSON, Printer, 4, Greville-Street, Hatton-Garden, London. Lover 7-13-45 52468 THE following papers are part of the stock in trade of a PROJECTOR, who is about to retire from business. They have been on view for some years in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, and are now offered for sale. While on view, the Proprietor was encouraged by many flattering requests to produce them in their present form; but whether these requests have led him into a mistake of which he will have cause to repent, or whether his compliance will be justified by an increased demand, are circumstances on which he cannot speculate. In their present state, they are not precisely what they were when first exhibited. While viewed in conjunction with articles of perhaps equal or greater importance, it was not for him to determine the exact share of |