POETICAL REGISTER, AND REPOSITORY · OF FUGITIVE POETRY, FOR 1805. LONDON: PRINTED FOR F. AND C. RIVINGTON, By Law and Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell. ADVERTISEMENT. THE Fifth Volume of the POETICAL REGISTER is now presented to the Public by the Editor, with his sincere thanks for the flattering reception which the former Volumes have experienced. His Correspondents also will, he trusts, accept his grateful acknowledgment of their kind assistance. To render the Work deserving of the support which it has received, every exertion in the power of the Editor has been made, and he flatters himself that his efforts have been crowned with success. Of the "Original Poetry" he will say nothing. He leaves it to speak for itself. In the department of "Fugitive Poetry" there will be found many pieces highly worthy of being preserved, which had become so scarce as not to be obtained without considerable difficulty. It is the Editor's intention to give a "local habitation" to every Fugitive Poem of merit which he can procure, and which has not already found a place in any collection of the same kind as his own. Unavoidable circumstances have delayed the publication of the present Volume to a later period than was intended. The Sixth Volume will, however, certainly appear in June. A considerable portion of it, nearly the whole of the Fugitive Poetry, is at this moment printed. The Editor, therefore, earnestly requests that his Correspondents will, as soon as possible, forward their contributions; addressed to him, under cover, to Messrs. Rivingtons. They will also please to mark" Fugitive" on such pieces as have appeared in print. To save Correspondents the trouble of sending to the Publishers for such Poems as are not approved of by the Editor, he begs leave to inform them that all rejected contributions are committed to the flames, |