ASSOCIATION PAPERS. PART I. PUBLICATIONS PRINTED BY SPECIAL ORDER OF THE SOCIETY FOR PRESERVING Quòd Urbem Incendiis, Cæde Gives, Italiam Bello liberâssent. CICERO IN CATILINAM, 3. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. SEWELL, IN CORNHILL; J. DEBRETT2, T. N. LONGMAN, PATERNOSTER-ROW ; 1793- THE PREF A CE. TH HE prefent Volume contains the feveral Papers that have been published by the ASSOCIATION at the CROWN AND ANCHOR in feparate Numbers. The occafion of thefe little Publications is in every one's remembrance; they have had their use for the time; and they are now collected into a volume, as a library-book for fuch as have any curiofity to preferve the productions of the day. When they were fold for a penny, they were defigned for a different clafs of readers and purchafers from thofe into whofe hands the prefent volume may chance to come. chance to come. Such as may condefcend to turn over this Collection fhould remember, that the times are happily changed fince the months of November and December laft; and we must travel back to that period of anxiety and public alarm, in order to feel the fentiments, and to relifh the style, of many of thefe papers. If any perfons should be fo fevere as to think all this aid from times and circumftances ought not to refcue fome of these performances from the fentence of criticism, neither the publishers nor authors will, we believe, feel much pain in configning them to fuch a 2 |