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Contents.
PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAP. I., CHAP. II., CHAP. III., CHAP. IV., CHAP. V., CHAP. VI.

Some typographical errors have been corrected;a list follows the text.

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DON SEBASTIAN;

OR,

THE HOUSE OF BRAGANZA.
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J. M‘CREERY, Printer,
Black-Horse-Court, Fleet-Street, London.
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DON SEBASTIAN;

OR,

THE HOUSE OF BRAGANZA.

AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.





BY MISS ANNA MARIA PORTER.

AUTHOR OF THE HUNGARIAN BROTHERS.

Take Physic, Pomp!
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
So shalt thou shake the superflux to them,
And shew the Heavens more just.
King Lear.

VOL. I.




LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME,
PATERNOSTER ROW.
———
1809.

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PREFACE.

THE name of Don Sebastian immediately recals to every historical reader,a character, which youth, faults, virtues, and misfortunes, haverendered highly interesting: I selected such a one for my Hero, from thewish of shewing how “sweet are the uses of adversity.”

If I may be so fortunate as to instruct and to amuse at the same time,the utmost of my literary ambition will be gratified.{vi}

It has been my aim to keep as close to historical records, as wasconsistent with a work wherein imagination is allowed to make up for thedeficiencies of actual tradition. In some places I have been obliged toantedate an event, and to mix other motives of action with such as wereavowed by the persons then acting on the great theatre of Europe; but Ihave scrupulously avoided slandering t

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