Devonshire Adventurer,

CONDUCTED

BY

BY

The Rev. George John Freeman, L. L. B.

Price Eighteen Pence.

Tavistock :

PRINTED BY JAMES CHAVE, HIGHER BACK-STREET.
And Sold by Messrs. Trewman and Woolmer, Booksollers,
Exeter : by Poole, Taunton ; Haydon and Nettleton,

Plymouth; Syle, Barnstaple; Fowler, Torring-
. ton ; Martin, Launceston ; Liddle, Bodmin,

and by White, Cochrane, and Co. Fleet
Street, and Murray, Albemarle-

Street, London.

THE

THE ENLIGHTENED PUBLIC

of the COUNTY OF DEVON, This, and all succeeding Numbers

of the Devonshire Adventurer,

PREFACE was formerly considered one of the chief A labours of an Author, who on that account often procured some learned friend to write it for him. I shall however spare myself pains on this occasion. The literary diffidence of a man caught in the very act of publishing must be somewhat questionable ; and any attempt to palliate a manifest presumption appears to me in the light of insin

la---indood ann a mon molo. in.

ERR ATA.

P. 17. After · Pella's ' adde bard.
P. 19. For from 'lege form.
P. 28. For thus' lege this.

For 'statment' lege statement.

For 'topies ' lege topics.
The only excuse we can offer for the errors of the press in

Vo. 1. is bij pledging ourselves to be correct in future,

Sian use liicrciOre 110 ToucYcu scuuuuw VU TUVUMILIVIM work, but whether censure arms or withdraws her sting, I shall appeal directly to the feelings of my Readers, and throw myself on the generosity of that Public whom I have invoked.

A Local Periodical Work is a medium, which may be en ployed to spread useful intelligence, or to diffuse speculative knowledge. It offers a channel, by which any literary productions of merit, whether pertaining to religion, or

morals