An answer to the calumnious misrepresentations of the "Quarterly Review", the "British Critic", and the "Edinburgh Review," contained in their observations on Sir N. William Wraxall's Historical memoirs of his own time. /
Wraxall, Nathaniel,Sir,1751-1831.
London: : Printed for T. Cadell  and W. Davies, Strand; by J. M'Creery, Black-Horse-Court.,
1815.
Wraxall's two-volume "Historical memoirs of his own time", first published in 1815 was a great success: the first edition of 1,000 copies sold out in five weeks. However, the printing of a second edition was interrupted when Wraxall found himself accused of libel by the former Russian ambassador in London, Count Vorontsov, for suggesting in the Memoirs that the count had related how Catherine the Great had been responsible for the death of the princess of Württemburg. Wraxall was found guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment and a fine of £500 ... "The literary  journals of the day were unanimous in their disapproval, the Quarterly Review denouncing the Historical Memoirs as 'pompous gossip and inflated trash' (April 1815, p. 213), the British Critic attacking their 'outrageous and unnecessary indecency' (July 1815, p. 24), and the Edinburgh Review condemning their 'union of nastiness and obscenity' (June 1815, p. 190) while nevertheless printing lengthy excerpts (DNB). The present pamphlet is Wraxall's response to his critics.
Wraxall, Nathaniel, Sir, 1751-1831.
England London.