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George Kearsley

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  1. A fifteen days' tour to Paris, containing [...] the origin and progress of the present revolution [...]. By an English gentleman of veracity, just returned. To which is added, by another hand, a faithful description of every part of that once dreadful engine of despotism, the Bastille, written originally in French, by one who was many years a miserable inhabitant publisher
  2. An abridgment of the history of England, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the death of George II has translation has other edition publisher
  3. A supplement to the Fifteen days’ trip to Paris, by another hand. Containing an accurate description of the Bastille, before its late demolition, and the manner of treating the prisoners. Translated from the French translation publisher
  4. Memoirs of the Bastille. Containing a full exposition of the mysterious policy and despotic oppression of the French government, in the interior administration of that state-prison. Interspersed with a variety of curious anecdotes. Translated from the French of the celebrated Mr. Linguet, who was imprisoned there from September 1780, to May 1782 translation has other edition publisher
  5. The Constitution of England, or an account of the English government, in which it is compared with the republican form. And occasionally with the other monarchies in Europe. By J.L. de Lolme translation has other edition publisher
  6. The livre rouge, or Red book, being a list of secret pensions, paid out of the public treasure of France, and containing characters of the persons pensioned, anecdotes of their lives, an account of their services and observations tending to shew the reasons for which the pensions were granted translation has paratext publisher

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Mainly based at 46 Fleet Street.

Son of a Dublin currier. He apprenticed to his great-uncle Jacob Robinson at 1 Ludgate Street, inheriting his business at Robinson's death in 1759. The original publisher of John Wilkes' periodical, the North Briton (1762–63), he was among those arrested on 30 April 1763 for issuing the notorious no.45 but never imprisoned, having implicated Wilkes and his collaborators. In 1764 he fled to France to escape imprisonment for debt. After his death in 1790 his business passed to his wife Catherine and then to his son George who continued until 1813.

For more on Kearsley, see the ONDB entry by Trevor Ross.