Excerpt from Tom Raw, the Griffin: A Burlesque Poem, in Twelve Cantos, Illustrated by Twenty-Five Engravings, Descriptive of the Adventures of a Cadet, in the East India Company's Service, From the Period of His Quitting England to His Obtaining a Staff Situation in India

Griffin to appear In print? To be perused by all the world, perhaps translated into the European, , and, for aught We know, into the Hindostany, Persian, and Bengalie languages But our vanity was tickled, wh'ose would not 'have been? By such suggestions, and we consented, not without those gentle tremors and palpitations which always fill the bosoms of inexperienced authors.

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