CHARLES JOHNSTONE BIOGRAPHY
CHARLES JOHNSTONE BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
JOHNSTONE, CHARLES (1719?-1800). —Novelist. Prevented by deafness from practising at the Irish Bar, he went to India, where he was proprietor of a newspaper. He wrote one successful book, Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea , a somewhat sombre satire, and some others now utterly forgotten.