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Excerpt from Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc "On the verso of the card are some memoranda of money matters, and the date 'ye 21rst March, 1751.' "The letter now to be given contains neither date nor signature; but I think the name of the writer (evidently a Scotchman) will be ascertained from a comparison of the writing and with other papers of the same period. The date is approximately determinable as 1769 or 1770, from the references to the death of the Chevalier de St. George (the Old Pretender) and to the flight of Miss Walkinshaw with their child. The proposal to repudiate the National Debt is very curious and amusing: - "It was most certainly a very great affront and Injury done to the Prince to carry from him his Daughter, that behoved to be a fine amusement to Him in his solitary way of liveing, while still expecting better Times. "When He Discovers Him that acted it, or had a share in the Crime, He or they should be punised, tho' with much goodness, to imitate our great Creator. In the meantime it should not be resented to His own Disadvantage, or that of his most sincere Weal Wishers, but a proper time waited when it can be done more effectualy. If his Majesty had any share in it, It can be imputed to nothing else than a wrong principle in his Religion, and ought therefore to be heartyly forgiven, and a good Understanding fully reestablish'd. It must be a great Loss to His Royal Highness and all true subjects to have the intercourse betwixt Him and them intirely cutt off by his Resolution of so strict a Retirement which they most earnestly wish and beg He would change to their Vast Comfort; and it is the greatest Glory of a man to forgive ane Injury. I hear'd more than three years ago, That the Prince (upon the King's Death) was resolved to goe to Rome, of which I took no notice, haveing hear'd long before, That he said That He would never return to Rome. It is most earnestly Wished That He would be
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Excerpt from Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc
An Enquiry into the Nature and Virtue of the Medi cinal Waters of Bristol, and their Use in the Cure of Chronical Distempers. London. 8yo.
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