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*• EngliQi Lady, he took pains to inform himfelf 

 ** whether fueh a perfon exifted, and employed the 

 " methods which prudence didated, to have the 

 " letter fafely conveyed to her. The hufband of 

 '* that Lady, a man of letters well known in hi$ 

 ** own country, by feveral valuable hterary pro-; 

 *' dudlions, has juft written in return ; and after 

 ** exprefllng his gratitude to the Judge, in very 

 " flrong terms, informs him that the letter in quef- 

 " tion was from a brother of his wife's, on his way 

 *' to India. He wilhed to communicate to his 

 ** fifter fome intelligence refpeding himfelf. A 

 *' veflel which he had feen in the Bay of Bifcay, 

 ** and which feemed to be proceeding for England, 

 ** had fuggefted the idea of it. He was in hopes 

 ** that it might be in his power to get his letter put 

 *' on board of her, but (he having altered her 

 " courfe, the thought fl^ruck him of putting it 

 ** into a bottle, and of throwing it into the Sea." - 



At length, the journals *, by good fortune, flep 

 in to fupport my theory. 



In 



* While this advertiferaent was printing, the Journal of Paris 

 publifhed, without my knowledge, an extiaft of my letter to the 

 Editor of the General Journal of France, in anfwer to my anony- 

 mou? Critic. This inftance of candor difcovers, on the part of 

 the Compilers, a much higher degree of impartiality with refpeft 

 to me, than I fuppofed. It is worthy of men of letters who pof- 

 fefs an influence over the public opinion, and who do not wifh 



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