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A gentleman of your name is come over; he has 

 brought several valuable things he purchased at the 

 Duchess of Portland's sale ; he told me he laid out 

 there upwards of two thousand pounds. Perhaps 

 you may know who he is ? 



A friend at Liverpool is to lend me Lorenzo de' 

 Medici : I wish much to read, since you recom- 

 mend it. 



Yours ever, 



A. Caldwell. 



From the same. 



My dear Friend, Dublin, Jan. 6, 1797. 



You might accuse me of the spirit of retaliation, 

 but I believe you think better of me than to suppose 

 such a motive. The influence of procrastination is 

 too powerful, and I fear I am as little able to resist 

 as those who are much my superiors. 



There was a momentary feeling of regret at finding 

 you intended to remove, — an involuntary impulse 

 towards self; but I soon coincided with your ideas, 

 and allowed that you judged right. — How things 

 come about ! My station is so distant from Nor- 

 wich, it is one of the last places I could have thought 

 of. I now think myself connected there. 



Let me now give you my own history. The 

 months of June and July being incessant rain, al- 

 most confined me to the house; August clearing up 

 and promising well, the knight sallied forth. The 

 first excursion was to a place called Ross Trevor, 

 situated on Carlingford Bay, a high hill with oak- 



