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port the old name. Jussieu has written me a long 

 friendly letter, and entreats me to make not only 

 his compliments, but his excuses also to you for not 

 writing to you as he wished. 



Yours most sincerely, 



Joseph Correa de Serra. 



Thus was his desire established; and still may each 

 returning season perpetuate the memoryof the friend 

 who conferred and the friend who accepted so beau- 

 tiful a memorial ! In the world he had tribulation ; 

 and whether real or ideal, the Abbe's sufferings excite 

 our tenderest compassion, as he again appears under 

 the influence of a power armed with most direful 

 means of inflicting terror and despair. 



From the same. 



My dear Friend, London, Sept. 16, 1801. 



When your letter of the 8th instant reached Lon- 

 don I was in Birmingham, and this is my good ex- 

 cuse for not sending a prompt answer. The descrip- 

 tion I had made of the Doryanthes I had long been 

 at a loss to find again ; but to satisfy you, I have 

 written it again in fewer words, and you will find it 

 here inclosed, together with the two plates already 

 engraved for it. 



About my Excellency and my diplomacy I cannot 

 tell you ; but there was no unluckier fatality than, 

 after being six years out of Portugal in peace, to fall 

 again in the clutches of the same family who had 

 driven me from my country, after having brought 



