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and family, all of whom were discon- 
verted at the liberties, which at differ- 
ent times they had taken with so im- 
portant a person. In the evening Mr. 
Onslow came as usual, with his holiday 
face and manners, and prepared to take 
his usual seat, but found every thing in 
a state of peculiar preparation, and the 
manners of the landlord and his wife 
changed from indifference and fami- 
liarity to form and obsequiousness. 
The children were not allowed to climb 
upon him, and pull his wig, as hereto- 
fore, and the servants were kept at a 
distance. He, however, tuok no notice 
of the change, but finding that his 
name and rank had by some means 
been discovered, he paid the réckoning, 
civilly took his departure, and never 
visited the house afterwards. 
THE REV. LOUIS DUTENS. 
The following ill-natured character 
of this gentleman was found in MS. 
among the papers of a political cha- 
racter deceased, in a hand not un- 
like that of the author of Junius. Mr. 
Dutens was a French protestant, but by 
the interest of the Bute and Percy fa- 
milies, obtained two livings in the 
Church of England, His memoirs, 
which are hefore the public, prove, how- 
ever, that he was an amiable man, and 
4 know him tobe so, but, from his con- 
nections, he was the butt of party ran- 
‘cour. 
“« It is impossible to prevent the 
French nation having every informa- 
tion from this country which they de- 
sire to have, while a nafive of France 
is here under the habit of a protestant 
priest, whose connections are such at 
Charing Cross House, and, indeed, with 
‘half the first people in this kingdom, 
‘that there is not a plan laid nor even 
talked of, that this deceptfull fellow 
«loes not come at,and of which he is no 
‘sooner informed, than he shows some 
dadies of fashion a few Paris trinkets, 
cand if any one happens to express a de- 
‘sire to have any thing from that city of 
monsense, he immediately sends a spe- 
cial ape ee over for it, and a private 
message and information for his French 
friend and patron the Duke de Choiseul, 
not by Jetter (the rascal is too cunning), 
but he has messengers always in wait- 
ing, who can carry a lip-letter, tres 
‘comme il faut. Is not this a national 
shame! and not only so, but this mon- 
grel religioned fellow has places, pre- 
ferment, &c. in this kingdom, to the 
amount of several hundred pounds a- 
year. One of his duke-like friends on 
Stephensiana.—No. V. 
[Jan. 1, 
this side of the water, says he is clever; 
I don’t know that his Grace is a judge 
of cleverness, but if that be true, so'much 
the worse for poor England; and _ per- 
haps his French Duke thinks so too. But 
is this areason why such aspy should 
live among us? His father, mother, 
and all his family, are at this instant 
Bourgeois of Paris, all good papists, 
while their favorite son is a protestant 
priest, and the Josom friend to a protes- 
tant English D—e. Is this the way, 
then, for our nation to be successful ? 
or for the first of the K *s F——ds to 
shew his regard ?” 
SARAH, DUCHESS 0f MARLBOROUGH. 
The following letters are highly cha- 
acteristic of the masculine and in- 
triguing spirit of this woman, even at 
the verge of fourscore. The originals 
are written in the clear, firm hand of 
the age of thirty. 
Marlborough House, Sept. 14th, 1732. 
I gave you the trouble of sending you 
a great many facts, which are known 
by all the world to be true, and I own, 
I did hope they would have made some 
impression upon you : but by your let- 
ter I find you don’t think any of them 
are worth taking the least notice of. 
And you appear to me to be under the 
same influence, which you have been 
from the beginning of all these mon- 
strous things that have happened : who 
are your counsellors, I ean’t say, but it 
must be from your own judgment that 
you are determin’d, whoever they are. 
I can only guess, that the tiger, Lady 
Bateman, is one; because I know that 
what you say of my not liking it, if you 
had done otherwise, is very near her 
words. For she writ to your sister 
Russell, that even I would like her the 
better, if she came to celebrate the wed- 
ding, or to that purpose. You'll tell 
me that you love me; but I can’t see 
in what it has appear’d, and after I have 
demonstrated to you, both of my kind- 
ness to you and my ill-treatment, your 
letter is writ with as much caution as 
if it were to anenemy. And all you 
can bring yourself to say, is, that taking 
any body's part against me is the furthest 
thing from your thoughts ; which is the 
same thing that you have said always 
upon my subject, that you wou’d not 
enter into the matter, with more heart, 
and a little softer expressed ; and lam 
apt to believe, that if I were only an 
insignificant grandmother, you woud 
not think it were very deceut to take 
any body’s part against me, who are so 
scrupulous even when there is no aE3', 
an 
