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reprenniez le Violon (the younger Pretender was a 

 good violoncello player, and fiddled his part in 

 Corelli's Notte di Natale, in the concerts at Rome) 

 qui est plus en usuage parmis les gens de qualite 

 en ce pays-ci que Le Clavecin : et votre Taille 

 est a present si bien forme qu'il n'y aura plus de 

 Danger de ce que nous apprendions autrefois. Et 

 puisque vous montez quelque fois a Cheval, Je ne 

 manqueray pas de vous envoyer un joli Bidet, pour 

 les vacances de 1'annee prochaine. 



" A Madame Madame Caryll, [a son hotel] dans la 

 rue de Cheval vert proche L'Estragade A Paris." 



This letter is written in the colossal handwriting 

 of an old gentleman, and has been partly burnt by 

 candle light. It doubtless took some time in its 

 composition. 



When the paragon was fourteen, his verses were 

 sent by the fond grandfather to Pope, who pronounced 

 them "extraordinary;" but added "I would rather 

 see him a good man than a good poet"* 



Before 1730, Lady Mary put off her widow's weeds, 

 and took for her second husband Sir Francis Sempill, 

 probably the same person as the Lord Sempell, who 

 was agent for the young Pretender at Paris, in 1745. 

 While she was in Paris, the poor Parson of Harting 

 had a sore grievance against her for making his 

 daughter a Roman Catholic. The cry that attends 

 the religious hawk or kite has often been heard before 

 and since ; but never without awakening sympathy. 

 We shall all therefore enter into the case of the poor 

 father of Mary Newlin, and share the sorrows of 

 an old home at the Vicarage. To understand the 

 following correspondence, it must be said that Parson 

 Newlin was appointed by the Squire's Trustee, one 

 Trevanion, to the living of Harting, and that Mary, 

 Newlin's daughter, "eleven years old," would be just 



* Pope to Caryll, No. 129. 



