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execute an order whicli his family had fo- 

 liated and obtained for tranfporling his 

 brother to Madagafcar, on account of his 

 profligacy, was fo imprudent as to cntrufl: 

 hinifelfs at Nantz, to one of thofe officious 

 men who have the perfidious talent of in- 

 fpiring ftrangers with confidence, and of 

 profiting by their fimpHcitj. This wretch 

 thought It a harmlefs joke to kidnap the 

 coHnfellor, in the room of his brother, whom 

 he fuffered to efcape, and by this double 

 fraud he firlpped both of them of their 

 money. 



It would appear as if Providence had 

 thought proper to inflid this cruel puniih- 

 ment upon the lawyer, in order to fhew, 

 that men ought never t'o depart from a ftrid: 

 obfervance of the rules of juflice, even when 

 their motive is laudable, and when, by doing 

 fo, advantages are likely to refult to the per- 

 fon whom they wiih to amend. 



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