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bious as the event may be, whether this knowledge may 
hereafter ever reach our ears. It is by no means improba¬ 
ble, if he has conducted himfelf well, that by this time he 
may have become a character of confiderable confequence : 
courage he poflefied in an eminent degree, a virtue held in 
high eftimation by the natives. Unfortunately, his lituation 
in life having denied him any advantage of education, he was 
unable either to write or read, otherwife his memoirs, fince 
the year 1783, well digefted, might, to all the inveftigators of 
'Ample nature, be infinitely more interefting than thofe of 
half the minifters and fiatefinen of Europe, who have only 
bequeathed to pofterity a remembrance of all thofe dark 
counfels, fecret devices, and profligate intrigues, which dif- 
Curbed the tranquillity of the age they lived in* 
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