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From the fame to the fame. ° 
(Tranflation.) Venice, Fan. 4, 1800. 
66 MOST WORTHY AND ESTEEMED 
SIR, 
APPRISED by your much-efteemed 
letter of the 15th of November, I re- 
ceived a fecond trom you of the 22d, and 
after that, the lait, dated the 26th of the 
fame month, with the joyful intelligence of 
the fpeedy and extraordinary fuccour your 
generous Minifters have been pleafed, 
through me, to tranfmit to the eminent 
Perfonage, who, truly fenfible of the deli- 
cacy and liberality of your nation, has ex- 
prefsly and repeatedly directed me to re- 
turn to you, and by your means to your 
noble-minded co-operators, his moft ex- 
prefive and cordia] thanks. I have been 
obliged to make over to Signor Corrado 
Martens the order of Meffrs. Rantom 
and Morland for the five hundred pounds, 
as the necefiity of the Perfonage required 
it. wy 
I am not capable of explaining the fatis- 
fa&tion the illuftrious Perfonage has. ex- 
prefled to me, for the certainty of the an- 
nuity you inform me will be fettled on him, 
in order to relieve him effectually from, 
the diftreffes into which he has been plun- 
ged by his laft misfortunes; for which rea~ 
fon he feels all the weight of the obliga- 
tion he has to you, as the efficacious and 
friendly promoter of it, and to your great 
Minifters for this magnificent annuity. 
I am here fhut up in conclave for the 
election of a new Pope, with thirty-four 
Cardinals, who, being appriled of the ge- 
Merofity of your nation in favour of their 
iluftrious -colleague, are unanimous in 
applauding that moft noble act, and extol- 
Jing all the co-operators in it. 
‘I am greatly obliged to the worthy Mr. 
Stuart for his remembrance of me, and for 
the gracious offer he makes me of his Hif- 
tory of the Royal Houfe of Stuart. That 
/book will be a fine ornament to my library, 
which, with my muleum, I have almoit 
entirely faved trom the general depreda- 
tion. I fhall keep it in remembrance ; 
but, however, I beg of you to prefent my 
mofi affectionate thanks to him, as I do to 
the fir and efficacious promoter of fo 
many gracious acts, not only in my own 
name, but in that of the diftinguiflied Per- 
fonage whom you have fo much obliged. 
—I am, with the trueft and moft cordial 
efieem, ; 
Your fincere friend and fervant, 
S. CaRDINAL Boraia.” 
Correfpondence relative-to the Cardinal of York. 
[Oo a, Ts 
The fame to the fame. 
(Tranflation.) Venice, Feb. 26, 1800. 
MOST WORTHY SIR, 
I HAVE received from Signor Corrade 
Martens, at the fame time, four of your 
moft efleemed letters, that is to fay, two 
of the 3d and 16th of December 1799, a 
duplicate of the latter, and the fourth of 
the 28th of Jat January. The day after 
the arrival of thefe letters, which gave the 
highett fatisfaétion to my iNuftrious col- 
league, an Englifh gentleman entered the 
conclave, who was the bearer of a very po- 
lite letter from Lord Minto, affuring him 
of the royal munificence to the extent of 
two thoufand pounds fterling, which is ta 
be repeated to his order, fix months after, 
in the fame proportion. 
Tam unable to relate to you the praifes 
given by all their Eminences affembled 
here, to the royal benevolence, and to the 
Englith nation ; and in this applaufe the 
names of thofe who affifted in promoting 
it, re-echoed ; and efpecially that of my 
friend, Sir John Hippifley, the principal 
mover of fq, good an action. © 
Thefe fentiments of gratitude, more 
particularly to you and Mr. Stuart, may 
be known by the letter which my illuftri- 
ous colleague addreiles to you: what my ~ 
own feelings are I refrain from expreffing ; 
Ireferve them in my breaft, and fhall ma- 
nifeft them whenever a fortunate opportu- 
nity may occur to me. 
My other colleagues, whom you have 
complimented through me, defire me to 
return you their molt expreflive regards, - 
and particularly Cardinal Antonelli, whe 
told me he had received your letters. 
I am, with the mott true and cordial 
efteem, 
Your fincere friend and fervant, - 
S. CaRDINAL Borcia.” 
The Cardinal of York to Sir F.C. Hippifiey. 
Written in the Conclave. 
Original.) , 
«* YOUR letters fully convince me of 
the cordial intereft you take in all that re- 
gards my perfon, and Iam happy to ac- 
knowledge,that principally I owe to your 
friendly efforts, and to them of your 
friends, the {uccour generoufly granted, to 
relieve the extreme neceffities into which I 
have been driven by the prefene difmal 
circumftances. I cannot fufficiently ex-_ 
prefs how fenfibie I am to your good 
heart ; and write tiefe few lines in the’ 
firft place to conte to you thele my moit 
. fiicere 
