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 A T T E R B U R Y. ccivetl the King's pardon, was arrived at the fame place on his return to England, he faid, with an air of pleafamry, " Then I am~ exchanged !" and it was, in the opinion of Mr. Pope on the fame occafion, * a fign of the nation's ' litenefs, when it could not regain one great man, but at " the exper.ce uf r.nr,th,r." But the feverity of his treat- ment did not ceifeeve.i with his banifhment. The fame vin- dictive fp.rit ourfued him in foreign climes. No Britiih fub- -t was ev-.-ri permitted to viut him without the king's fign manual, which Mr. Morice was always obliged to folicit, not only for himfelf, but for every one of his family whom he carried abroad with him, for which the fees of office were vcrv high. When Mifhop Atterbury fir ft entered upon his banifh- iniint, Bruiicls was the place deftined for his refidence ; but, by the arts and inftigations of the Britifh minifters, he was .-'impelled to leave that place, and retire to Paris. There being foliciicd by the friends of the Pretender to enter into their negotiations, which he carefully avoided f B] ; that he might be th? more out of their reach, he changed his abode rMompelier in 1758 ; ana, after icfiding there about two -. .us, returned to Paris, where he died Feb. 15, 1731-2. Theaffiiclion which he fuftained by the death of his daugh- ter [c], in 1/29, was thought to have haftened his own dif- foluiion. v.-i? '..'/'en very early in " remove unmerited obloquy from the ' fone, 1J2.-,. It muft hae been " deaH. I (hould fmcetely rejoice if the '.t this time that Pope paid his " cloud which in other refpeftsftiUfliide^ v '..r vel fit t.) r.!,e bifliop in the " the charafter of this ingenious prelate " Tower. E';t v. < ;-,her fich a conver- " could be removed with equal facility i th.-t which Lit!) been pre- " and fuccefs. I am, dear Sir, your iietermiriatii.n of eveiy " SAMUEL BADCOCK.'* ' : man of common fenie, after eompjr- [B] In 1768, a firull quarto pamph- "The private correfpondence of Dr. 1 en a niiftake, " Francis Atterbury, bifhpp of Ro- i me- " cheder, and his friend?, in 17255" " - i o iie-t.rmine its origin, which proves at lealt that he had enter- i t noi:sde- cd into fome ncgociations. The au- 1 .cd forth thenticity of the letter is undeniable j is im- and is confirmed by two fac-fimile en- )!r. ] luvc r.mj-ly (1 ited mat- pravingr,'one in the quarto pamphlet, tact as they :;re recorded; and another in the " Epiftolary Oorre- l-.jvr i' to yov:r readers t.-> ':.tlo " Jpondence." .."us [c] See an affecting account of this ay think melancholy event in the firft volume o? My motives in ' l.iin his " J-piftolary Correfpondence." i ;u
 * bcins; curfediy afraid of being over- run with too much po-
 * iljte, may be *' faithful humble fervant.
 * lord Chederfield's antcJote with Jet was publifhed at Edinburgh, intituled^