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86 know that this great Man was accus'd of a Crime very unbecoming a Philoopher, I mean Bribery and Extortion. You know that he was entenc'd by the Houe of Lords, to pay a Fine of about four hundred thouand French Livres; to loe his Peerage and his Dignity of Chancellor. But in the preent Age, the English revere his Memory to uch a Degree, that they will carce allow him to have been guilty. In cae you hould, ak what are my Thoughts on this Head, I hall anwer you in the Words which I heard the Henry St Lord Bolingbroke ue On another Occaion. Several Gentlemen were peaking, in his Company, of the Avarice with which the late Duke of Marlborough had been charg'd, ome Examples whereof being given, the Lord Bolingbroke was appeal'd to, (who having been in the oppoite Party, might perhaps, without the Imputation of Indecency, have been allow'd to clear up that Matter:) "He was o great a Man, replied his Lordhip that I have forgot his Vices."