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Rh Penion of twelve hundred Livres; or ele might have been imprion'd in the Batile upon Pretence that certain Strokes in his Tragedy of Cato had been dicover'd, which glanc'd at the Porter of ome Man in Power. Mr. Addion was rais'd to the Pot of Secretary of State in England. Sir Iaac Newton was made Warden of the Royal Mint. Mr. Congreve had a coniderable Employment. Mr. Prior was Plenipotentiary. Dr. Swift is Dean of St. Patrick in Dublin, and is more rever'd in Ireland than the Primate himelf. The Religion which Mr. Pope profees excludes him indeed from Preferments of ev'ry kind, but then it did not prevent his gaining two hundred Thouand Livres by his excellent Tranlation of Homer. I my elf aw a long Time in France the Author of Rhadamitus ready to perih for Hunger: And the Son of one of the greatet Men our Country ever gave Birth to, and who was beginning to run the noble Rh