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252 auring the World, that upon enquiring trictly into this Report, I find it entirely groundles. I am alo to declare, that Altena was infected with contagious Ditempers at the Time of the Fire. The Hamburghers I am aured had no Hopitals, no Place were they might helter from the ret of the People, the old Men and the Women who died in their Sight. They therefore cannot in any manner be accus'd for refuing them Admittance. We are always to prefer the Preervation of our own City to the Safety of Strangers. I hall take the utmot care to have this Incident corrected in the New Edition of the Hitory of Charles the Twelfth, now printing at Amterdam, and the whole hall be et down agreeable to the mot crupulous Truth, which I always profes'd, and will prefer to all Things.

I alo heard, that in ome Weekly Papers, certain Letters of the Poet Roueau, (as injurious as ill written) have been inerted relating to the Tragedy of Zayre. This Author of everal Plays, all of which were his'd off the Stage, cenures a