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Rh much valuable information has been given to the British public. Mr. Hayley and Lord Strangford were the first to introduce the minor productions of Camoens to our notice.

The care and labour I took in bringing together the materials for the Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Camoens, have been more than repaid by the honours which have been bestowed upon me by Her Most Faithful Majesty, in conferring upon me the orders of Christ and the Tower and Sword. But these marks of approbation were not the only gratifications I received; for to that work I am indebted for the honour of having become known to your Grace; for the kind attention shewn to me in Paris by Dom José Maria de Souza, the Editor of the splendid edition of the Lusiad; and for my acquaintance, either personal or by correspondence, with many other distinguished Portuguese; amongst whom I must not neglect particularly to mention my friend the Chevalier de Almeida Gar a fellow-labourer in the field of Literature, and who, as one of her modern Poets, and skilled in her ancient language