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ii another alternately patrons and protégès. A good undertanding may be erviceable on both ides. As to the author of thee tales, I did indeed make a light enquiry concerning him; and was told, if I recollect right, that his bones were mouldering in the churchyard at Weimar, or a place with ome uch barbarous name. His pirit, for ought I know or care, may be freezing in Saturn or frying in Mercury: or, perhaps, the German is baking in the Elyian fields along ide the Grecian Muus, encircled by a ring of baby ghots, crowding to hear his Lilliputian tales. But, whether alive or dead, a foreigner is never likely to come under articles with me; o I pay little regard to his birth, either in this or the other world, thee being matters quite out of my line. What is to our preent purpoe is imply this:—The Tranlator came and laid his bundle at my door; I was tempted to take the foundling in, and betow upon it a decent dres—which was certainly not cut out for a hroud. As my gentleman went off, he aid: ‘I hall lie for the preent under a total eclipe. Should the Reviewing Pack give their tongues merrily, and the public heartily join in the cry, I hall emerge, like Madam Luna, at the hooping and hallooing of the cannibals, from the jaws of the great dragon: and I may poibly be viible with another bantling or two of the ame breed in my arms!’

The rique, therefore, you ee, of this adventure is all my own. When a writer prints on his own account, you may plume yourelf in your impartiality, and execute rigorous jutice. But the cae is different now, and I only jut entreat you to ay a few civil things: hereafter you may find that one good turn deerves—

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