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thousand pounds with his wife which he has spent, and has liv'd several years parted from her, but the poor wife has been to interceed for him and throw the separation as her

own fault, before the Duke of M. He had sold his

regiment to Stutton, and, if his exchange cou'd have come soon enough, was to have gone commander in cheif of the Expedition into the West Indies, and Governor of Jamaca, for which he had a larger appointment then any before him, lo/. a day; some says he has been cunning enough to have a fund apropriated for the payment thereof for one year, and upon that he has found people that has advanced the mony ; he has the character of a man that will get mony at any rate, and that will spend it as fast as he get it. He is very well with all the great, but notwithstanding his ill usuage of the women will never be forgiven.

London, 20 Afay, 1709. Dear Brother,

.... Brigadeer Crowder of late has made some talk in the Coffee Houses upon a peice he has lately been pleased to print, he did me the favour to show it me some time agoe in manuscript, and I complymented him with desiring a coppy of it, that I might have the pleasure of reading it more than once, and that I might communicate the like sattisfaction to you by sending of it to Berlin. He told me it had the approbation of very ingenious men and good scholars, and his very good friends who had persuaded him to print it, and then you as he always esteem'd to be such shou'd be sure to have one. The day before yesterday he perform'd his promise but desired I wou'd not tell you directly who was the author, but recommend it to you with his most humble service, as from a friend of his. Yesterday came out this Tatler, and tho I reckon myself a little base after all the fine complyments he made me upon my great judgment, I can't forbear sending it you as a fine peice of rallery upon his elaborate work, which I can assure you he has not been a little proud of I han't seen him since to know if this Tatler has given him any mortification. I know

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