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Rh The reversal of my lord Slane's outlawry makes a mighty noise through this kingdom: for aught I can remember, the destroying of our woollen manufactory did not cause so universal a consternation.

SIR,

AM very much obliged to you for the favour of a kind reproach you sent me, in a letter to Mr. Addison, which he never told me of till this day, and that accidentally; but I am glad at the same time, that I did not deserve it, having sent you a long letter, in return to that you was pleased to honour me with; and it is a pity it should be lost; for as I remember, it was full of the diei fabulas, and such particularities as do not usually find place in newspapers. Mr. Addison has been so taken up for some months in the amphibious circumstances of premier C to my lord Sunderland, and secretary of state for Ireland, that he is the worst