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DEAR DOCTOR,

ASK pardon for my mistake, and I send you the right paper. I am, in sickness and in health, ever your faithful friend, and obedient servant, H. ST. JOHN.

THURSDAY MORNING, TWO O'CLOCK, JAN. 5, 1712-13.

HOUGH I have not seen, yet I did not fail to write to lord treasurer. Non tua res agitur, dear Jonathan. It is the treasurer's cause ; it is my cause; it is every man's cause, who is embarked on our bottom. Depend upon it, that I never will neglect any opportunity of showing that true esteem, that sincere affection, and honest friendship for you, which fill the breast of your faithful friend, BOLINGBROKE. TO