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Rh are the leaders. Pray God bless you, my dear friend, and let us have a correspondency as long as I live. I am ever,

DUBLIN, MARCH 31, 1738. MY DEAR GOOD OLD FRIEND IN THE BEST AND WORST TIMES.

R. Richardson is come to town, and stays only for a wind to take shipping for Chester, from whence he will hasten to attend you as his governor in London. I have told you that he is a very discreet, prudent gentleman, and I believe your society can never have a better for the station he is in. I shall see him some time to day or to morrow morning, and shall desire, with all his modesty, that he press you to write me a long letter, if your health will permit; which I believe is better than mine, for I have a constant giddiness in my head, and what is more vexatious, as constant a deafness. I forget