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To proceed to articles for which I can make a charge.-There is due to me upon the receipts for the diamonds, allowing thirteen hundred pounds paid for the fashion, 3000l.-Had the annuity of one hundred and twenty pounds been regularly paid, it would have amounted, for the fixteen years due, to 19201.-I expended, during my refidence with you, eight years receipts at the theatres, amounting to 9600l.-You received General Braddock's agency, which you had upon my account, four years, at three hundred pounds per annum, 12001.-The General likewife left you, upon his decease, concluding that we were married, full 7000l.-Lord Tyrawley's agency, which you procured through me, and of which you promised me the emoluments, brought you in at least five hundred pounds yearly, for seven years, which amounts to 35001. -General Mordaunt's, which you procured by the fame means, yielded you three hundred a year for fix years, 18001.-General Lafcelles's, the fame fum yearly for nine years, 27001.-You had of mine five coach and two faddle horfes, worth 2501. Together with a town chariot, quite new, which coft 147 1.-I paid for Champaigne, which, agreeable to your request, I wrote for to fend the Marquis of Granby, and which you you charged to his Lordship's account, 801.-I expended upon your brother, Captain Calcraft, at the academy, and for other neceffaries, 3501.—I likewife paid for cloaths, &c. for your fifter, during fix years, the fum of 4001.-I paid Mrs. Jordan's bill for real neceffaries, 1601.-I laid out in building a hot-house, ice houfe, &c. at Hollwood, upon the fuppofition that it would be mine and my daughter's after me, 4001.-To this, by way of concluding article, I may add, that I faved during the fire in Channel-row, your books, furniture, and thirteen hundred pounds in cafh, from the hands of the mob. Having thus enumerated the different items, I leave you, who are fo great an adept in figures, to draw the balance. You will foon fee, that it is greatly in my favour; and I request that you wil fend me a draft for the fum as foon as poffible, in order to conclude all tranfactions between us. I thought to have concluded here: but you must permit me just to add, that I have often been tempted to think there was not a fallen angel in all Pandemonium, to which I could not resemble living character. You*, however, in this fimi When this is confidered as the ebullition of refentment, from a person smarting under the most aggravated injuries, and which has long since subfided; due allowance, it is to be hoped, will be made for the feverity of it. litude, litude, tranfcend every other mortal; for you have pride equal to Lucifer, though you want his fpirit; to which are added the turbulence of Moloch, and the avarice of Mammon.-You fee I am ftill defirous of introducing you into good company. "It was very impolitic in you to fend your brother to me, to diffuade me from publishing this Letter. You supposed, that my regard for him would prevent me from expofing him in his relation; but no power on earth fhall prevent me from doing it. If I am amenable to the laws of my country, for making known, in this manner, my injuries, and your perfidy, carry your threats into execution. No martyr that ever suffered in the cause of religion, refigned themselves to their fate with greater chearfulness. Even death fhall not deter me. Before I conclude, I moft folemnly affure you, that neither Mr. Woodward nor Mr. Kelly, who I find are the marked objects of your refentment, ever faw, heard, or read a fingle line of this Letter; and that I have neither been abetted or affifted by any living creature; nor has any living perfon perused a line of it, but one gentleman, who took the trouble of reading four pages; when being tired of fo worthless a subject, he threw it down, in order to pursue his favourite ftudy of alchymy, with his refearches after the Philofopher's Stone. Yet let me again proteft to you, that every article which I am acquainted with, and which you are so apprehenfive about, is as fecurely locked in my breaft, as it is in your bofom-fo farewell.— "Read this, and then to breakfast with what ap"petite you may." ¡ LETTER CIII. May 4, 1785. As I can have no doubt, Madam, from the friendship you have ever profeffed for me, that you intereft yourself in whatever concerns me, I will now give you an account of the principal events relative to myself, that have taken place fince the commencement of the prefent year 1785. I fear the recital will, now and then, draw a figh from your fympathetic heart; yet, as you will fee from it that my profpects begin to brighten, and that the dawn of a tranquillity to which I had long been a stranger, already tinges the horizon of my future days, I trust the pleasure you receive from it will overbalance the pain it gives you. You must know then, that the emolument I reaped from the fale of the copy of my "Apology," as I was at the time greatly involved, went immediately, as far as it would go, towards fatisfying thofe creditors. Having thus drained myfelf of every guinea, I was unfortunately compelled to contract fresh debts, to fupport a wretched exift ence. I Among |