My dear Lord,
THOUGH I have had the honour and pleasure of your lordship’s friendship and correspondence for twenty years, during which time I have been in the habit of occasionally furnishing you with an account of what was doing here in the literary world, I
- ↑ As my noble friend’s name appears in the List of Subscribers prefixed to the Miscellaneous Papers, &c. here examined, I am authorized by him to say, that he subscribed to that work at the request of a gentleman who furnished him with a splendid Prospectus of it, which he carried from hence to Ireland; and that if Lord C. had known as much of it as he now does, he would not have given either his name or his money to the publication.